BMJ talk medicine

Rachel Levine Trained as a paediatrician, before becoming firstly the state of Pennsylvania's Physician General, then its Health Secretary.

During president Joe Biden's administration, she was nominated to become the U.S.'s assistant secretary of health. That lead to her becoming a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and thus the first openly transgender four-star officer in the US.

In this podcast, we discussed the pandemic - but also wider problems affecting Americans' health, notably climate change, inequality and the opioid crisis. We also discuss the health and care of LGBT+ people, in the U.S, and around the world.

This interview was recorded on the 16th of December 2021.

In this episode of the IJGC Podcast, Editorial Fellow Felix Boria discusses the contents of the January issue of IJGC in Spanish.

In part 2 of this podcast series Dr Adam Weir talks to Associate Professor Robert-Jan de Vos about the recently published Dutch multidisciplinary guideline on Achilles tendinopathy. They give a clinically focused overview that all practitioners will find invaluable.

They discuss:

Conservative treatment

The role of surgery

Prognosis

Secondary prevention

Links

https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/sets/bjsm-1?si=ed9b271d1d7140ca81ecfbb201ec42ae&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/20/1125