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Mark Brown: A Doctors Reflections on Dialysis, Dying and Faith
Sometimes in medicine, it's not just considering what you could do for a patient - it's also about what you should do. For renal physician Professor Mark Brown, this is how he looks at the decision of putting a patient on dialysis. It's not for everyone, he insists.
In this conversation with Karl Faase, Mark traces the road from a working-class Sydney home, shaped by a sister with profound disabilities, to the forefront of kidney medicine. He talks candidly about a lonely year in a freezing Nottingham garage, a first marriage he wasn't ready for, a chance seat on a plane that led him to his…
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