Healthy Discussions

Dr Abdullah Albeyatti is CEO of Medicalchain, a company tackling a big problem in healthcare. They want your electronic healthcare record to follow you around the health system and be under your control. Currently, healthcare data doesn't easily communicate between hospitals, creating all kinds of havoc.  

In this podcast, Abdullah and Zack discuss the use of blockchain technology for health records, the attitude of NHS decision makers towards innovation, whether EHRs should be monetised and marketised, the potential advantages and drawbacks if decentralised health records become a reality, the attitude you need to become a surgeon or entrepreneur; and more!  

Abdullah gives helpful anecdotes and tips along the way and I chip in with my thoughts on the underlying trends.

// Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4GCUxdYe3qs

// About the host

Dr Zack Hassan is a trainee in Internal Medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated from Medicine at Cambridge University in 2018. His podcast hosting combines insights from the NHS frontline with experience in debating a wide range of topics at the Cambridge Union.

// Links

Abdullah's e-book (FREE)

MedicalChain's Twitter

MedicalChain's White Paper

// Socials

–> Twitter - @MontereyZack 

-> LinkedIn

-> Weekly Email (free) "Thinking Allowed" 

-> YouTube Channel 

// Credits

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Would you want to be the top doctor at the BBC? Ask Dr Clare Fernandes. She is a specialist in Occupational Health who advises the Beeb on everything from its Covid-19 policy to mental health of journalists coming back from warzones.  

Crossposted from HLA Live, Zack talked to Clare about her career path, the lessons in leadership she has learned, and how the BBC has coped with Coronavirus.

// About the host

Dr Zack Hassan is a trainee in Internal Medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated from Medicine at Cambridge University in 2018. His podcast hosting combines insights from the NHS frontline with experience in debating a wide range of topics at the Cambridge Union.

// Socials

–> Twitter - @MontereyZack 

-> LinkedIn

-> Weekly Email (free) "Thinking Allowed" 

-> YouTube Channel 

Can we make Artifical Intelligence in Healthcare ethically? How do we ensure AI is safe for patients? And how good are the contingency plans for the AI that is already being used in the NHS? 

Dr Fawz Kazzazi suggests more guidance is needed. Fawz is a Core Surgical Trainee in London, and studying for a Masters in Law and Medical Ethics at Edinburgh University. He studied Medicine at Cambridge University and has published a classification of medical in the Journal of Future Health.

Fawz and Zack discuss the implications of black-boxes in healthcare, Elon Musk's view on deregulation being needed for innovation, whether software companies have a duty of care if AI has unintended consequences, and what the health system needs to do to stay ahead of technology.

// Links

Fawz's Twitter - @DrKazzazi

Fawz's Paper in the Future Healthcare Journal

Fawz's Book recommendations -  The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle, The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Ray Kurzweil predicts computers will pass the Turing Test by 2029

C-the Signs 

Ageism in DNAR orders

The Caparo Test

// About the host

Zack Hassan is a junior doctor based in Edinburgh and a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar. His podcast hosting combines insights from the NHS frontline with experience in debating a wide range of topics at the Cambridge Union.

// Socials

–> Twitter - @MontereyZack 

-> LinkedIn

-> Weekly Email (free) "Thinking Allowed" 

-> YouTube Channel 

// Credits

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Photo: Nick Saffel

// Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals.

Dolly Theis is not your usual public health policy academic. She stood as a Conservative Party candidate in the 2017 general election, winning 10,000 votes in Vauxhall. As a One-Nation Tory, Dolly has also campaigned on environmental and food issues. She has also been involved with initiatives like 50:50 Parliament (for gender balance in Westminster) and the veteran's charity Forward Assist. 

She is undertaking a PhD at Cambridge University’s MRC Epidemiology Unit, researching how policy makers use evidence and the processes that influence change in public health.

In this conversation, Zack and Dolly find points of agreement on health and obesity policy despite coming from different political perspectives, and discuss the grit and thought needed to refine your political beliefs early in life, especially in response to criticism. They also explore the different levers government has to improve our health, why a different approach to policymaking would be advantageous, and how to create a world where research and policy are fully integrated with each other.

// Links

Dolly's Twitter - @Dollytheis

Dolly's Book recommedations -  Health is Made at Home by Nigel Crisp, On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

// About the host

Zack Hassan is a junior doctor based in Edinburgh and a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar. His podcast hosting combines his experience of debating at the Cambridge Union with insights from the NHS frontline.

Socials 

–> Twitter - @MontereyZack 

-> LinkedIn

-> Weekly Email, "Thinking Allowed" 

-> YouTube Channel 

// Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

// Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals, including through HLA Listen, their podcasting channel.

Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West support the podcast by sponsoring HLA Listen.

Medics.Academy is an online platform which provides technology enhanced learning solutions for organisations and individuals.

Dr Lade Smith CBE is Director of Forensic Services at South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust and 2019's Psychiatrist of the Year. Her background as an intensive care forensic psychiatrist has given her insight into the stories of family psychological trauma that are prevalent amongst the UK's violent offenders. She is also an advocate for race equality and has published research examining racial disaprities in the use of detention orders under the Mental Health Act. Zack and Lade discussed how criminality and mental illness can be traced back to adverse childhood experiences, the need for early intervention, and the role doctors should play in changing policy and preventing discrimination.

