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

The challenge to bridge the gap between what we know and what we aim for draws me towards medicine. Reading about new advances, such as induced pluripotent stem cells, demonstrates the exciting and on-going intellectual challenges of a medical career, something which is fundamental in my desire to s

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