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Oct 2017
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Dr Google; Sexual orientation and the NH...

Bbc Radio 4
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<p>GPs have been told to ask about their patients' sexual orientation as NHS England plans to record this data for everyone using the service over the age of 16. Dr Google - are doctors' noses really being put out of joint by patients searching their symptoms on the internet to come up with their own diagnoses? Hypermobility is being double jointed and fle ... Show More
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