Ethan Kavanagh

Hi, my name is Ethan (as you may have guessed) and I'm a Junior Doctor.

I was born and bred in Belfast. I had a fun time spending my first year of medical school speaking slowly so people could understand the wonders of the Northern Ireland accent. When I'm not doing that, I'm dreaming of eventually going skydiving (and dragging my girlfriend along with me). I used to practise magic and sleight of hand. After a long day at university, it's much easier to just open a knock-off tub of Ben and Jerry's and watch TV (student life for you).

I'm a committee member of Leicester Insight, an article writer and editor for SimpleMed. Currently, the specialty (area of medicine) I would like to go into is emergency medicine and pre-hospital work (treating patients before they reach hospital, for example on an air ambulance). What I find appealing is the puzzle that each patient brings, whether they walk into the department or you get called out to them. Some patients do have routine presentations (common, straightforward problems), and the job can sometimes get boring. Although emergency medicine is challenging and intense, it is very varied: patients arrive with many different problems. Plenty of people have warned me about still working 12-hour shifts at the age of forty with little family time, so I guess we'll see what happens.