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This is a room of passed time and mixed emotions. People sit and wait, read and wait, talk and wait...wait passively, wait nervously, wait impatiently. There is a rhythm of overlapping waits, a time-lapse of seats filled and vacated. Different people and different stories enter the waiting room and leave clutching pharmacy paper bags. Chipped paint and plaster behind the chairs records many prescriptions worth of waiting.

Back inside the pharmacy confines I briefly spoke to Kelvin Murray in the department's administration office. Here they are responsible for the control of stock within the pharmacy - everything from green biros through to cytotoxic drugs.

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