There’s never a good time to be given a terminal cancer diagnosis. But for Professor Kevin Mortimer, the news came on his daughter’s 11th birthday.
The respiratory medicine consultant at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool had been suffering with back pain for several weeks, which he at first put down to a recent long-haul flight to New Zealand.
When the pain did not improve, he was referred for scans at his own hospital.
Professor Mortimer was midway through doing one of his ward rounds when he got a call from a colleague, who asked him to come upstairs to talk about his results.
There,
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