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It is a sunny day in Norfolk and Peter Prinsley, the first Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, is about to look up the nostrils of a 90-year-old man. But before he can get out his microscope to look for the cause of the man’s chronic nosebleeds, his patient has something to say.
“Congratulations on your appointment!” says Tony Wilkin, as he lies down on the examination bed in Prinsley’s consultation room at James Paget university hospital in Great Yarmouth.