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Dr Norman Swan opens up on coping with trauma after his daughter’s accident, covering COVID and the question that ‘stopped his world’ – ABC News
In a wide-ranging interview, the face of the ABC’s coronavirus coverage, Dr Norman Swan reflects on 40 years in health journalism, the particular challenges of…
It’s an image that’s haunted Dr Norman Swan for years.
Bicycle helmets hanging on a wall in a shop in Italy where he hired a couple of bikes during a family holiday in 2016.
His then wife was seriously ill with heart disease and couldn’t walk far, so they’d decided to hire bikes, including an electric one, for the short trip across a carpark to the beach.
“I remember looking at the helmets on the wall thinking ‘should I get a helmet?'” recalls Swan.
“But I thought ‘we’re not going on the open road,…
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