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Visiting rites

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Lucy O'Hagan

Tea and sympathy
She made tea in chipped cups

Home visits show patients in the richness of life, and make a doctor more human, writes Lucy O’Hagan

See how they adore their pets and make floral arrangements for poorly neighbours, feel the grit of poverty and the hush of chiffoniers on Persian rugs