Denise started suffering from heart palpitations so went straight to her local GP.
A Renfrewshire hospital has been likened to a 'war zone' and 'Third World country' after a patient with a leaking heart waited '16 hours to see a doctor'.
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"I don’t really think you understand it until it happens to you. You expect to see this in a Third World country, not Scotland.”