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Hello. Now don't forget, don't let me have to remind you again.

Even as a seven-year-old lying in my bedroom with severe stomach

pains, I knew exactly what my mother's warning meant. The hall and stairs would have to

be hoovered, every touchable surface dusted, and I'd be forced to clamber from under my warm

blankets and made to stand shivering by the side of the bed while my mother

energetically changed sheets and pillowcases. Our doctor, no doubt like other doctors in the days

when house calls were mandatory, was invariably brisk.

Severe indigestion, severe indigestion, he barked as he scribbled an ant acid prescription.

Well two weeks later, as I lay in hospital uncomfortably close to death with peritonitis,

my father leant over my bed and caution me about the entire medical profession.

It's a conspiracy against the laity, he told me remember that Lawrence well that phrase which I now know my dad

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