Rosamund Kendal
After studying medicine for six years and then working as a doctor for another five, Rosamund Kendal decided that the creative side of her brain needed some stimulation and enrolled for the Master's degree in creative writing at UCT. She hasn’t been able to decide whether she prefers being a freelance writer or a general practitioner, so she’s come to a compromise and does both part-time.
“Sainthood is not a prerequisite for acceptance to medical school. Perhaps it should be.”
Rosamund Kendal
“Remember that life is a lot like medicine: at the end of the day, everything is a matter of risk versus benefit, pro versus con.”
Rosamund Kendal
“...if everybody is born essentially good, what is wrong with our society that it so often allows the goodness to go into hiding? It is easier, I suppose, just to believe that some people are born inherently evil.”
Rosamund Kendal
“I have a theory that doctors are permanently tired as they are always fighting off some new virus to which they have been exposed.”
Rosamund Kendal
“The time that I spend in hospital is so dauntingly real that it makes my activities and emotions outside of working hours feel childish and superficial, like a sitcom, a half-hour television comedy.”
Rosamund Kendal