Petra Bagust

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3,300 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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Grey Areas with Petra Bagust · Pushed to my limits | Sir Ashley Bloomfield · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Was it discussed?

I decided pretty early on that medicine was the route I was going to go down.

My brother went down the law route.

How's he turned out?

Well, exceptional.

He's an exceptional human being, of course.

Brilliant.

Glad to hear it.

So here you are, and you're in medical school, and you pause the whole thing, do you?

I did.

I took a year off after third year because I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue.

And I felt I'd been, you know, I was 17 when I started medical school.

I'd been, you know, it had been a pretty tough academic road through medicine, through school and medicine.

So I took a year off and that was the best thing I did.

And I

did all sorts of different things hitchhiking around Europe worked on a dairy farm in the UK I helped sail a yacht back from Australia to New Zealand just these are not sequenced but I also learned it was a time of growing up you know I was 21 and it was a time when I sort of looked at my life and what I wanted to do came back with renewed enthusiasm for and energy to finish medicine and

But then I also decided in my fifth year, yeah, I would, actually during my fourth year, that I would do the officer training, partly because I saw it as a challenge and another thing to do, and I guess partly influenced by my father as well.

My brother thought I was completely mad.

He said, I've no idea why you want to do that.

But it was an incredibly enjoyable experience.

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