My hero
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[email protected] For the past 28 years I have talked about him, usually when people asked about the patients I treated as a hospital doctor or when asked about heroes. He was an inauspicious man, wrinkled by the years and with lungs which bore witness to decades of smoking. Late one night and after a long weekend on-call, I received a message from admissions telling me of his chest infection and asking where I wanted to send him. Wanting to reserve my acute beds for the more diagnostically challenging cases, I had him admitted to the geriatric ward at the rear of the Lagan Valley Hospital where I was doing my pre-registration house officer rotation in 1981.
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