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Told I was DYING but my doc was LYING

Looking around the waiting room at the very sick patients, I shivered.

I can’t wait to get this over with, I thought.

I’d had pneumonia and, when a blood test came back as slightly abnormal, my GP wanted me to see a haematologist.

So now, I was about to see Dr Farid Fata.

‘Dr Fata comes highly recommended,’ I’d told my husband, Michael.

A technician in an emergency department, I’d done my research.

And Dr Fata, a haematologist and oncologist, had a

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