The Doctor podcast
Welcome to The Doctor podcast, brought to you by the British Medical Association. Each month, we bring you conversations inspired by stories featured in The Doctor magazine written by our multiple award-winning team. We cover all the issues facing the profession, from pay, terms and conditions to art therapy, climate change, recruitment and retention, industrial action and much more. Our episodes are posted monthly, so follow us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, to be the first to find out when a new episode drops.
Episode 3: From all corners
Throughout its history, the NHS has depended on overseas staff, including IMGs (international medical graduates), who come from around the world to care for patients. In this episode, Somto Ogbuagu, Lisa Rampersad and Marvee Zakaria discuss their experiences, insights and advice for other IMGs – from the difficulties of being far from family during the COVID-19 pandemic, to the difference in workplace culture and the shock of the British weather.
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A feature article relating to this episode will be published for Overseas NHS Workers’ Day on 7 March 2025.
Episode 2: Life in colour
Art is one of the many tools that doctors can use to help heal and treat patients. Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Sabina Dosani has experienced this, on both sides of the stethoscope. Art psychotherapist and clinical research fellow Megan Tjasink has been studying how art therapy can help healthcare professionals suffering with burnout, with promising findings. They bring together their perspectives in this conversation.
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This episode builds on the feature article ‘Life in Colour’, by Tim Tonkin
Episode 1: The lost art of listening
The ways that patients and doctors can feel silenced or dismissed in medicine – and how we can change this – is the focus of Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan’s book Unheard: the medical practice of silencing.
'I'm a doctor and I don't always listen well,' Dr Dhairyawan says. 'I really want to and I want to be a good listener, but I don't always do so. I really wanted to understand what made it hard for us as doctors to listen better.'
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This episode builds on the feature article ‘The lost art of listening’ by Seren Boyd
