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My hunt for a doctor took a horror movie turn

29 March 2025

9:00 AM

29 March 2025

9:00 AM

My American guest went down with a cough he could not shift and, after a week of protesting that he couldn’t be ill because he was fully vaccinated for everything, he asked me to take him to a doctor.

This was an even more complicated request than his desire to call Ubers, and so we set off in my car to drive around the wilds of West Cork in search of medical assistance.

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