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To Romania, withCdetermination: his dream was to go to Antarctica. Instead he has spent his life challenging totalitarianism, and its aftermath. Patrick Colquhoun talks to Mary Lean.(Profile)(Brief biography)
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For A Change
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December 1, 2006
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YEARS AGO, when he was living in Oxford, Patrick Colquhoun rode his bike at full speed into the back of a truck. He went on down to the river to ride along the bank directing a boat in a sculling race. Two hours later he had an x-ray, and discovered he had broken his neck.
Call him bloody-minded or heroic, Patrick Colquhoun is not easily deterred. He takes his motto--'persevere unto the end'--from his great-grandfather, who spent nine years in the Arctic looking for John Franklin's lost expedition of 1848. Whether in love or in fighting corruption in Romania's hospitals, he doesn't believe in giving up.
Colquhoun is Director of Medical Support in Romania (MSR) a ...
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