Time code (approximately)
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Point of interest
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00:01:47
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Dr Rollin talks about her early life in Budapest, her parents who were central European Jews, and how her family were smuggled from Hungary to Rhodesia by the CIA.
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00:03:57
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Her early interest in medicine and being told that medicine wasn't for girls.
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00:05:12
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University in Cape Town during the apartheid era, doing "a little stirring" and acquiring a police record.
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00:06:28
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Coming to England in 1965 to study medicine at Guy's Hospital, London.
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00:06:59
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First impressions of London in the '60s and the "Victorian" uniforms at Guy's.
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00:08:30
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Number of women students in her year at Guy's.
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00:09:09
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Women teachers and role models.
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00:10:10
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Women being in the minority, being the "queen bee" having a "hive".
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00:12:09
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Guy's being the last medical school to admit women.
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00:12:48
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Story of being houseman to a urologist who was adamant that women were not suited to medicine.
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00:16:51
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How women at Guy's were treated differently to men.
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00:17:29
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Story of her dress being unzipped by a professor.
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00:18:32
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Story of a paediatrician's behaviour towards a young male patient which would get him struck off if it happened today.
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00:22:24
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Reasons for deciding to become an anaesthetist.
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00:24:23
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Starting anaesthetics training at Guy's in 1970 and being "chucked in at the deep end.”
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00:24:52
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Scarcity of women anaesthetists and the first woman consultant at Guy's (Penny Boulton Hewitt).
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00:27:02
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Unconscious bias, what might have been perceived as barriers to women were seen by men as kindness towards them.
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00:28:59
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Qualifying as an anaesthetist in 1970 and being appointed consultant in 1977.
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00:29:34
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The assumption that she would not want to become a teaching hospital consultant because by then she was married with a child, and how she started work in Epsom Hospital where she stayed for 36 years.
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00:31:34
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How the standards there [Epsom Hospital] were quite low but she and two colleagues turned the place around.
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00:32:39
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Barriers encountered when trying to make changes at Epsom.
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00:34:15
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Requesting to join the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists and being turned down.
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00:37:13
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The effect of working hours and unpredictable lifestyle on family life, "Supper was an hour after I arrived home, regardless of when", support from her husband Dr Henry Rollin.
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00:39:30
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Retirement from the NHS in 2011.
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00:40:07
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Professional activities since retirement.
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00:40:33
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Thoughts on the qualities that women bring to anaesthesia, "We're often more meticulous, or more obsessional.”
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00:43:53
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The proportion of women represented in anaesthesia, including research and leadership positions, compared with women in medicine generally.
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00:47:59
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Advantages of being a woman in the specialty, "I've very possibly had more fun… It was more fun to flirt with the prof than to not.”
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00:48:52
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Assumptions made by patients that she was a nurse, and her feelings about that, "So what?"
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00:52:53
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Story about Muslim women whose husbands refused to let them see male staff.
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00:54:24
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Reflections on what she has enjoyed most about her role.
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00:55:53
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Being awarded an MBE in 2014 and her feelings about that.
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00:59:28
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The highlights of her career.
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01:00:20
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Worst moments ("crashing" a patient).
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01:02:09
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Positive changes that have come about for women in the field of medicine.
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01:06:01
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Advice for women thinking of becoming anaesthetists.
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01:07:27
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Reflections on being a woman in the speciality, being the "queen bee.”
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