Atrial fibrillation is an irregular heart rhythm that in my case was very fast. I would have these episodes once, twice, sometimes three times a week and they lasted anywhere between 12 and 24 hours. And so I became a patient, essentially. Whilst he was working, I was seeing cardiologists. I was taking medications. But my threshold for illness is clearly a lot lower than my counterparts. When I qualified around 15 years ago now, three months into the job, I was eating hospital food - which is like sloppy canteen food,. There's nothing abnormal about that. That is a quote, quote, unquote normal diet, right?

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