Medicine and Science from The BMJ

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March 18, 2021 Wellbeing - Put yourself first
In this Wellbeing podcast, sponsored by medical protection, Abi Rimmer and Cat Chatfield talk to Susanna Petche and Reina Popat, GPs and members of First You - an organisation of healthcare workers, promoting wellbeing in the NHS.
They discuss why it is that clinicians learn to subjugate their own wellbeing to their patients', and the ways in which working in the healthcare system perpetuate that. They discuss how systemic change can come through individual action, and how peers can band together to support each other.
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44min
March 15, 2021 What should ”following the science” mean for government policy?
This round table, recorded at the nuffield summit 2021, asks what does following the science actually mean - do ministers understand the nuance of the science in the pandemic, and how does uncertainty get interpreted through the lens of ideology and the power of compelling stories.
Taking part are:
Kamran Abassi, executive editor of The BMJ
Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology
Deborah Cohen, health correspondent for BBC Newsnight
Tom Sasse, associate director at the Institute for Government
Christina Pagel, professor of Operational Research at University College London
Matt Morgan, intensive care consultant
Andy McKeon, chair of the Nuffield Trust
Isobel Hardman, assistant editor of The Spectator
Mary Dixon-Woods, director of This Institute
Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI
Alexandra Freeman, executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication
Will Moy, chief executive of Full Fact
Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust
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59min
March 12, 2021 Talk Evidence - Inside the JCVI, and the key to grading evidence
In a slightly different talk evidence, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are bringing you a couple, of in depth interviews,
Firstly, Anthony Harnden, GP, academic and member of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation takes us inside their decision making, and explains what evidence they look at, how they assess it, and what the next year of vaccination may look like.
Also in this episode, Gordon Guyatt, one of the founders of EBM, joins us to talk about Grade - the framework in which evidence for guidelines can be assessed - and explains why the most important thing is not the RCTs, but being very clear about what the guideline is supposed to achieve.
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committee-on-vaccination-and-immunisation
https://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/
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56min
March 08, 2021 Stephen Thomas - Behind the scenes in the Pfizer vaccine trial
Never has the spotlight been as strong on a clinical trial as that on the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, the first approved for covid-19.
In this interview, Joanne Silberner spoke to its lead principal investigator, Stephen Thomas chief of infectious diseases at SUNY Upstate Medical University, New York, became the lead principal investigator for one of the most closely watched clinical trials in history.
They discuss the moment the positive results came through, what will happen to the people who are still enrolled in the trial, but got a placebo dose, and why the trial was designed in the way it was.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus
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33min
March 03, 2021 Coronavirus second wave - cancelled surgery, increasing waiting lists
Many surgeries have been cancelled during the pandemic, with good reason, as early data showed the increase in mortality associated with a coronavirus infection, but now waiting lists grow, and there are questions about how the NHS will pick up the slack.
In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, talks to the full panel; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Matt Morgan, a consultant in a intensive care medicine in Cardiff, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Nisreen Alwan, public health consultant in Southampton.
They are joined by Mary Venn, research fellow, and honorary surgical registrar in London, who's been looking into the pandemic's effect on surgery. For more on that research:
http://nihrglobalsurgery.org/surgeryduringcovid
To register for our covid known unknowns webinar - https://www.bmj.com/covid-19-webinars
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44min
February 26, 2021 Wellbeing - speaking out about mental health in the NHS
Ashling Lillis is a now consultant in acute medicine at Whittington Health NHS Trust, but she was almost a consultant in intensive care medicine - but a mental health crisis just 6 months before she qualified made her reassess her career, and choose a different path.
In this podcast, Ash talks to Abi and Cat about the difficulty many doctors have when discussing their mental health - and how speaking out about her own experiences, has encouraged others to talk to her privately - and opened her eyes to the extent of the problem in the NHS.
www.bmj.com/wellbeing
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46min
February 19, 2021 The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest
Jeremy Farrar, is director of the Wellcome Trust, as well as advisor to the government on SAGE. Trained as a medic and with a PhD in neuro-immunology, he was a professor of Tropical Medicine and Global health at the University of Oxford.
In this podcast, he tells us why he thinks that vaccine nationalism is a very short-termist response the pandemic, and why he's bullish about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
www.bmj.com/coronavirus
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34min
February 17, 2021 Corona virus second wave - Palliative care, and online abuse
In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, talks to; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Helen Salisbury, GP in Oxfordshire, and Nisreen Alwan, public health consultant in Southampton. This week our special guest is Rachel Clarke, author and palliative care specialist.
The panel discuss how end of life care has changed in the pandemic, and how clinicians have become targets of abuse on social media, for speaking out about things like masks and hospital capacity.
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43min
February 12, 2021 Wellbeing special - A post vaccination mindfullness moment
The observation period, after receiving a covid-19 vaccination may be the only 15 minutes someone in the NHS might get all day.
In this podcast, we're joined again by Chris Bu, psychiatry trainee who has previously spoken to us about how Burmese Buddhism helped him in his training.
He takes us through a guided mindfullness meditation, tailored to that post-vaccination period, to help you make the most of your observation time.
www.bmj.com/wellbeing
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12min
February 12, 2021 Talk Evidence - re-hospitalistion for covid-19, remote hypertension intervention
The evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale.
This week we pick up on a preprint in medRxiv, which has been attracting attention on social media - it tries to look at the longer term effects of covid hospitalisation.
Joe explains why he thinks propensity matching can be summarised as "doing your best".
Finally, as more and more care moves remotely, we discuss a trial on a digital intervention to help manage poorly controlled hypertension remotely.
Reading list:
Epidemiology of post-COVID syndrome following hospitalisation with
coronavirus: a retrospective cohort study
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.21249885v1.full.pdf
Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure (HOME BP) using a digital intervention in poorly controlled hypertension: randomised controlled trial
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.m4858
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