No more "Physician, heal thyself"

Drawing on over twenty years of work supporting doctors under pressure, Caroline wrote the acclaimed book - a revealing, candid and overwhelmingly human insight into today’s medical profession.

"My hopes were probably very similar to the RMBF's hopes for its own campaigns: to raise awareness and draw attention to the issues faced by medical professionals today. I was in the privileged position of being alone in a room hearing all these stories, and didn't really get the sense that the wider population and patients really know what's it's like to be a doctor. I also don't think TV programmes have tended to give a real picture; [it is] all glossed and skewed compared with reality.

I wanted to highlight these issues because I could see that certain things were occurring again and again: issues around race, gender, choosing the right speciality as well as, of course, the pressures that all doctors were working under. The people - the individual doctors - were different, but the underlying problems were very much recurrent".

Read the full story on the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund website