- After working as a print journalist in Surrey and then as a reporter for Newsround (1972), she retrained as a doctor at the age of 36 and specialised as an ophthalmologist. In December 2000, she launched a non-profit organisation, Second Sight, to bring cataract eye surgeons into rural north India where the problem is particularly acute.
- She plays bass guitar in the band Startled Saint which she and her partner Mark Rees formed in the 1970s.
- On her first night on-call as a junior doctor, a patient saw her name badge "Dr L Mathen" and asked "Is your first name Lucy?" - he had recognised her from Newsround (1972).
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