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The myth of being ‘self-made’

I came. I saw. I conquered. Or so the cliché goes in entrepreneurship. Hard work is not to be underestimated in any field, none so much as…

3 min readSep 14, 2022

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What is success?

We’ve all been there. A seemingly innocent group chat explodes into tens if not hundreds of notifications in response to a single post…

3 min readAug 5, 2022

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What is success?

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6 Things I learnt from Karate Kid: the wisdom of Nariyoshi Miyagi

The 1984 Karate Kid franchise has been re-awakened by the recent Cobra Kai series from Netflix. Karate Kid follows the journey of a…

6 min readDec 31, 2021

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6 Things I learnt from Karate Kid: the wisdom of Nariyoshi Miyagi

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Dipesh Gopal

How do we improve vaccine uptake in older adults from ethnic minorities?

Young men and women arrived from Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent to the UK in search of better life from the late…

4 min readNov 4, 2021

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How do we improve vaccine uptake in older adults from ethnic minorities?

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Dipesh Gopal

Juggling Fire Daily

I remember a few years back reading an article from Amandip Sidhu who lost his brother Jagdip, to suicide.

6 min readOct 31, 2021

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Juggling Fire Daily

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Dipesh Gopal

Death is my motivator: what’s yours?

My friend had lost her father. I couldn’t help but break down on the phone: I felt her suffering. This was in April. It was after several…

5 min readNov 1, 2020

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Death is my motivator: what’s yours?

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Publishing, competition and social media: a messy combination

It was utterly heartbreaking to read a Twitter thread from a medical student, about the resentment and competition amongst medical…

5 min readJul 12, 2020

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Publishing, competition and social media: a messy combination

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Dipesh Gopal

Where You From?

Firstly I’d like to note I’m not black. In light of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, some people have asked me how to be anti-racist. One…

5 min readJun 21, 2020

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Where You From?

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Turn the light on the virus: more testing yesterday

We are in the midst of a fight against something we cannot see. It’s like fighting something in the dark. We must turn the light on our…

4 min readApr 9, 2020

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Turn the light on the virus: more testing yesterday

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Family Medicine Case Notes from the COVID-19 Frontlines

Primary care & Coronavirus (COVID 19): key guidance, information and support

As a family doctor (General Practitioner, GP) we stick to a pattern we take a history, perform an examination, make a diagnosis and…

30 min readMar 27, 2020

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Dipesh Gopal

Dipesh Gopal

I am a doctor (General Practitioner, GP) and researcher who is interested in improving the life of those living with and beyond cancer.

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