.but shocking figures uncovered by labour yesterday show some patients are suffering agonising waits of as many as 541 days to begin treatment.. written reports, including local media accounts, professional medical papers and internal emails were also examined.. worried about how helen was doing after doctors performed surgery on her colon the same day he was admitted, robert, whose condition stabilized, had a simple request for his nurse:. embolization “cuts off the blood supply to a certain part of the body,” according to the national institutes of health..
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