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How this Indigenous mother paved the way for her children to study medicine

Indigenous siblings pursue careers in medicine, following in the footsteps of their mother Mon 8 Jun 2026 at 7:35am Since she was young, Ieesha Nasser knew she wanted to be a doctor. She grew up learning clinical terminology alongside her mother, who was studying for her medical degree. "[Mum] would come home and she would have to memorise all these parts of the skull and I would memorise it with her," Ieesha said.