Dr Shamarah Mathurin-Charles reflects on her experiences advocating for her patients.

Women as patients 

And then also I think being a black woman we’re kind of seen as being at the bottom of the totem pole, especially in like health inequalities, and for me that helps me to advocate better for my patients I think, on many different levels and being able to empathise with them better, especially in practices and hospitals in south east London where a lot of the patients are in poverty. A lot of them are people of colour, immigrants from different countries, from war-torn countries. I think being a black woman in healthcare just helps me to build that empathy and advocate for my patients a lot more and a lot better.