
17/07/2025
Dr Chatterjee grew up watching his doctor father come home in the evening after a day at the hospital, eat dinner, shave and head straight out to see more patients.
Twelve hours later, he would arrive back home, and this time he would eat breakfast, shave again, then go right back to the hospital for another day’s work.
It was a pattern he kept up for nearly 30 years, sleeping only three nights a week, until his body broke under the strain.
And it was a pattern Rangan nearly fell into himself as a young doctor.
But after his Dad died, he found himself taking stock of the way he was living and asking what the future would look like if he kept going the same way.
He came to see that for himself, and his patients, that health is inextricably linked to happiness, and that while you are frantically climbing the ladder to success, you might end up missing your actual life.
Rangan is now a medical specialist on the BBC, and he’s also a podcast host and a best-selling author.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/rangan-chatterjee-gp-health-doctor-feel-better-live-more/105524268
📷1. Rangan when he became a member of The Royal College of GPs in London with his wife, Vidhaata Chatterjee and his mum and dad;
2. Rangan with his father, Dr Tarun Chatterjee, in 1985.
3. A portrait of Rangan taken by Ali Rogers.