Punam Krishan

Meet the doctor who wants to teach young people life-saving skills.

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Dr Punam Krishan is a GP, which stands for general practitioner. GPs are the doctors at local clinics and health centres who treat all common medical conditions and also work out if someone needs to have specialist treatment. Krishan also appears on TV and has written books including How to Be a Doctor and Other Life-Saving Jobs, You and Your Body and The Superhero’s First Aid Manual, which has just come out. When she sat down to talk to The Week Junior Science+Nature, it had been a busy day for her. She'd been working in the clinic, and it's hard to predict when that will finish. She said, "You can’t rush patients.”

Helping others

The reason Krishan decided to become a doctor is because she is really fascinated by people. Science and maths weren't Krishan's favourite subjects at school - she loved history, music and drama. Krishan says she was a “real chatterbox”, who always had to sit at the front of the class, because she used to finish her work really quickly and then distract everybody else.