“You have people’s lives in your hands and you don’t want to screw that up.”

Dr. Mandy Bergstrom

Emergency Department

After beginning a career as a police officer, Mandy asked the internet if 26 was too old to become a doctor.

Now a fifth-year ED registrar in Invercargill, with shifts that are intense and unpredictable, Mandy is thriving in the ‘organised chaos’ of Emergency Medicine, being there for her patients at their most vulnerable.