Joanna Rooney
| Fact title | Fact data |
|---|---|
| Age |
27
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| Year |
F2
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| Department |
Trauma and Orthopaedics - treating all injuries that affect the musculoskeletal system
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- Seriously sporty adventurer
- Globetrotting traveller who loves to see the world
- High flyer and wannabe 'badass' surgeon
Background
Joanna is originally from Stockport but moved to Birmingham to go to University. She is single and on the lookout for love. She loves to travel and see the world. She currently lives in a flat in Birmingham with another medic.
Social Life
Joanna spends a lot of her free time doing sports. She has been training for a triathlon she took part in in April. She joined a running club in Birmingham where she met loads of people and likes to socialise and hang out with them.
Joanna is very sociable and tries to go out more with people who are not medics. She likes to go out for brunch and going to the pub with her friends. She is the middle child of three and is very close to her younger sister, they are constantly texting each other.
As a person, in work and in her personal life Joanna says she is very "black and white". She is stubborn and straightforward, there are no grey areas!
Doctor Story
Joanna always wanted to be a medic. There were many doctors in her family – her father and both of her grandfathers. Initially she wanted to be a vet when she was young, but then she changed her mind and decided that humans are more interesting.
She says that she "would love to be a badass surgeon", wants to move abroad and get some trauma experience in South Africa. She is moving to Melbourne in August, where she will be working in A&E and is keen to stay there for couple of years.
Joanna worked in trauma and orthopaedics as an F1, but as an F2 she says "you're on call, you're doing nights and it's completely different. I’m interested in it for a future career".
Trauma and orthopaedics is a busy department with a steady flow of patients coming from A&E with broken bones. Doctors on this ward are often called to A&E and it can get very busy at night. Joanna has been terrified about the fact that she will have so many more responsibilities and that it will now be in her power to discharge patients.
