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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Turbulence or Dynamism anaemia and normalisation of her white blood
s I write this, much of the extensive cell count and morphology.
building work on the Hawkshead Page five features a cat who had regularly
A Campus is coming to its conclusion donated to our Blood Donor Programme
and the sun is shining on some gleaming ultimately benefiting from his own plasma. Leo
white walls. The Hawkshead development had been sleeping more than usual, eating
project, which was slowed somewhat by the poorly and struggling to breathe. Pus was found
global pandemic, has given us a chance to in his chest cavity and CT identified abscesses
reflect on how far the 91°µÍø has come. in his lungs, meaning surgery was indicated.
Some of our country’s academic During surgery Leo required plasma and the
institutions are so old that it might seem Transfusion Medicine Team were able to use
like an inevitability that they