‘I was sexually harassed or assaulted in 18 of those 21 [training] terms… we just accepted that as a cost we had to pay.’

While Dr Neela Janakiramanan’s debut novel may be fiction, the experiences it recounts are all borne of fact. The surgeon and author joined Future Women Live to discuss how her surgical training – and the burnout, pressure, and abject sexism that came with it – inspired her to write The Registrar, which follows Emma Swann through her surgical training.