Going the extra mile: health care for marathon runners.
At last year's London Marathon, St John Ambulance (SJA) volunteers treated almost 6,200 casualties from among more than 35,000 runners. In this article, emergency nurse Hazel Mortimer, who regularly works as a volunteer emergency nurse with the SJA, describes her experiences at this year's event and her expectations of the 2012 Olympics.
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