The BMJ Podcast

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The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.

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Life Support - Being a comp...

11.30.2021

In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Ayisha Ashmore - and they're getting to grips with being a compassionate colleague. While the topic might seem warm and fuzzy, there's some good hard science to suggest that ...

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11.30.2021 Life Support - Being a compassionate colleague In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Ayisha Ashmore - and they're getting to grips with being a compassionate colleague. While the topic might seem warm and fuzzy, there's some good hard science to suggest that ...
11.26.2021 Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone? In the wellbeing podcast, the dread topic of phone usage has come up again - how social media, and an "always on" culture can affect our wellbeing. But knowing that, and changing our behaviour are two different things - so ...
11.16.2021 Doctor Informed - The patterns which emerge When you hear the reports from a major patient safety issue, it will be shocking to hear how they have played out - but the patterns in behaviour, of people and institutions which have gone disastrously wrong, can be seen ...
11.05.2021 Talk Evidence - Bones, nutrition, pain relief, and overdiagnosis. In this month’s Talk evidence, we’re going back to our roots and avoiding covid - so sit back and listen to Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross discuss a new nutrition study to prevent fractures in older adults by eating dairy, ...
10.24.2021 Introducing Doctor Informed Doctor Informed is a new podcast for hospital doctors, from The BMJ - created in collaboration with THIS Institute, and sponsored by Medical Protection. Medical expertise is fundamental to the practice of medicine. But other skills and knowledge are important ...
10.24.2021 Wellbeing - QI approach to improving your wellbeing It's easy to decide to do something like exercise, or a hobby to improve your wellbeing, but actually following through and make that a regular part of your week can be much harder. In this podcast, Pedro Delgado, vice president ...
10.17.2021 Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal In this podcast series, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ will convene experts from South Asia to discuss how the pandemic has affected the region, how measures like lock-down and vaccination have been handled, and the impact of the ...
09.29.2021 Talk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract infections, cannabis for pain, & covid outcomes This week our regular panelists, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross, are joined by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine - to take a primary care focussed look at what's been happening in the world of evidence. ...
09.24.2021 Wellbeing - tired or fatigued, and why the difference might matter There has been a lot of work on the way in which surgeon's are affected by tiredness - and the whole medical workforce can probably relate to their experience. But there's a difference between tiredness and fatigue, and that difference ...
09.18.2021 The future of Afghan healthcare The infrastructure of Afghanistan healthcare is under threat, as international agencies who run clinics withdraw from the country. At the same time, some of the healthcare workforce are leaving the country, while those who remain face the prospect of their ...
09.09.2021 Healthcare In Afghanistan Now The final evacuation planes have left Kabul airport, and Afghanistan’s government have ceded power to the Taliban. Amongst the international community, worries about what that transition of power means for the people of Afghanistan have centred around the rights of ...
09.03.2021 Talk Evidence - real world vaccine data, GP records and CVD In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald and Joe Ross are back with a wry look at the world of Evidence Based Medicine. They give us a round up of real world data emerging to address various uncertainties about vaccinations ...
08.27.2021 Junior doctors improving hospital wellbeing The Midlands Charter, is a set of principles that hospitals in the midlands region of England have signed up to, to improve the health and wellbeing of trainees working in the area. It was created in a huge collaboration of ...
08.13.2021 Wellbeing - scheduling and burnout Rota gaps are a big problem when it comes to loading stress on the medical workforce, and there is big pressure to spread the workforce as evenly as possible across wards and shifts. However the tyranny of the rota - ...
08.05.2021 Women’s health and gender inequalities - Legislating for change It's been 25 years since the declaration on the rights of women, was signed in Beijing - and in that time the landscape of health car inequity has changed. To celebrate we created 3 podcasts, in collaboration with The WHO ...
07.30.2021 Wellbeing - surveying the mental health of NHS staff In the wellbeing podcast, we have had a lot of personal experience of the pandemic, and schemes to support staff - but always we've wanted to know if there's research which can tell us how universal those experiences have been. ...
07.21.2021 Talk Evidence - Freedom Day The 19th of July in the UK saw the relaxation of covid rules that have been in place for 18 months - social distancing requirements in venues, mask wearing in public will no longer be legally mandated. There are a ...
07.15.2021 Women’s health and gender inequalities - The science of women's health It's been 25 years since the declaration on the rights of women, was signed in Beijing - and in that time the landscape of health car inequity has changed. To celebrate we created 3 podcasts, in collaboration with The WHO ...
07.08.2021 Wellbeing - the need for culturally aware support We know the pandemic has disproportionately affected the NHS workers who come from a ethnic minorities, we also know that doctors from an ethnic minority face additional barriers to accessing support - so how well have the various support schemes ...
06.28.2021 Women's health and gender inequalities - Campaigning for change It's been 25 years since the declaration on the rights of women, was signed in Beijing - and in that time the landscape of health car inequity has changed. To celebrate we created 3 podcasts, in collaboration with The WHO ...
