The line was long with residents in scrubs coming off the night shift, looking as bleary as I did.

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Dr Roger Duckitt, a specialist registrar in acute medicine in Worthing, Sussex was knocked off his motorbike on the way home from a night shift by a car pulling out from parked traffic.

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So fresh off an all-day shift, he barreled down the highway and battled the blaze all night with thousands of others.

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