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It was 9 am on a pale autumn Monday morning in Dr James Fennimore’s private patient consulting suite. Dr Fennimore had been at work since 7 am. He liked an early start, liked the walk to work through Regent’s Park from his stucco Regency house in Chester Terrace. It was the point in the day when he became free, free to think, free to sniff without being offered a handkerchief, free to slurp his tea without being hectored, and free to remember a time long ago when the nurse that he had loved smiled at him in the morning instead of scowling.
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Waxman, J. (2012). Fish Ate My Cancer. In: The Elephant in the Room. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-895-9_3
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