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Curses, porridge and other cases stranger than fiction

Almost crying young surgeon in medical mask [Courtesy]

There is never a dull moment for a surgeon in the village as there are happy and crazy hilarious days. Some border on the criminal, other patients are just mischievous, some are prisoners of their beliefs. 

Take the octogenarian who consented to amputation but could not allow the trimming of his overgrown beard that had his mouth under ‘lockdown’.

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