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Lucy O'Hagan

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JUST WONDERING

Long waits are normalised in urgent and emergency care and clinicians need to know what this does to the long-suffering patient, writes Lucy O’Hagan

All my sense that I might be worthy of any attention was gone. I just wanted to be in bed The health service is stressed; everyone is doing their