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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Medicine is a game of risk, and few have seen the cost of getting it wrong as clearly as one group of boys. Whispers, a terrifying newspaper headline and then a stark message: a deadly virus is in their school.
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0:00.0 | The telegraph, podcasts. |
0:07.0 | There are times when we have the choice to take one of two paths, |
0:11.0 | left or right, stop or go. |
0:14.0 | And that decision, that one moment, can change the course of our life |
0:18.0 | and the course of someone else's. |
0:21.0 | Like the short minute it takes for a doctor to prescribe a treatment |
0:24.0 | and inject it into a patient's arm. |
0:27.0 | Decisions like that happen all the time. |
0:30.0 | And once they're made, that's it. |
0:32.0 | The course of history is set. |
0:35.0 | Adrian was 15 in 1985. |
0:37.0 | He went to the Lord Mayor Trilor School in Hampshire. |
0:41.0 | That's a boarding school for children with physical disabilities. |
0:44.0 | People call it Trilor's. |
0:46.0 | Adrian has dark hair and big oval eyes, |
0:49.0 | and he was a shy kid with hemophilia. |
0:52.0 | Like a lot of boys with his condition, |
0:54.0 | the doctors at school were like his family. |
0:57.0 | All doctors at God said, you hear those, |
0:59.0 | and they were our heroes. |
1:01.0 | They were socialised with us. |
1:02.0 | They played table tennis with us. |
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