I WAS sorry to hear that Derek Puttick had to wait 23 hours for a doctor to visit his sick wife. However, as she was 77 years old and obviously quite ill, he would have been fully justified in dialling 999, in which case an ambulance crew would have probably been with her within half an hour.
Graham Cribb, Branksome Wood Road, Bournemouth
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