‘You don’t have to be a genius’ – Experiences of a Junior Doctor with Diane Buck

Diane Buck speaks about her new book at the Women’s Hour event in Knighton Comm on 29/10/25.

‘…to be a doctor.’ That was said by a wizened old GP at a careers convention in about 1964, but Diana remembered it — you just had to
jump through the hoops. This is the account of the hoops … None were what she expected – soon she realized that nothing in life is how it is supposed to be!
She navigates the strange new world of adult life, medical school and hospital medicine seeing things from her refreshing and humorous perspective.
Looking back 50 years it is the extraordinary that she recalls most vividly, the people and events that changed the way she saw the world.