This Chief Medical/Mum Officer is Not Waiting for Godot

Some children collect sports ribbons. Two weeks ago ateyeforpharma Barcelona, my daughter Delilah collected her first pharma conference badge. Life is different when you live with a chronic condition – even when you’re ten years old! We were delighted to be members of a panel reviewing patient-centred care, and as is always the case when patients are given a voice, we wanted to tell our story of awareness, diagnosis, everyday challenges and how our needs will change as we surmount the obstac les of the condition called life.I ’m often asked to describe how I balance my role as a Medical Biochemist working on communication programs with the pharma industry – and being a mother and stepmother to four sentient, savvy and seriously bright children, one of whom has a growth hormone deficiency which although not life-threa tening does impact on her, and our family in small ways, every day. The simple answer is that I’m Mum first, writer second and having established that as a credo, everything else just has to fall in place (or fall off the to-do list). I’m writing this on the eve of Mother’s Day having just dro pped one child to a party, another to dance class, whilst running through GHD-deficient daughter’s data to see her consultant in a few days. Then I need to write my next presentation on R&D and social media to make to a Patient Advisory Group! I am ‘every working Mum’ – as was described by Facebook executives in January who summed this up when they...
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