Links

Lade's Twitter - @DrLadeSmith

Lade's Book recommedations - Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About the host

Zack Hassan is a junior doctor based in Edinburgh and a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar. His podcast hosting combines his experience of debating at the Cambridge Union with insights from the NHS front-line.

Twitter – @MontereyZack 

Zack's LinkedIn

Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals, including through HLA Listen, their podcasting channel.

Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West support the podcast by sponsoring HLA Listen.

Medics.Academy is an online platform which provides technology enhanced learning solutions for organisations and individuals.

Professor Partha Kar OBE is a Consultant Endocrinologist in Portsmouth, the National Specialty Advisor to NHS England for Diabetes and Obesity, and the National Associate Clinical Director for Diabetes. He is well recognised by the Type 1 Diabetes community for projects such as TAD talks (Talking about Diabetes), improving access to non-invasive Libre sensors, and his social media presence. He has also co-founded other initiatives such as the Super Six model for diabetes care, Language Matters with NHS improvement to change the language clinicians use with patients, and Getting it Right First Time.

In this conversation, Partha and Zack discuss how much power consultants have to make change happen, the value of good senior mentors, how important it is to be honest with patients, the issue of racial prejudice, and the skills and strategies he's used for successful negotiation.

Links

Partha's book recommendation - Civil War (Marvel Comics) by Mark Millar & Steve McNiven

Twitter - @parthaskar

Partha's LinkedIn

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About the host

Zack Hassan is a junior doctor based in Edinburgh and a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar. His podcast hosting combines his experience of debating at the Cambridge Union with insights from the NHS front-line.

Twitter – @MontereyZack 

Zack's LinkedIn 

Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals, including through HLA Listen, their podcasting channel.

Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West support the podcast by sponsoring HLA Listen.

Medics.Academy is an online platform which provides technology enhanced learning solutions for organisations and individuals.

Carey Lunan is a GP in Craigmillar, Edinburgh and Chair of the DeepEnd Group, made up of the 100 GP practices in Scotland's most deprived areas. She has also been chair of the Royal College of GPs in Scotland, leading on reports to government and policy, and representing the profession in mainstream media. She has a long-standing interest in health inequality and is a familiary contributor to public discourse concerning health issues in Scotland.

In this conversation, Carey and Zack discuss a range of ideas, including what's different about medicine in deprived populations, the trade-off between access and continuity in healthcare, the opportunities for the NHS during pandemic recovery, lessons learned from Covid-19, the problem of burnout and much more.

Links

Twitter - @CareyLunan

Carey's book recommendation - Intelligent Kindness: Reforming the culture of healthcare by Ballat and Campling - 

DeepEnd Website via Glasgow University - https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/generalpractice/deepend/

DeepEnd Twitter - @DeepEndGP

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About the host

Zack Hassan is a junior doctor based in Edinburgh and a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar. His podcast hosting combines his experience of debating at the Cambridge Union with insights from the NHS front-line.

Twitter – @MontereyZack 

Zack's LinkedIn 

Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals, including through HLA Listen, their podcasting channel.

Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West support the podcast by sponsoring HLA Listen.

Medics.Academy is an online platform which provides technology enhanced learning solutions for organisations and individuals.

Richie Cartwright is Co-founder at Fella, a global community-driven digital health platform to guide men through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Binge Eating. He founded and sold the company Flow X, which worked with the UK government on improving traffic flow using artificial intelligence. An avid entrepreneur and economics graduate from Cambridge, he is determined to share his own story of struggling with binge eating to help the millions of other people who have it too, both men and women.

In this conversation, Richie and Zack discuss how to look after our mental health from day to day, how to face binge eating disorder, the difficulties facing men which discourage them from seeking help, and much, much more.

Links

Richie's book recommendation - Overcoming Binge Eating by Dr Christopher Fairburn

Fella's Website

Twitter - @rich_cartwright

Richie's LinkedIn  

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About the host

Zack Hassan is a junior doctor based in Edinburgh and a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar. His podcast hosting combines his experience of debating at the Cambridge Union with insights from the NHS front-line.

Twitter – @MontereyZack 

Zack's LinkedIn 

Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals, including through HLA Listen, their podcasting channel.

Health Education England North East and Health Education England South West support the podcast by sponsoring HLA Listen.

Medics.Academy is an online platform which provides technology enhanced learning solutions for organisations and individuals.

Born in Belfast, Dr Philippa Whitford studied medicine in the West of Scotland before specialising in breast surgery. She has been a Consultant Breast Surgeon for 19 years, and is now the MP for Central Ayrshire and the Westminster spokesperson on Health and Europe for the Scottish National Party. Over her career she has studied Breast Cancer Immunology for her MD dissertation, worked as a medical volunteer in Palestine, reformed the Breast Cancer service in Ayrshire and sat on the Health Select committee.

In this inspiring conversation, Philippa and Zack discuss the misogyny she experienced as a young surgeon in the 1980s, the advantages of gaining experience abroad, whether we need more doctors in front-line politics, the coronavirus pandemic and much more.

Philippa's Links

The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

The Health Gap by Michael Marmot

Twitter - @Dr_PhilippaW 

Music - Overriding Concern by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4187-overriding-concern

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Our Supporters

The Healthcare Leadership Academy has a mission to inspire the next generation of healthcare leaders. They have lots of opportunities on their website for a variety of health professionals, including through HLA Listen, their podcasting channel.

The Medical Defence Union is a medical indemnity organisation. They support the podcast by sponsoring HLA Listen.