Ten years after a motorcycle accident left Triston Griffith fighting for his life, he now walks the wards of the Georgetown Public Hospital hoping that he can repay the numerous chances he has been given by saving lives.
The newly-minted doctor is one of the 380 students to graduate from the Faculty of Health Sciences this year. Though Griffith, 27, has always been passionate about psychology, his desire to remain in Guyana has led him to clinical studies. He related to Sunday Stabroek News that at 18 he was advised by psychiatrist Dr Bhiro Harry to consider studying medicine. Harry told him the realities of Guyana might mean that psychology could not give him the quality of life he wished but “a man will always need somebody to look after his wound.”
Today, Griffith studies medicine as a means to an end. “I have always been interested in people and how they think, why they do what they do,” he said, while explaining that he became a medical doctor on his path to psychological studies: with a medical degree it is now more likely he’ll be a psychiatrist.
He also noted that his own experience
