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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Paul Britton

The doctor who changed his Volvo into an ambulance - and changed Britain

Tributes are being paid to 'one of the founding fathers' of modern-day hospital intensive care after his death in retirement.

The name of Dr David Morrison - and all of his many life-saving achievements and innovations - still proudly adorn a brass plaque on the wall of a corridor at North Manchester General Hospital.

It was at the hospital, then Crumpsall, that Dr Morrison first laid the origins of intensive and critical care medicine as we know it today, saving countless lives across Manchester in the process. Dr Morrison, who died aged 89 after Christmas on December 28, has been described as a clinician of 'national significance'.

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