There may not be much for indemnifiers to celebrate, but one well trailed change for the better now has a start date. It’s progress towards the statute books does illustrate the increasingly unwieldly legislative environment that medicine and dentistry are trapped in.
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Dentists and football. There are the sofa experts. Those that kick about in the park with their children. The five a siders. The Sunday league players. And then there is Heimir Hallgrimsson.
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