As a junior doctor in Wales and co-chair of the British Medical Association’s Welsh junior doctor committee, I am proud to work within something as fundamentally powerful as a free healthcare service.
My life has been lived in and around healthcare. I grew up with a disabled grandmother, a nurse for a mum and received my first chronic illness diagnosis at the age of 16, after years of symptoms. It’s exactly this background that influenced me to seek a career in healthcare.
A car crash in 2017 gifted me a prolonged patient experience and the resulting paraplegia means I not only work in the NHS, but constantly rely on it. Without the NHS, I would be drowning in debt, incapable of living and working as I want, or even dead. This is the reality of what an NHS collapse would mean for me and for many others.
