‘I always wanted to be a doctor – 12 kids later I’m about to start medical school’

Rosemary Murphy is studying medicine while caring for her brood, aged 20 months to 20 years.
Rosemary Murphy.

As she entered her teens in the 1990s with an obsession for the British TV show called Casualty, Rosemary Murphy set her heart on making it as a doctor.

But to paraphrase John Lennon, life is what happened when she got busy making plans.