Are you a dinosaur or simply endangered?

Abstract

My grandmother Gladys was a dinosaur. Not a real one, of course. She passed her professional sell by date long before she was really ready. Granny Glad was a midwife who did home deliveries in England in the early part of the last century. The final event that put her into professional extinction was the registration of midwives. She had a choice to register or get a golden handshake. She took the latter.