Dr Ali Abdaal has reached medic nirvana. He has an incredible YouTube channel (780,000+ subscribers), two successful businesses as well as one of my favourite podcasts. All whilst being a practising doctor. He has diversified to the point at which he's able to approach Medicine on his own terms — as a hobby and passion, not a livelihood.
Dr Pearse Keane is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and NIHR Clinician Scientist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London; the world's leading eye institute. Pearse was responsible for starting the collaboration between Moorfields and DeepMind — and was recently profiled in The Economist. Some of his most famous research uses deep learning to identify retinal disease from OCT scans.
A hackathon is like the Apprentice meets Dragons’ Den — you work in teams to come up with a business idea which you then pitch to a panel. I’d travelled down to London to make a name for myself at a MedTech hackathon.