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In this episode, Thorax social media editor Dr. Puja Mehta speaks with Professor Ian Hall, Director of the Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Nottingham about his paper "Respiratory Research in the UK: investing for the next 10 years". They discuss some of the biggest challenges facing respiratory research in the UK, and why respiratory diseases need more investment. Read the paper here:

https://thorax.bmj.com/content/77/9/851

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Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews British documentary filmmaker, Edward Lovelace. They discuss his film ‘’Name me Lawand’’, a rapturous portrait of a deaf Kurdish boy’s emotional journey towards discovering how to express himself. A love letter to the power of communication and community. Edward describes how he bonded with Lawand and how together they created a poignant film amplifying the voices of the Deaf community and their fight for passing the BSL act in 2022.

Related blog with the transcript of this podcast: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/12/15/lawand-from-voiceless-to-a-voice-representing-the-deaf-community-and-british-sign-language-bsl

Other related links:

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/10/27/listen-without-prejudice/

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2016/04/08/the-reading-room-deaf-gain/ https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2018/08/09/deafhearing-family-life-in-the-silent-child-an-unsympathetic-portrayal/

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/01/05/hearing-happiness-jaipreet-virdi-on-deafness-accessibility-and-her-latest-book/

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/01/21/book-review-hearing-happiness-deafness-cures-in-history/

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In this episode of the Dr. Informed podcast, the topic of discussion is death and dying, and how to involve patients in DNACPR decisions.

The panel discuss the importance of doctors having discussions with patients about end-of-life care as a way of creating the best possible death for patients. The conversation also touches on the challenges that doctors may face when having these difficult discussions and they give some advice on how they to overcome them.

Joining Clara are;

Mark Taubert, palliative care consultant, and national chair of future care planning for the Welsh Government

Kat Shelley, an anaesthetics trainee, who has stage four breast cancer, and is receiving palliative care

Lucy-Anne Frank, an elderly care consultant.

The article "Do not resuscitate me in Barbados" is published by BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, and is free to access at;

https://spcare.bmj.com/content/11/3/310

In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor, Dr James Rudd, is joined by Dr Patricia Campbell the Southern Trust, Northern Ireland. They discuss the important takeaways from the 2021 ESC heart failure guidelines, including the diagnosis of HFpEF, revised BNP cut-offs, cardiac amyloidosis and much more.

This episode is sponsored by an educational grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim-Lilly Alliance. The sponsor has no influence over podcast content, the selection of speakers or any associated educational material.

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Link to published paper:

https://bjcardio.co.uk/2022/07/new-developments-in-the-investigations-and-diagnosis-of-heart-failure/

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Dr. Anna Fagotti. Dr. Fagotti is the director of the ovarian cancer unit at the A. Gemelli IRCCS University Hospital Foundation, ESGO President Elect and member of the ESGO Executive Committee, and Editor of the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer.

Highlights:

-Always practice your skills if you want to excel in minimally invasive surgery: Practice makes perfect.

-The journey is long for a gynecologic oncologist. We can’t foresee the future and plans might have to be adjusted along the way, so try to be flexible on what you have beside you. Try to answer the relevant clinical questions. Don’t create a question just to answer.

-There can be difficulties along the way, but look forward and focus on your aim and don’t get stopped by obstacles. Remember to try to enjoy everything.

In this BJSM podcast Jackie Whittaker discusses the OPTIKNEE consensus clinical and research recommendations. Jackie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, at the University of British Columbia. The OPTIKNEE initiative aims to shine the light on post-traumatic osteoarthritis after traumatic knee injury – who is most at risk, what should we be measuring and how, and what interventions should we be using? Jackie encourages clinicians to think about knee and overall health beyond the short-game of injury rehab and return to sport. There are some great tips on how you can set up patients at risk of post-traumatic osteoarthritis with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to self-manage in the long-term.

OPTIKNEE Consensus Statement https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36379676

OPTIKNEE website and links to systematic reviews: bit.ly/OPTIKNEE

Medicine is a career unlike almost any other. As medical students and junior doctors, we’ve had a lot of experience with strange, surreal moments. The first time you ask a super invasive question to someone you’ve known for all of five minutes, the first time you make an incision in surgery, the first time you do an intimate examination - all of these things can be really strange as they go against our social norms.

Getting used to this is important but no one ever teaches us this in medical school. In everyday life, there are lots of rules that we follow that aren’t written down anywhere. But when we start placements, we have to unlearn years of following those rules and start doing things that conflict with how we would normally act. Join us in this episode as we talk about how strange medicine can be and how best to cope with moments that can sometimes be uncomfortable or awkward.

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Dr Aditi Kumar(1) is joined by Professor Andrew Hopper(2) to discuss the role and importance of endoscopy in patients diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Read the article in Frontline Gastroenterology here: https://fg.bmj.com/content/13/e1/e72

(1) Trainee associate editor for Frontline Gastroenterology and gastroenterology trainee in the West Midlands.

(2) Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK

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In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez, is joined by Dr. Jorge Hoegl to discuss peritoneal carcinomatosis after minimally invasive surgery in cervical cancer. Dr. Jorge Hoegl is an early career gynecologic oncologist at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the General Hospital of the East “Dr. Domingo Luciani” in Caracas, Venezuela.

Highlights:

-Peritoneal carcinomatosis represented more than 15% of all recurrences, with a recurrence rate of 22.2% in minimally invasive surgery compared to 8.8%.

-Peritoneal carcinomatosis has been frequently grouped within distant recurrences and perhaps this made it not such a notorious fact.

-Peritoneal carcinomatosis does not appear to be an unusual recurrence pattern associated with cervical cancer and it should be reported separately.

We release episodes fortnightly. Rosacea is a common disorder. Studies suggest a prevalence of 5% for women and 4% for men. And rosacea can cause a range of problems including papules and pustules, telangiectasias, and eye problems. So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this condition right.

In this BMJ Best Practice podcast on rosacea, Kieran Walsh talks to Dr Abel Jarell, Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist, Northeast Dermatology Associates, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Competing interests: none declared