THE LIFE OF BRYAN: Actor, GP, advocate: Will the real Dr Betty please stand up?

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THE LIFE OF BRYAN: Actor, GP, advocate: Will the real Dr Betty please stand up?

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Bryan Betty’s early medical career took a detour into dramatics. Here he features in the Lifestyle section of Australian medical publication [image: Medical Observer]

Specialist GP Bryan Betty talks about his stoical mother, Catholic school education, and stints in improv theatre and mining-town doctoring. Alan Perrott draws together the threads between these experiences and the leadership for which Dr Betty is renowned

Bryan Betty is the “yes man”. Dr Betty says he finds challenges hard to resist, especially when they take him to interesting places and, in the abs