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The Guinea Pig Club

The Guinea Pig Club is an exclusive drinking club with gruesome initiation rights. You have to have been a WWII pilot, cheated death and have a disfigurement to prove it. The president of the club was Archibald McIndoe, a plastic surgeon who pioneered experimental surgery in order to rebuild their faces and hands to give them a chance of a normal life. The Guinea Pig Club's legacy could hold the key to trauma recovery today.

English
  • Originally Aired July 29, 2009
  • Runtime 59 minutes
  • Production Code b0074q2f
  • Network Scotland BBC Four
  • On Other Sites Official Website
  • Notes Is a season finale
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