Doctors Dissected by Jane Haynes & Martin Scurr

Author:Jane Haynes & Martin Scurr [Haynes, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780704373822
Publisher: Quartet Books
Published: 2015-02-11T23:00:00+00:00

At senior school I loved Classics and ended up doing ancient Greek and Latin but I was also very good at the Sciences and so it just followed on in my mind that I would do Medicine. I was always hard working.

Was your dad proud of you?

I don’t know. I suppose the answer is ‘yes’, but he was never someone that would particularly have shown that emotion at the time. The one thing that happened as I was growing up was the tension between doing well academically and my passion for music, because I was really into music. Somewhere along the line my dad became worried that if I became too good at music I would change my mind and want a music career, which he wouldn’t have regarded as a decent and secure career like medicine. To begin with my parents were very supportive when I said I wanted to learn the clarinet and Mum took me to all my lessons. But, after that, when I decided I was going to learn other instruments like the flute they weren’t so happy. Mum always went along with everything Dad said so later on I had to save up to buy my own flute and later still my bassoon. The year that I did my GCSEs my dad insisted that I had to give up all my extra-curricular music activities. I was quite good by then and had taken Grade 8 in both instruments and even used to perform the odd clarinet concerto. I was doing loads of concerts and I still do. After some time I realized that, however good I was, there were always zillions of other brilliant clarinet players and flautists but not so with the bassoon. That’s why I took it up as my principal instrument and that way I got into loads of orchestras. It has been that way for about 25 years now and it has given me a lot of opportunities as a doctor. I belong to both the European Doctors’ Orchestra and to the World Doctors’ Orchestra. After I became a houseman with masses of debt the first thing I did was to go out and buy a cello. Yes, I had always wanted a cello but it has only been in the last few years that I have found the time to learn it. I am hoping to take Grade 8 before too much longer.

To go back a bit, as I said, my dad insisted and I stopped doing music the year of my GCSEs but it was a very bad decision for me and I actually found it was harder to study after I had been forced to drop all my music activities. Now I know that I need music to balance my life and that, if I don’t have that balance, then it is difficult for me to do the regular study. I made a decision then that I would never give up my music again which, when it came to my A-levels, led to quite a few arguments with Dad.

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