DR CUNLIFFE is a senior consultant in children’s pain management and anaesthesia, and is regularly called to lecture abroad. She lives in Calderstones and works at Alder Hey.
“It’s a close-up of a hydrangea-type bush in my garden, but partly made up. There’s a lot of pattern and intricacy and colour that you don’t see until you’re close up. Light and shade and how things twist round each other. I say I’m a frustrated Georgia O’Keefe.”
Patience, concentration, and dexterity are skills she came equipped with.
“I have to be fairly precise at what I do, especially if I’m dealing with a baby weighing a kilo and putting a drip into it, or a tube into its lungs,” she says.
“Being an anaesthetist, there’s no doubt that for periods of time it’s very quiet and there’s nothing to do but stay alert. It’s quite a funny speciality, really. You have to have a certain temperament.”
She has also started a clinic for children with chronic pain, from conditions like rheumatoid arthritis or shingles. “People, even doctors, don’t think children can have chronic pain year after year, but they do,” she reflects.
“There’s a bit of stress on some level when you’re actually doing your art and working out how you want everything,” she says. “But it’s nothing like stress at work.”
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