**By Glen Williams
The RPA doctor is determined to beat the aggressive form of brain cancer that threatens his life.**
Dr Chris O’Brien is blessed with a manner able to convey an instant feeling of peace, ease and welcome. It’s the same manner he’s used through the years to comfort and transform the lives of countless patients — lives broken by the devastating news that they have a terminal illness. We’ve seen it for ourselves since he became the face of the Nine Network’s medical real-life program RPA.
It is little wonder he rose through the ranks to become one of the nation’s most sought-after and respected head and neck cancer surgeons — spoken of in the same reverential tones as the late, brilliant heart surgeon Dr Victor Chang.
From the moment Chris swings wide the door to his beautiful Sydney home to Woman’s Day, there is an overwhelming sense of calm, that the people who reside in here only know how to love, laugh and take the best from life.
For the full and exclusive story, see this week’s Woman’s Day (on sale Oct 13).
Never Say Die, by Dr Chris O’Brien, HarperCollins, rrp $32.99, out now.
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