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DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Medicine has been a passion for Charlotte since was a teenager. She was inspired by a teacher at school to move beyond her family’s low expectations and do something with her life.

And so began her long struggle to do just that.

Academia didn’t come naturally to Charlotte, who has worked hard to earn everything she has achieved. And she continues to work hard, having taken on the grueling Emergency Fellowship in the hopes that she’ll have the opportunity to run her own ED one day.

She’s an excellent doctor and has had no trouble balancing on the fine line between fear and overconfidence throughout her career. She takes a fairly no-nonsense attitude to life and her work but is a caring and compassionate medico, sometimes too empathetic to the life and death struggles she witnesses.

Her personal life has been a similar struggle. Charlotte married young (to Vincent Hughes who was studying medicine with her at University) and then struggled with a perceived lack of intimacy in their relationship. Times were tough, the study and work hours put extra stress on the marriage.

And Charlotte’s natural insecurities came to the fore.

As a consequence, Charlotte found herself drawn to a new partner, who happened to be a woman. Announcing to her husband that she was gay and their marriage was over, Charlotte embarked on an exploration of her sexuality for a number of years.

And as with most things in her life, Charlotte never stopped to examine the situation, she just “rolled with the flow”. When that relationship imploded, she moved on to the next woman who showed an interest in her.

Now, time and maturity has led Charlotte to the realisation that her romantic inclinations are more complex than the “gay” label she pinned on herself would suggest. She falls for individuals, not gender. This has led her to the second heterosexual relationship of her life, (with fellow Doctor Doug Spencer). And she is now the proud mother of a baby boy, Zachary.

But as with most things in Charlotte’s life, her inability to really examine her own motives and desires, has led to a separation from her baby’s father.

And so, Charlotte is now juggling work and parenthood. She is 2-IC in the Emergency Department. She’s determined to triumph, no matter how complex things get for her.