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William Ton

'Have faith': boxer put trust in doctors before death

George Diamond's father Vic begged an emergency doctor to give his son a CT scan or MRI. (HANDOUT/DIAMOND FAMILY)

On the way home from hospital for lingering headaches, George Diamond told his dad he was being overprotective and needed to have more faith in the doctors treating him.

Two months later, the 18-year-old boxer died at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne from bleeding near his brain, with an autopsy revealing an older subdural haemorrhage.

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