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The ECG technician came out of her room and bellowed a name at us: Andrew Parkinson!. There was silence, as we all looked at each other sheepishly. Apart from myself, all the other people sitting in the queue were elderly women, some of them from the wards, and wearing dressing gowns. Andrew Parkinson!! she shouted again, this time fixing me with an accusatory look. John Launer? I said guiltily. She looked again at the form in her hand. Bloody hell, she said, I've already done Andrew Parkinson. She disappeared, and came back a minute later with another form. John Launer! she bellowed