His background in providing emergency medical care, Pat Brown figures, is a good foundation for knowing when that medical care won’t help.
Brown, whom Calhoun County voters first chose as coroner in the elections of 2006, is running for the post again this year — the first election season in which he’ll have no opponent.
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