Dr Rangan Chatterjee: 'I wasn't able to protect my son from getting sick'

TV medical expert Dr Rangan Chatterjee reflects on how a personal nightmare changed his approach to medicine

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

WHEN bestselling author and star of BBC's Doctor in the House Dr Rangan Chatterjee's six-month-old son nearly died on a family holiday in France, it changed the genial doctor's approach towards medicine.

"We went on holiday one Christmas to Chamonix. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. I was in the kitchen when my wife called out to me. She had my son in her arms and said, 'Rangan, he's stopped moving'. I froze.