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WorldLink: The centenarian doctor

Ashley Byrne
November 17, 2017

Doctor Bill Frankland remembers Europe's catastrophic flu pandemic of 1918, narrowly survived a Japanese POW camp in World War II, worked with the Alexander Fleming on penicillin, and treated Saddam Hussein. And at 105, he's not ready to retire yet.

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