From Imperial dropout to Cambridge medic to digital health leader — Dr. Anushka Patchava’s career has been anything but traditional.

In this candid and energising conversation, Anushka reflects on:

• The cultural and internal pressures that pushed her into medicine

• Why she left radiology (and what a night shift at King’s Hospital had to do with it)

• Her difficult but necessary leap into consulting and health insurance

• Building WellEx and why she walked away from it

• Her brutally honest journey with mental health — and how it led her to join a mental health startup

Anushka brings radical honesty, vulnerability, and wisdom to a conversation about identity, ambition, and the courage to start again — again and again. Whether you're contemplating a transition or simply curious about what life outside of clinical work looks like, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

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