Katie Denial was walking to her car after a family funeral when she suddenly became so breathless she had to lie down in the street, literally gasping for air.
When she saw her GP a few days later, she was told that the 20-minute episode was most likely a panic attack.
Over the following weeks Katie, then 24, became increasingly breathless and exhausted, so returned to her GP.
This time she was told she had a chest infection and was prescribed antibiotics. When those didn’t work, she was told she had asthma and given inhalers.
When she failed to respond to these, her GP
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