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        When I was a child in the 1960s, my grandmother, who had been born when Victoria was Queen, liked to complain about specialists.

Medicine was changing, and she was accustomed to having a General Practitioner who not only attended to all of her needs, he came to her home to do so. 
       In the 1960s, the role of the GP was changing and referrals to specialists were a new part of medical practice.  
My Nanna thought the idea of an ear-nose-and-throat doctor was ridiculous, a...

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