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NI health: Consultants and specialist doctors begin strike action
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Doctor wrote off my hair loss and dizziness as just being a tired mum
Joe McFaddenHealth reporter Rose Stokes Rose Stokes is a freelance journalist and mother of two After giving birth to her second child, Rose Stokes was exhausted all the time. “I couldn’t really do anything more than the bare minimum in terms of looking after my kids. I’d put them down at seven and have to…
