i studied up tho first year undergrad biology, physics and chemistry. Then i sat the exam with all the science grat and i came the tot three % in the country. And within about half an hour of my results coming out, i got my interviews to med school. So that was quite amazingn i'd intended to go a few years before, but i thought, there's no way i can go to medschool with four children aged five and under. But am i cant have thought, if you're ever going to do it, this thing that you always wanted to do, do, it now. It doesn't actually have to be a science degree. The things that really interested me
Roopa Farooki is a doctor, author and creative-writing lecturer, whose new book, Everything Is True, tells the story of her first 40 days treating patients during the pandemic in the UK. She speaks with paediatrician and broadcaster Dr Guddi Singh about the reality of working in medicine during a global health crisis and the challenges of capturing the full scope of that experience in words on the page.
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