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108-Year-Old Irish Woman Has Been to a Doctor Exactly Once

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
August / September 2017

August 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment

In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph shortly following her 108th birthday in July, County Antrim woman Maud Nicholl (left, with Telegraph reporter Donna Deaney) revealed that she has only been to see the doctor once since 1909. “I don’t feel my age in the slightest, in fact I have never felt my age,” she said. “I have never had any illnesses. I went to see the doctor once … [Read more...] about 108-Year-Old Irish Woman Has Been to a Doctor Exactly Once

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