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Jarrid “Jay” Collins – What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

Jarrid “Jay” Collins, Lieutenant Governor of Florida and former Army Special Forces combat medic, recounts being wounded in the arm during an attack in Afghanistan. He describes performing a partial fasciotomy on himself in the battlefield and, in doing so, saves his own arm.


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