Hloni Bookholane: The highs and the lows of 'Becoming A Doctor' in SA
This book gives a better understanding of what our young medical doctors go through to serve our nation.
Hloni Bookholane wrote a book about his journey of becoming a doctor - from student to intern at the world-famous Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to the best school of public health in the world across the Atlantic, and back home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For Bookholane, it was never easy. There were highs and lows - learnings and unlearnings - about the personal versus political as he discovers how government policy, socioeconomics, and more influence disease and medicine.
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Rian van Heerden spoke to Bookholane about his journey and the daily struggle all young medical doctors go through.
Bookholane's official Instagram page has become a social media page that makes a difference. On his page, he tells the stories of ordinary and hard-working medical doctors.
Follow him and his Instagram page here.
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