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Fans of the excellent sitcom 'Early Doors' will remember the episode where Duffy realises that the spark is going out of the...

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Anonymous,
01 Dec 2009
A surgeon once told me that a patient who demands 'total health' deserves a 'total work up'. On the menu would be a triple H enema (high, hot and helluvalot), an amuse bouche biopsy, a main course of mouth-watering probing followed by a coffee and a mint chocolate stool sample. You can then roll the lab results into a fat cigar and decadently declare NAD, sending them jelly legged back to their GPs. But as GPs know 'NAD doesn't mean health'.

Come in Mr Jones, how did you get on with the surgeon? What's that? No better? Oh dear....let me find my lube....
Kev
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