So the knowledge was there, sitting at the back of my mind, waiting to come true, when the doctor told me.

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"The doctor told me I can't really make it any worse and it's part of my competitive nature to go out and push it as far as I can, " he said.

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Then the doctor called for me and told me to pull myself together, I was a senior rank.

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Mann told me the doctor at that site simply rounded all this readings to the nearest multiple of 10.

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The tribunal heard that the doctor told the woman that she was "pretty" and said "you remind me of my little sister back home".

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And yet, walking around a hospital ward, a doctor told me that as well as malaria, pneumonia and all the other serious health challenges, there was another emerging problem - obesity.

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What does it mean that my brilliant doctor brother, who told me he would live forever, followed suit and died at the age of 46 on his 17th wedding anniversary?

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The police officers sat the little girl down next to me on the bench and told her to wait, most likely I thought, for the same doctor.

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What I really wanted in the middle of the night was to use my smartphone not to Google, but to actually talk to a doctor, who could have told me whether it was okay to wait til morning or if I needed to go to the ER stat.

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