Jessica Lee
| Fact title | Fact data |
|---|---|
| Age |
26
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| Year |
F2
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| Department |
Haematology - treating all aspects of illnesses involving blood, from sickle cell anaemia to cancer
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- Lovely outgoing personality – admits to being ditzy despite being one of Malaysia's top medical students
- Loves spinning and cooking
Background
Originally from Malaysia, Jessica came over to Birmingham for medical school at 19. She was selected from a big pool of applicants from Malaysia to make it to med school in the UK so she's proud to be through. She's one of five kids in her family – her siblings live between both Singapore and Australia and parents in Malaysia – she is in constant contact with them all. Most of her family are architects, so she considers herself the black sheep of the family!
Social Life
Jessica lives a life across two continents. She's extremely close to her family and she misses them hugely. They facetime, whatsapp constantly and she makes sure she sees them all at least once a year. In July they're all meeting up to holiday together in Bali.
In Birmingham Jess has a close-knit group of friends who are almost as good as family, including fellow JD Anna. She lives with another JD (female) who is at another hospital.
J loves spinning classes in her spare time and cooking too. (She's single and we'd love to know if she's looking for someone.)
Doctor Story
If Jessica wasn't a doctor, she would have been an architect. She's given up the opportunity to pursue a career in architecture and to inherit her father's architectural company in order to pursue a career in medicine. At times, she doubts herself and wonders if she's made the right choice.
However, after experiencing frustration with acne herself and access to appropriate medical care, she's convinced that there's a higher calling in providing timely medical treatment to patients and the wider community in times of need.
Jess has come from a non-hospital based rotation and started in haematology in April to find out if this could be her calling. She feels really nervous about being back on wards and getting back into the swing of things.
She self-confesses to being a bit ditzy and can get things wrong and muck up at times! She's warm, open and humble about her 'failings' but at the same time is motivated to be in medicine to help people and give back.
