‘Waiting for your child to die is not an option’: A GP’s fight to save her daughter
When cancer scientist Matt Dun and his GP wife Phoebe discovered their daughter had an inoperable brain tumour, they put their training to work
On a hot Saturday afternoon in February 2018, Matt and Phoebe Dun were sitting in a hospital corridor, waiting for their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Josie, to wake up.
She’d just had a general anaesthetic and a brain scan at Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital. That morning, Josie had been falling over and struggling to move her right arm properly.
