• Question: What's your life goal?

    Asked by anon-184189 to Abbie on 7 Nov 2018.
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      Abbie Jordan answered on 7 Nov 2018:


      This is hard!! If you mean overall then something cheesy like seeing my children grow up to be healthy, kind and happy adults. That matters to be hugely as a parent. I love what I do (hugely) but my children would always come first.

      If you mean work wise then I would love to get a large research grant (as in application) that we are starting to put together to look at how to help doctors not over medicalise pain as this can make things worse for young people (e.g. asking for repeated tests when they are not needed). I would also like to develop my own lab in paediatric pain at my uni. I am getting there and have two PhD students already and some Masters students. Slowly but surely!

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