AN award-winning medical secretary is just what any doctor would order... and Karen Lewis fitted the bill after being named top student in the country after a Royal Society of Arts exam.

Karen, 18, of Blackburn, beat thousands of other students to the bronze award for her medical shorthand typewriting.

She sat the exam as part of her Blackburn College studies towards a medical secretarial diploma.

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