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Why do patients not receive their test results?

The nurse is gentle with me and tells me I perhaps need to drink more water. But ‘Dr Google’ does not pull his punches. Blood in the urine? I have cancer without a doubt and likely as not will be dead within a year.
Posted 06 April 2016
 
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