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My ‘virus’ turned out to be arthritis

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

‘Hallo! You was callin’ us about appoint…MENT!’ said the lady at the scanning unit of my local hospital in broken English.

Nothing wrong with that. It’s just that when I received a letter bearing the logo of a private company informing me of the details of my forthcoming MRI, I got all excited, anticipating efficiency.

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