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Medicine's age problem

The Herald Society: Why is the NHS so bad at handling child patients as they become adolescents and then adults, asks Karin Goodwin

Who can forget the angst of being a teenager? It's a time of intense change - both physical and emotional - of re-defining boundaries, rebelling against parents and coping with hormones, peer pressure and the wider world while struggling towards adulthood.