218:(ENT) surgeon at the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Her focus is rhinology, the 'N' of ENT. Speaking about the considerable underrepresentation of women in medicine, Hopkins said, "if I had a pound for every time a patient had asked me (after I examined the patient... and went through the consent process for surgery), 'so will I ever get to meet the Professor Hopkins, is he here?' I would have retired a long time ago,". Hopkins helped to construct international guidelines for the management of
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to better understand the sense of smell of COVID-19 positive patients. Together the team were able to show that there is 95% chance that people who experience a sudden loss of smell without any other symptoms would test positive for COVID-19. Working with ENT UK, the
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