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  • CARLOS FRESNEDA

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Updated Thursday, April 9, 2020 - 02:24

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"What do you mean I have a stain on my left lung? Have I caught pneumonia?" Winston Churchill asked his doctor, Charles Wilson, in a bad way, as the smoke from his cigars filled the air in the bedroom. A second doctor, Geoffrey Marshall, came to certify his state of health and was even more severe with the Prime Minister: "You must stop working for fifteen days!" "How dare you tell me this, with the war at the critical moment?" Churchill replied

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