- How people get into medicine (and often don't know what they've for themselves into!)

- The difficulty of getting good work experience in caring professions

- The tension around quitting and "falling out of love" with a career

- How immature people's brains are when they make career decisions

- What training to be a medical doctor looks like

- The transition from lecture based learning to experiential learning (hospital placements)

- Progressing from observing to working "with life and death"

- The complexity of people and illness

- Doctor / Patient power dynamics

- Are we using the best processes to teach people to become Doctors?

- Does the training for medicine work in opposition to the practice it requires?

- How GPs are like a multi petal flower

- Shift patterns, circadian rhythms and sleep

- Researching how to make ourselves healthier

- Complimentary medicine

- The difficulty of filtering evidence for validity and efficacy

- Personalised medicine

- The difficulty of explaining the rationale behind treatment options

- The importance of supporting the mental health of medical professionals

- Health as opposed to physical and mental health

- Peer supervision as a way of unsticking

- Collective intelligence

- The Hippocratic oath

- "Is there a doctor on the plane?" and the morality of helping.



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