"It just doesn't fit downtown or feel like it's responsible, " said Charlotte Dixon, a third-generation Midlander who works in the billing department of a doctor's office and started an online petition last month opposing the skyscraper.

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However, a Department of Health spokeswoman said there was no doctor shortage issue at Pontefract and that the MoD had told her it had received no approach from the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

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In a 2008 episode of BBC Three's Doctor Who Confidential, Mr Cusick visited the BBC props department and explained his inspiration for the design of the Daleks, which has changed very little over the years.

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The way things work at present, they're taken to their local District General Hospital accident and emergency department, where they're sometimes met at the door by a junior doctor with little experience of their condition.

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Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, one of the study authors and director of the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, says it's unethical for a doctor to suggest a medication that hasn't been proven to work.

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