BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 00:39:00
Why did you do that? well, certainly not for the glamour or prestige. so in medicine, there's a great hierarchy, and you have your brain surgeons and your heart surgeons at the top. and palliative care doctors are definitely one of those specialities that are low status. we're not rock stars. we're the support act that no—one wants to be and no—one wants our autograph. but i, i believed that... ..what i observed as a young doctor was that dying, in a way, is a more extreme version of what we all go through in our lives. we go through losses of one kind or another, of our health, of the peo...