Marius Brown, Author at THE ROVING DOCTOR

I.I.VIII.I – Cancún: Day One & Two

CANCÚN I.I.VIII.I – DAY ONE & TWO 27/08/22 & 28/08/22 My next bus ride took me to the most touristic city of Mexico, that of Cancún. Being a relatively new city which was built in 1970 mostly for touristic purposes, Cancún is found in the state of Quintana Roo and makes up part of the Caribbean coast. It took me […]

Added on January 4, 2024 Second Year , Life

II.III.I – Departure

II.III.I DEPARTURE Colombia… Half the world away it stood. And I was going there. The furthest I had ever been from home was Manchester; three hours away from Malta by plane. And now I was going to friggin Colombia – some 10,000 kilometres away. “It’s okay, it’s okay – he’ll be there with me!” I told myself as I was […]

Added on January 1, 2024 A Year in the Life , Mexico

I.I.VII.II – Mérida: Day Three

MÉRIDA I.I.VII.II – DAY THREE 26/08/22 The next day, my tour companion would be Andrea; a Mexican-born lawyer who left the country around ten years previously to work in the US and had just left her job to travel and find her purpose in life. I seemed to be hitting the jackpot of travel buddies! This time, we’d be heading […]

Added on December 28, 2023 Second Year , Loss

II.II.VI – Out

II.II.VI OUT Over the next two weeks of my summer general rotation, my passion for medicine would only intensify. I saw all kinds of surgeries – some of which I’d be lucky to encounter again throughout my life. It was all I expected to see and then some. Patients that would forever remain immortalised in my memory. Especially the one […]

Added on December 25, 2023 A Year in the Life , Mexico

I.I.VII.I – Mérida: Day One & Two

MÉRIDA I.I.VII.I – DAY ONE & TWO 24/08/22 & 25/08/22 Yep, you guessed it. Yet another bus trip – this time to Mérida; a city in the state of Yucatán. Pretty much like in my other stops, I’d have three days here, though this time round I had plans only for one. I spent the first afternoon going around the […]

Added on December 21, 2023 Second Year , Loss

II.II.V – In

II.II.V IN My third year in medicine war right around the corner. Third year – one of the most challenging years in the course if not the most. But it’s also the year I had been most looking forward to. Third year meant finally starting our clinical rotations! The previous summer, before the whole Manchester saga, I had spent two […]

Added on December 18, 2023 A Year in the Life , Mexico

I.I.VI.III – San Francisco de Campeche: Day Three

SAN FRANCISCO DE CAMPECHE I.I.VI.III – DAY THREE 23/08/22 Having just one day left, I tried to make the most of my time by visiting as many places as I could, dragging Xavier along with me. He had been living in Campeche for six months but, being so enrapt with his work, he had no time to explore anywhere outside […]

Added on December 14, 2023 Second Year , Loss

II.II.IV – Inheritance

II.II.IV INHERITANCE read on the doe It wasn’t only grief that changed me after my father’s death. For the first time in my life, I had enough money to do whatever the hell I wanted. I’m not talking millions here—in fact, I was by no account even close to being rich. I had just enough to live comfortably and splurge […]

Added on December 11, 2023 A Year in the Life , Mexico

I.I.VI.II – San Francisco de Campeche: Day Two

SAN FRANCISCO DE CAMPECHE I.I.VI.II – DAY TWO 22/08/22 The following day, Xavier and I went around the citadel again; this time with a fresh perspective considering he had been here for quite a long while and knew the city through and through. With him having to go to work at his construction site, we split up and I made my […]

Added on December 7, 2023 Second Year , Loss

II.II.III – Alone

II.II.III ALONE I had never lost anyone before then. This was all terra incognita to me. Luckily, I wasn’t alone. I had friends, and now, I also had someone by my side who made it a little more bearable. Only now, this someone too was about to leave me. It was around the same time that Pedro’s job opportunity fell […]