Fate Averted V
A Bachelor of Medicine was enough to practice medicine legally. Watson bought an Edinburgh practice, which slowly flourished. A few years later he married and a decade after that he and his wife took a holiday in London to attend a medical seminar.
"Is that Mr. Sherlock Holmes?" his wife asked at the Paddington train station.
"Who?"
"The famous detective!" she exclaimed impatiently.
Watson looked the man over. Judging from haggard appearance – and rumors of his drug use – he was certainly working himself to death. Watson shook his head but as they returned north, he forgot all about Sherlock Holmes.