Local celebrity (our doctor from Dulwich Medical Center)

[Rach]

Did anyone see GMTV this morning - our doctor from Dulwich Medical Center was on it talking about hayfever!

Thought she looked fab and much better than Dr Hilary!

[Jamma]

Which DMC doc? Tell me it was Nush the totally glam doc.

[Ted Max]

Don't say I'm not good to you.

Dr Anu Bhatia - sixth video down (at the time of posting).

Feels a change of GP coming on.

[Keef]

Cool, I've seen her a few times. Think the fringe is new though...

[martinchiversfanclub]

great.

[lorraineliyanage]

That's a great haircut she's got!

[monica]

wow Anu, interesting interview, Kudos to her.Lovely lady

[pablogrande]

lorraineliyanage Wrote:

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> That's a great haircut she's got!

wasn't there a thread about 'playmobile hand' on here last week, looks like it's spread to her head

[Pickle]

Good on her, she interviewed well.

She's known to us as "clippy cloppy pretend doctor"... I can't help thinking she looks nothing like a doctor when I see her in the surgery wearing her trendy retro dresses and high heels! But, she's lovely.

[lorraineliyanage]

It would be a bit rude to call someone a "pretend doctor" just because they look a bit trendy and wear high heels.

[Pickle]

It's not meant to be mean - she's an excellent doctor, just seems streets ahead of all the other doctors I've ever come across in terms of personality and fashion sense! :)

[snorky]

The DMC - Business venture or community health centre ?

I err on the side of ambitious business

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[Jamma]

Get lost Snorky. You're just jealous because your doctor isn't a hotty.

[snorky]

how do you know ?

[Jamma]

I refuse to believe there's a hotter doctor in Dulwich than Anu Bhatia

[annaj]

Pickle Wrote:

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> It's not meant to be mean - she's an excellent

> doctor, just seems streets ahead of all the other

> doctors I've ever come across in terms of

> personality and fashion sense! :)

I don't want to seem like I've had a total sense of humour failure, because actaully your first post did make me laugh, but it is a bit of a dated stereotype to think that a doctor can't be a fashionable woman with a personality.

Sadly, it still surprises people of all ages and backgrounds when their doctor is a young woman and I still get called nurse every day. Although your nickname is lighthearted it does reflect the belief that doctors have to be stuffy men in suits.

I don't dress glamourously for work, it wouldn't really be appropriate for the area I work in, but I'd like to think I have a personality. I certainly know and work with lots of dynamic, fashionable, charismatic and interesting women who also happen to be doctors.

[Pickle]

Annaj, it is very true that people are surprised to see a young dynamic woman working as a doctor. I should know better than to quip about it. I used to work as an accountant in the city, and was often faced with surprised looks from people who had assumed I was a PA - so it happens in other industries too.

[annaj]

Oh I'm sure it happens in other industries too, Pickle.

Don't worry, I'm not seriously offended, just a little tired and grumpy today.

It's hard work being fashionable, having a personality and working shifts ;-)

[annaj]

ps have just realised that I have met too many people on here face-to-face to get away with calling myself fashionable. I'll stick with just having a personality!

[Pickle]

;-)

I'll stick to being an ex-accountant, now Mum, who must admit to feeling more than slightly jealous when faced with the lovely Dr Anu looking fabulous while I sit covered in baby sick/food, wearing whatever clothes I picked up off the floor that morning, looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards. Sigh.

[giggirl]

Dear AnnaJ - I've been thinking of moving to Dulwich Medical Centre for years now and have just never got round to it. I shall be in there at the first opportunity to sign up! More power to you; you sound fabulous.

[annaj]

Oh dear, serious wire crossing giggirl.

I don't work at DMC and I'm certainly not the fabulously glamourous Dr Bhatia. I work in a not very glamourous hospital far enough away from ED that I'm not likely to ever encounter any forumites.

I was just making the point that it shouldn't really be a surprise to find a female doctor who is also fashionable and has a personality.

[martinchiversfanclub]

yep

[Pickle]

Oooooh, are you the one that looks like Daniel Craig?

[martinchiversfanclub]

me look like Daniel Craig?