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When Sarah Arachchi was thirteen, she decided to become a paediatrician. She fulfilled that dream in 2018 after years of study, becoming a mother and overcoming the challenges of being a brown, female doctor. She came to Australia with her parents from Sri Lanka when she was only four years old, and has navigated a path to find her Sri Lankan Australian identity.
Guest: Sarah Arachchi, Paediatrician and auther of Brown, Female, Doctor: A Memoir (Monash University Publishing)
By ABCWhen Sarah Arachchi was thirteen, she decided to become a paediatrician. She fulfilled that dream in 2018 after years of study, becoming a mother and overcoming the challenges of being a brown, female doctor. She came to Australia with her parents from Sri Lanka when she was only four years old, and has navigated a path to find her Sri Lankan Australian identity.
Guest: Sarah Arachchi, Paediatrician and auther of Brown, Female, Doctor: A Memoir (Monash University Publishing)

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