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Sandra Hempel is a medical journalist who has written for a wide variety of both popular newspapers and magazines and specialist publications, from the Mail on Sunday and The Times to Nursing Times and BMA News. She has also worked for organizations such as the Department of Health/NHS, the Royal College of GPs and the Royal College of Nursing. Her book THE MEDICAL DETECTIVE – which tells the story of one doctor’s fight to stop the killer cholera epidemics that devastated nineteenth century Britain – won the Medical Journalists’ Association book award and the British Medical Association book award for the public understanding of science.