The reason – yet another botched data transfer between spreadsheets, in a manual amalgamation of non-standard sheets from multiple sources. Last week, the Curse of Excel struck the health service again, this time culling a cohort of trainee anesthetists by marking them as unappointable whether they'd aced their applications or not.
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