Role model: Bridget MacDonald

*Online headline* When sociology informs medicine: the consultant neurologistBridget MacDonald enjoys demystifying neurology for the patients she cares for and the doctors she trains. “I love being able to explain things in a way that people understand and that diffuses their anxieties,” she says.As a consultant neurologist with a special interest in epilepsy at Croydon University Hospital and St George’s Hospital in London, she is inspired by those in her care. “My patients have taught me so much—how they deal with their disabilities, how they make the best of what they’ve been dealt and enjoy what there is to enjoy in life.”MacDonald has always been interested in medicine. “My mother was a midwife who brought me up with stories that taught me much about medicine.” She was also inspired by her childhood GP—“I can still picture his waiting room,” she says.At the age of 8, while at a ballet class,…
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