abstract:Mark Porter (born 1962 in Newcastle-under-Lyme) is a consultant anaesthetist and chairman of the British Medical Association. He has been a consultant anaesthetist at University Hospital Coventry since 1998, specialising in obstetric and paediatric anaesthesia.
Delaysin identifyingconditionssuch ascancermaymean that apatient'sillnessreaches the stage where surgeryordrugscannot save them, DrMarkPortertold the Guardian.