Amal Paul is a GP in Leeds, for whom the most rewarding aspect of the job is the feeling of having done something positive for someone every day. He considers seeing a child's smiling face or hearing a thank you from a patient a wonderful reward. His job is to treat not only the patient, but also their family and community, and he enjoys building relationships with patients, getting to know their families, and seeing their children grow up. He was born and raised in Pak Hili, a picturesque village in Bangladesh in the 1950s. There were no qualified doctors in the village of more than twenty thousand inhabitants. His mother wanted him to become a doctor and take care of the local community. He started the pre-medical course in 1969 at a government institution. He witnessed the endless suffering that shaped his path to medicine from the refugee camp.