Join Hloni Bookholane on his journey of becoming a doctor: from student to intern at the world-famous Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to the best school of public health in the world across the Atlantic, and back home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There are highs and lows – learnings and unlearnings – about the personal versus political as he discovers how government policy, socioeconomics and more influence disease and medicine.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hloni Bookholane completed his medical degree at the University of Cape Town. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States. He is passionate about medicine with a specific focus on organ-donation and transplantation policy, and a growing interest in global diplomacy and governance. 

Becoming a Doctor: Learnings and unlearnings about life and the politics of medicine is published by Tafelberg, an imprint of NB Publishers