My medicine

"I look at my patients and see how the cancer and illness eat away at their youth, their limbs and their minds - and I reflect on myself and my life and think about what really matters to me and what I can do with and without.

I observe my patients and their relationships with their loved ones and the general dysfunction that becomes more apparent in times of difficulties - and I reflect on my relationships with my family and friends - everyday I discover something new and I find myself.

And that is what I enjoy the most about my job. And I think it's a privilege to be a doctor, to be given the opportunity to be part of some of the most vulnerable and intimate times of my patients; complete strangers - that this job should not be taken for granted.

To realise, you and me - at the core of it, are not very much different."