A sad little article, "On the Trail of the Vanishing Doctor", in the Independent:
But the police have a problem. In the fortnight since Dr Stevens vanished, more than 366 others have also been reported missing in Greater Manchester. "We want to dedicate as much resources as we can to him," the spokeswoman said, "but we've got thousands of missing people."
None of them received the same level of media attention as Dr Stevens, because they did not have such high-profile jobs or apparently comfortable family lives. Many turned up again within hours. Some did not, and joined the 210,000 who go missing in Britain every year. The people they left behind are experiencing, like those who know Dr Stevens, the difficulty of going on as before.