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From lipid rage to toilet rapture: A tale of two patient letters

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18 June 2025
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The highs and lows of being a patient are sometimes communicated to the GP by an appreciative letter, and sometimes by one of searing complaint.

I happen to have two such illustrative examples written by the same individual.

See if you agree with me that she appears to have developed her epistolary exposition to a near art form.

Dear Doctor,

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