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Heather’s ovarian cyst story
When Heather was 23 she started experiencing pain in the left-hand side of her abdomen. Every other month. When the pain got worse she went to see a doctor, who insisted that it was kidney stones. Then followed a saga of missing scan results, emergency surgery and the question: could Heather’s ovary have been saved if someone had listened sooner?
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