When I stepped out into the world of private medicine, my mother told me to keep an affirmation file.

I took her advice, but I never read it during the years I worked in private practice.

I felt undervalued by the government for the work I did with children, but my patients had my back.

I could be in the supermarket and a woman would stop me as if I were a friend. “Dr Green, you won’t remember me, but I want to thank you for looking after Kieran when he was a baby.”