conversations about medicine and life

Dear Melanie (Part One)

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Mike Riddell

travel policyDear Mr Riddell,

We would like to thank you for sending your claim form and supporting documentation into our office for our consideration, and apologise for the delay in our response to you.

We would also like to advise you that we have assessed your claim today; however, in order for us to complete the assessment of your claim, we require the following information from you:

  1. Written confirmation from travel agent/airline/hotel outlining the amount they reimbursed you for every cancellation cost;
  2. The first consultation note from GP/doctor related to your sickness condition.

In the meantime if you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 Kind Regards,

 The Travel Claims Team

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Sex education in schools: a student’s view

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Molly Wootton

stork and baby

I am 17, and lucky enough to have been brought up in a household where sex education was readily available. When I asked where babies came from I didn’t get some long-winded story about a stork, or a cabbage patch. I got the truth. This openness meant that I didn’t have to rely on puberty education at intermediate, or sex education at high school, but the fact is that our education system is many students’ only resource for learning about sex and our ever-changing bodies. However this power is not fully utilised. The curriculum still tends to shy away from some important aspects of sex education.

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