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60 SECONDS That Changed My Life…

DATE: March 27, 1967 11.40am

NAME: NORMAN SWAN

FEAT: As a teenager, the future voice of medical common sense was involved in a terrifying accident that taught him about the human capacity to endure.

“TRAUMA FORCES YOU TO DISCOVER WHAT YOU CAN COPE WITH AND COME THROUGH”

WHEN I WAS 14, I was a member of a youth club in Glasgow. For the Easter long weekend we’d gone to the south of England and

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