Roberta Gianfortoni, a dean at the Harvard School of Public Health, has visited Cuba to tour its medical system and says doctors there know how to do many procedures but that doesn't mean those procedures are actually available.

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All items needed for medical purposes will be permitted on the tour (e.g. wheelchairs, electric scooters, glucose tablets, EpiPens, etc.).

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That led to the stint as medical groupie on the Medicine Ball Caravan rock tour, his involvement in a half-baked concert film that came out in 1971 and then his first trip to India.

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Wallace, who sat out Ireland's summer tour to the United States on medical advice after suffering head and facial injuries last season, is also high in his praise for the new Ulster coaching team, headed by Brian McLaughlin.

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The 6ft 4ins Welshman has enjoyed his first Lions tour, although it will soon be back to his medical studies, with exams in August, then the final two years of a five-year course that he will spread over the next four years as he bids to become Doctor Roberts.

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Medical officer Dr Peter Gregory was appointed in the middle of that last Ashes tour, amid an outcry that Flintoff and Darren Gough were sent home without playing, and the selectors relied on his judgement in picking the squad.

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An upcoming concert tour also had to be canceled because of the 65-year-old singer's worsening medical condition, according to an ABC News radio report.

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