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Daily Mirror
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Hollie Bone

Music-loving intensive care doctor put smile on patients' faces with guitar skills

Music-loving critical care consultant Tom Owen gives it strum to put a smile on the face of an Oasis fan.

And Liam Sutcliffe is just one of dozens of seriously ill patients the 50-year-old has proved the perfect tonic for since he decided to start taking his guitar to work three years ago.

Tom, an anaesthetist from Kendall, Cumbria, said: “I get a smile out of them, I like to think it’s all part of the rehabilitation process. If I could give up medicine and go round the country playing for patients, I would do it at the drop of a hat.

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