On a usual working day, I wake up at around 7am, except on Wednesdays when I work the late shift. Before I go to work, I enjoy reading a variety of newspapers, particularly The Guardian, The Times, The New York Times and the Irish Independent. As well as reading, I do my emails, answer lots of WhatsApp messages from colleagues around the world and keep up to date on the industry through social media. I arrive at work at 9am and see patients up until 1pm, when I have my lunch.
I usually see around 10 patients in the morning and eight in the afternoon on a normal medical day. It is interesting with lots of skin cancer appointments, and complex botulinum toxin concerns, especially Bell’s palsy cases and chronic migraines. We also conduct aesthetic medicine in both our Dublin and Cork clinics, and I can see a lot of patients during this time, sometimes 20-30 in a day. I have recently…