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teasel
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posted March 08, 2013 03:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9917862/Professor-dies-of-lung-cancer-after-doctors-dismiss-illness-as-purely-psychological.html

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Well the telegraph csn be a little lax with facts, but i have heard ofof plenty of such mistakes. We tend to forget doctors suffer from ego and imperfection like the rest of us..

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posted March 08, 2013 08:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I had a woman gp who was the same age as me, and had a hard time accepting that some pains i had could be premenapause...i was "too young"! But she duly agreed t my request for tests.

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