“The Doctor You Grow Into” By Waseem Jerjes

The Doctor You Grow Into explores the moments that rarely appear in curricula or guidelines: consultations that do not fit, pressures that reward speed over care, metrics that miss what matters, and judgements made when time, systems, and values collide.

Written as a series of connected vignettes drawn from real clinical life, the book traces how professionals are formed — and sometimes distorted — by training and institutions.

Thoughtful, unsentimental, and deeply recognisable, it invites readers across healthcare to reflect not only on what they do, but on who they are becoming.