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Interview with Belfast Telegraph: ‘Podcast takes a scalpel to our medical past’

/ News / By Ian Miller

The Epidemic Belfast team were delighted to feature in a 2-page spread in the weekend edition of Belfast Telegraph (5 February 2022).

A link to the article can be found here: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/epidemic-belfast-podcast-takes-a-scalpel-to-our-medical-past-41413686.html.

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