Dr Addy will see you now

I have always had a passion for watching medical programmes, be it the real thing in documentaries or dramas. From a small child I was engrossed in watching Dr Kildare, although I rather suspect that it was because Richard Chamberlain was very dishy and the main attraction! Then came Emergency Ward 10, Gray's Anatomy,  Casualty and Holby City. The documentaries such as 24 hours in A&E, Casualty 24/7, GPs Behind Closed Doors and Surgeons at the Edge of Life. I have watched so many I swear I could open my own practice! When watching them, I can usually make the correct diagnosis before the doctor does! 

My closest friends have a dislike of all things medical and any mention of blood or gory operations has them running for the hills and sticking their fingers in their ears, so as not to hear any detail. Me - I can watch a documentary inside the operating theatre showing a complex operation, while I eat a plate of spaghetti bolognaise. It really doesn't bother me one bit, but it does mean I cannot share my interest with my friends. 

I sometimes think I should have chosen this profession as my career, but in reality, at school, I hated chemistry with a passion and veered more to foreign languages than the sciences, so that ruled me out from the start. It was therefore only ever going to be a pastime.

I often wonder whether I had a subliminal influence on Kay choosing medicine as her career, as she was kinda forced to watch these programmes with me, as she grew up. She says, it didn't, but, like water on a stone, it may have had some effect. She is now progressing in leaps and bounds in her career and I am immensely proud of her.