ABSTRACT
The author of this chapter is a consultant respiratory physician with a specialist interest in tuberculosis (TB). I undertook my undergraduate studies at the London Hospital Medical College, Whitechapel, London, UK, which is in the heart of London’s ‘East End’. During my postgraduate training I studied for a full-time Master’s degree in Medical Anthropology and subsequently wrote my doctoral thesis on ‘Cultural Barriers to the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the Bangladeshi Community of East London, UK’. I am currently clinical lead for the Tuberculosis (TB) service at Barts Health NHS Trust, which serves a community of one million in East London. The service treats over 600 cases of active TB per year and is one of the largest TB services in Western Europe. 1
