Medicine

[SECTION:why]Medicine as a vocation is unmatched in its net benefit to society. I experienced this first hand struggling with bouts of psoriasis as a young boy. Seeing GPs and specialists in the hope of finding a successful treatment was difficult, but it led me to reflect afterwards. How had I inhe

Pursuing Medicine will allow me to treat patients and contribute to the NHS’s crucial work, but also impact the future of the field through research or teaching. The ability to have an impact on healthcare in different ways is what makes me want to study Medicine. By arranging placements in differen

Society's romanticisation of the medical field ushered in me the ambition to become a doctor from an early age. It did not arrive through careful introspection but rather by naïve assumptions too removed from reality. A chance reading of Six Months in Sudan made me question my beliefs. So, over my h