Maintaining a personal identity: the consultant radiologist

From an early age Jumana Hussain was told, “It doesn’t matter what background you’re from, it doesn’t matter who you are or that you’re a woman, you’re going to go and succeed.”Hussain, who works for Everlight Radiology providing radiology reporting, says that teachers have had a big influence on her life. “I’ve been lucky to have had inspirational teachers throughout school and throughout training in medicine,” she says.Hussain, who grew up in Croydon, London, thinks she landed on the idea of medicine partly because of her father’s experience of childhood polio, which left him wearing a leg calliper.After studying at Cambridge University and King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education, she became conscious of a lack of female mentors as she approached her foundation years.Coming from a small Muslim community called the Dawoodi Bohras, which includes around 2000 families in the UK, she wanted to talk to someone from…
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