Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Our doctor’s surgery is beginning to look like a Category A penitentiary

The doors are plastered in notices warning people off. Are they too frightened to see sick people at all?

You can't help feeling the last thing they want to see in doctor's surgeries these days is sick people [Photo: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty]
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