Donald Menzies, an occupational health consultant, tells Adrian O’Dowd why respect and understanding for fellow clinicians and their work pressures is central to his work
During times of intense work pressure, understanding just how hard practising medicine can be is vital to the work of Donald Menzies. As a consultant in occupational medicine at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, he believes that occupational health is an under-rated specialty that more doctors should consider as a career choice.
Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, who was a GP and an inspiration, Menzies went into medicine after briefly considering an alternative career. “My first instinct was to be a vet,” he says. “I got a place in the Edinburgh veterinary school.”
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