‘Where are you really from?’: The heartbreaking question that’s made this paediatrician a better doctor
Dr Sarah Arachchi describes the challenges of being brown, female and in medicine.
Dr Sarah Arachchi says from the day she was born, she has been identified by the colour of her skin, “branding my origins like a postage mark on an international envelope: Sri Lanka”.
She and her family left that first island home when she was five, settling in Melbourne, where she perfected an Aussie accent and struggled to work out where she fitted in.
