Max Passes Toughest Test of All ; As the Post Launches the Red Balloon Appeal Campaign for Birmingham Children's Hospital, Health Correspondent Emma Brady Met a Young Patient Who has Survived Against the Odds

Birmingham Post › May 15, 2007

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Like many teenagers Max McPherson is taking his GCSEs this week - but the fact he is taking them at all is truly remarkable.

After an accident at his Solihull home in June 2005 left him with 90 per cent burns, he is lucky to be alive.

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Max Passes Toughest Test of All ; As the Post Launches the Red Balloon Appeal Campaign for Birmingham Children's Hospital, Health Correspondent Emma Brady Met a Young Patient Who has Survived Against the Odds

Max is the first person in Britain to have survived such horrific injuries, and the only person in the world since 1975 to do so.

Aside from severe scarring, he lost several fingers and some of the...

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