06.20.2021 Talk Evidence - GP data, excess mortality and FDA approval In this Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, Joe Ross and Duncan Jarvies discuss what's going on in the world of EBM. Firstly, a while ago on the podcast, we concluded that excess mortality would be the best way to measure the ...
06.04.2021 Wellbeing - are men worse at sounding the alarm about their mental health? We've been bringing you stories of doctors wellbeing for a while in the podcast, but we noticed a pattern. Woman would come on and talk about their own difficulties, men would talk about other peoples - so we wanted to ...
05.28.2021 Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK's response Finally it seems that life might return to normal in the UK, as the vaccination efforts continue apace, and despite concern about increasingly spreading variants, our hospitals are not being overwhelmed. Because of this, we are changing our approach to ...
05.21.2021 Wellbeing - Questions to ask yourself, if you think medicine may no longer be for you The pandemic has wrought a lot of change, not least to doctors relationship to their careers. While still loving the patient interaction, we're increasingly hearing that doctors are disillusioned with the other aspects of medicine. If you're feeling that way, ...
05.14.2021 Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19. They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at ...
05.07.2021 Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare This interview is part of our BMJ interview series, where we talk to the people who are changing medicine. The series thus far has been a bit male dominated - reflecting the leadership in medicine at the moment, if not ...
04.29.2021 Wellbeing - Humanising medicine In medicine, a lot of work has been done to encourage person centred care - but can that maxim be extended to the people working within the healthcare system? Subodh Dave has just been elected as dean of the Royal ...
04.22.2021 Wellbeing - After shielding On this wellbeing podcast, Abi and Cat are joined by Emma Lishman, a clinical psychologist and part of the North Bristol NHS Trust's staff wellbeing team.Emma helps doctors return to training after a break - be that for maternity leave, ...
04.14.2021 Coronavirus second wave - headaches abound Recorded on Tuesday 13th of April, as the shops open in the UK, and England is heading to the beer gardens. The roll out of the vaccination programme has completed its first phase, and second doses have been given to ...
04.10.2021 Measure the broader impacts of healthcare The synergistic linking of increasing health and wealth is broadly accepted - it's an integral part of the thinking between the Sustainable Development Goals, and the World Bank's call for universal healthcare as a way of boosting a country's economy. ...
04.02.2021 Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update The evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale. This week we update you on treatment - ...
03.25.2021 Coronavirus second wave - vaccination roll out changes, uncertainty about long covid In the UK, phase 2 of our coronavirus vaccination strategy may be delayed by supply problems, at the same time many GPs, who carried out the majority of the first vaccination phases, are declining to take on the addition burden ...
03.18.2021 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 ...
03.15.2021 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 ...
03.12.2021 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 ...
03.08.2021 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 ...
03.03.2021 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 ...
02.26.2021 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 ...
02.19.2021 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 ...
02.17.2021 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 ...
02.12.2021 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 ...
02.12.2021 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 ...
02.09.2021 Neil Greenberg on tackling PTSD in the NHS Neil Greenberg is a psychiatrist, and professor of Defence Mental Health at King's College London. He spent 23 in the military, and now continues to work with them on things like peer led traumatic stress support packages. A recent survey ...
02.08.2021 The BMJ interview - Jeremy Hunt MP Jeremy Hunt probably needs no introduction to our audience - the UK's longest serving health minister, he now chairs Westminster's Health and Social Care Committee - the powerful committee that holds the government to account for its policy choices. In ...
02.04.2021 Coronavirus second wave - The NHS one year on The "public health emergency of international concern" was issued by the WHO a year and a lifetime ago. As the UK ramps up testing for the South African virus variant, and is full steam ahead on vaccination, we look back ...
02.02.2021 The BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were prepared It’s been just over a year since the WHO declared the pandemic a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” - if you cast your mind back to then, the news was full of reassurances about how prepared the UK and ...
01.27.2021 Coronavirus second wave - 100,000 deaths Recorded on the 26th January 2021 The UK has become, officially, the worst performing country in terms of Covid-19 deaths, per head of population - and the number of people in hospital is still higher than at any point in ...
01.20.2021 Coronavirus second wave - The view from the front line In the UK, over 37,000 people are in hospital with covid-19, and the NHS comes closer than ever to being overwhelmed - though 4 million people have received their first dose of the vaccine, we are warned that things will ...
01.19.2021 The BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden era US president elect Joe Biden wasted no time in appointing a special advisory board of experts to guide America out of its coronavirus crisis. One of those experts is Celine Gounder, an infectious diseases epidemiologist who has worked on Ebola, ...
01.16.2021 Talk Evidence - Lateral flow tests update, not the best public health approach In this episode of Talk Evidence, Jon Deeks, professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, returns to the pod with an update on lateral flow tests - and why the government plan for using them in asymptomatic screening for ...

