Working Life: When a ward round requires an earlier start, my husband does the school run

Dr Jane McCarty, consultant gastroenterologist, Mercy University Hospital, HSE, Cork

Dr Jane McCarty, consultant gastroenterologist, Mercy University Hospital, HSE, Cork. 

6.30-7am

I’m up to get everyone out of the house, and drop two of our three sons to school on the way to work - the oldest gets to college under his own steam. When a meeting or ward round requires an earlier start, my husband does the school run.