Early Life
Oates-Whitehead was born and brought up in Gisborne. She suffered from epilepsy in her childhood. It appears that she displayed interest in becoming a physician or entering the medical profession right from her school days. Her school friends described her as a caring person.
While she could not become a physician, she embarked on a career that can be described as a part of the medical profession; she trained as a radiation therapist for a year in 1991, working on a study on prevention of blood coagulation.
This included an internship at Auckland. She moved to London in 2001, and prior to her last employment with BMA as an editor of Clinical Evidence (an online journal of the British Medical Journal), she was with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the role of clinical effectiveness coordinator. Immediately prior to her employment at the BMA she worked as a medical writer for Euro RSCG Medical Education; throughout her brief employment at this company she posed as a doctor.
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