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What's The BMJ Podcast about?

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The BMJ Podcast episodes:

Life Support - Being a compassionate colleague

Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone?

Doctor Informed - The patterns which emerge

Talk Evidence - Bones, nutrition, pain relief, and overdiagnosis.

Introducing Doctor Informed

Wellbeing - QI approach to improving your wellbeing

Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal

Talk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract infections, cannabis for pain, & covid outcomes

Wellbeing - tired or fatigued, and why the difference might matter

The future of Afghan healthcare

Healthcare In Afghanistan Now

Talk Evidence - real world vaccine data, GP records and CVD

Junior doctors improving hospital wellbeing

Wellbeing - scheduling and burnout

Women’s health and gender inequalities - Legislating for change

Wellbeing - surveying the mental health of NHS staff

Talk Evidence - Freedom Day

Women’s health and gender inequalities - The science of women's health

Wellbeing - the need for culturally aware support

Women's health and gender inequalities - Campaigning for change

Talk Evidence - GP data, excess mortality and FDA approval

Wellbeing - are men worse at sounding the alarm about their mental health?

Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK's response

Wellbeing - Questions to ask yourself, if you think medicine may no longer be for you

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia

Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare

Wellbeing - Humanising medicine

Wellbeing - After shielding

Coronavirus second wave - headaches abound

Measure the broader impacts of healthcare

Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update

Coronavirus second wave - vaccination roll out changes, uncertainty about long covid

Wellbeing - Put yourself first

What should "following the science" mean for government policy?

Talk Evidence - Inside the JCVI, and the key to grading evidence

Stephen Thomas - Behind the scenes in the Pfizer vaccine trial

Coronavirus second wave - cancelled surgery, increasing waiting lists

Wellbeing - speaking out about mental health in the NHS

The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest

Corona virus second wave - Palliative care, and online abuse

Wellbeing special - A post vaccination mindfullness moment

Talk Evidence - re-hospitalistion for covid-19, remote hypertension intervention

Neil Greenberg on tackling PTSD in the NHS

The BMJ interview - Jeremy Hunt MP

Coronavirus second wave - The NHS one year on

The BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were prepared

Coronavirus second wave - 100,000 deaths

Coronavirus second wave - The view from the front line

The BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden era

Talk Evidence - Lateral flow tests update, not the best public health approach

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