May top picks: politics, psychological safety, and creativity

As a teenager, I was always a little “too political.” If I hadn’t studied medicine, I might have found myself getting stuck into the different, but perhaps equally strange world of politics. These dual interests have influenced my year at The BMJ, but also how I approach my medical degree. I’ve always seen medicine as inherently political: growing up in a post-conflict Northern Ireland, so much of the world around me, and the health of the society around me, was intertwined with its political context. Although my 18 year old self tied herself firmly to the medicine wall—partially through disbelief that I was accepted onto the course in the first place—I still find myself geeking out over the coming election season, and wondering what the consequences will be for patients, for students like myself, or for the 350 students taking up the additional medical school places funded by the government…
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