Peter Bruggen

“As a teenager, my father, a general practitioner in Burnley, had taken his siblings swimming in the Sri Lankan sea instead of to church: young brother Tom died. When I was 6 he helped me to swim, and I continued passionately (regularly 2.5k for Marie Curie Swimathon each year). Unquestioningly I went to Edinburgh as a medical student at age 17. I …