This is an ABC podcast.

The way to think about your brain is that it's very vulnerable.

And if you had to pick an organ, some guys would say it's the second most part.

If you had to pick an organ, which is most important to you.

Right.

I think, I mean, it's who you are.

Yeah.

And so if that's damaged, then your whole experience of life is altered.

So I was in third year, Newcastle University, halfway through medical school.

This is Lewis.

And I'd just done four weeks

placement in a place called St. Lucia and South Africa. And this is Kate. It was a beautiful,

sunny Friday afternoon. Just finished work for the week. And on these particular days,

several years apart and on separate continents, they were both in great moods. They were happy and excited

for what lay ahead. It was the first day of kind of backpacking around South Africa and Zambia

after I'd finished my placement. And it was 35 degrees. I had a long weekend coming up. It was

just like, I was just so rare to go home and start my long weekend.

And I got the higher car, the cheapest one I could as a uni student. I drove five hours to a really cool place to go hiking.

I was riding my bike.

I was probably going about 15 kilometres per hour.

I was trying to cross an intersection that was part of suburbia.

I was driving to the hostel, a beautiful hostel,

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