The YODPOD

Hello and welcome to this episode of the YOD pod. In this episode, we have the edit of the You Okay, Doc? Microstep webinar on ''COVID-19 and mental health: The Medic within the medical system''.  The response to the COVID -19 pandemic has shaken the world and had a massive impact on each of us within the healthcare setting here we discuss some of the factors affecting healthcare professionals mental health and how COVID-19 has impacted this.  Host and psychotherapist Chris Cherry is joined by former World health care organisation Director for Mental health and current professor of Global Mental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of public health  Professor Shekhar Saxena to discuss this important topic.

The Microstep webinar series is brought to you by You Okay, Doc? In partnership with First Responders First,  First Responders First is an initiative by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, CAA Foundation and Thrive global.  This series of webinars use the microsteps available on You Okay, Doc? and First Responders First website as a platform to provide advice and practical tips for health care professionals to help utilise and explore small, actionable and science-backed steps that healthcare professionals can take to make immediate changes in their daily life and work.

To see the full webinar check out our youtube channel at The Microsteps Webinar Series

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time of the recording. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD pod.  In this weeks conversation with our host and resident You Okay Doc Trustee and therapist  Chris Cherry we have Dan, and Mark discussing the You Okay Doc Microstep webinar series so far. Teamwork was certainly a standout theme.  We chat about some of our own thoughts and highlights and what some of the things we have taken away from some of the amazing guest speakers we have had so far.

To catch up on the webinar series check out our youtube channel at The Microsteps Webinar Series

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time of the recording. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Hello and welcome to this week's YOD pod.  In this weeks conversation with our host and resident You OKay, Doc? trustee and therapist  Chris Cherry we have Dan, Jonathan and Mark discussing what led them to their current career specialities and some of the highs and lows in those choices.  I hope you enjoy it.

We have another exciting webinar series and we hope you'll join us in that too, please check out our website and Instagram page to learn more.

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time of the recording. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Welcome to episode 15 of the YOD pod.  In this episode, we start to discuss what we see burnout as and some of our thoughts and feelings around this.  It's a big topic and we just skimmed the surface on our own opinions of it with insight from host Chris Cherry.  We have another exciting webinar series coming soon and we hope you'll join us in that too, please check out our website and Instagram page to learn more.

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time of the recording. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

 Welcome to episode 14 of the YOD pod!  We are going back to the feeling of guilt, but in this episode, we also talk about it as an important emotion and some of the positive aspects around guilt.  We recorded this a little while ago when a lot of hospitals still had COVID rotas and just after Guilt part 1, so if you have not yet had the chance to listen to that one please check it out.  We have another exciting webinar series coming soon and we hope you'll join us in that too.  

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Welcome back to the YOD pod, its episode 13.  In this podcast we welcome fellow ambassador and paediatric registrar Jonathan to the conversation. In this podcast Jonathan, Dan and Mark chat to Chris Cherry about their working week as doctors. Along the way, we start to consider mindfulness and how it could benefit us.  

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Welcome back to episode 12 of the YOD pod.  Chris is back in the steering wheel and we are discussing shift patterns as a doctor and some of the ways Dan and Mark have adapted to them including some of impacts working shifts have on doctors.   Shift work, their effects and sleep are areas we hope to expand on in the future.  We hope you enjoy it  

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Welcome to episode 11 of the YOD pod.  This week is slightly different and we are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of You Okay, Doc?  In this podcast Founder Dan Gearon and Founding trustee Chris Cherry reflect on how and why the charity was set up, how it has evolved and a small sneak peak at what's ahead.  We've really evolved over the last year and look forward to being bigger and better over the coming year.

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Welcome to episode 10 of the YOD pod.  In this week's podcast we are discussing changeover.  Changeover is a huge part of starting our journey as doctors and then after the first one, we experience similar events as we move between jobs and training programmes.  Here we discuss a few of our thoughts on when we first started as doctors and a few tips for changeover.  To everyone starting out or moving on we at You Okay, Doc? Wish you the very best of luck.

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!

Welcome to episode 9 of the YOD pod.  This week's podcast is a discussion on the last of the ''Emotional and Mental Health in the age of the virus''  webinar series in which we reflect on some of the thoughts and topics brought up by esteemed cardiothoracic surgeon Mr. Aman Coonar on the webinar and some of the things we took away from this.  We called this podcast sangfroid as it is at the very heart of Mr Coonars approach.  To watch the webinar with Mr Coonar and Chris Cherry check out our youtube page; The Huddle with Mr. Aman Coonar: A surgeon's perspective on mental health

It is worth noting that this is a conversational piece and the opinions and views are of those in this discussion in its own context at that time. You Okay, Doc? is a charity supporting the mental health and wellbeing of doctors.  As a charity, we need your help to keep going and develop to support and raise awareness of mental health for Doctors.  Please check out our website https://youokaydoc.org.uk/ and our Instagram page to find out more and stay up to date with us.  If you would like, you can also text donate to support the You Okay, Doc? charity by texting.  To donate £3 text 'DOCTOR' to 70331,  or to donate £5 text 'DOCTOR' to 70970.  Thank you for listening and we look forward to creating more content.   See you on the next YOD pod!