”The most intimate of details for the patient, become common knowledge for us.” - Dom

Welcome back to Humans of Medicine! This started off as an idea to get advice, learnings, and yarns from a range of medical students later on in their degrees, to help new students get acquainted with what’s to come.

In this conversation I chatted with Domenic Marrocco, a 3rd year student at the University of Sydney, placed at Nepean hospital. He comes from a less traditional background, graduating from a Science/Law degree and having worked as a lawyer.

We talk about his career shift, the privilege of perspective that medicine comes with, inspiring junior doctors and their hidden roles, and how to keep following your why. If you'd like to ask him any questions, flick him an email at [email protected].

This is a longer chat - so if you’d like to hop around, check out the time stamps below. Hope you enjoy!

00:47 What brings you to medicine?

01:55 Life experiences from law

06:16 Sticking to your why

11:56 Comparing medicine to other career paths

14:13 The privilege of perspective

20:28 Inspiring junior doctors and their hidden roles

26:00 What doctors to look up to

31:59 Gravitating towards interests (i.e. Orthopaedics)

38:45 Tips for the MD project

41:44 Advice for first years