The intensive care specialist who used to blog as the Secret Doctor on her candid new book about her experiences as a young trainee
Aoife Abbey’s book, Seven Signs of Life, chronicles the emotional highs and lows of her life as an intensive care doctor. The daughter of a nurse, she grew up in Dublin and graduated from medical school at the University of Warwick in 2011. Now 35, she was until recently the anonymous author of a blog, The Secret Doctor, for the British Medical Association, which was read fortnightly by more than half a million people. She is now working in a hospital in Coventry.
Did you always want to be a doctor?
Yes, although I find it hard to say exactly why. I suppose the most obvious link to my childhood is that my older brother, Aaron [who died last October], was often unwell when we were growing up so I spent a lot of time in hospitals. Being exposed at such a young age to the lives and work of doctors must have had a big influence on me.
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2REF0xO
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