In The Finding Sessions podcast I take you along with me on my self-discovery journey as a 50 something female, after leaving a busy professional career. I share my stories, thoughts and reflections on a range of issues, as I continue to practice becoming more present and reaching higher levels of consciousness. My desire is to put positive, healing energy into the world. I share my thoughts on topics that are important to me, and some of which I believe are important to improving our emotio ...
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Welcome to the UCL Medical Women Talking podcast series, hosted by physician and medical scholar, Professor Dame Jane Dacre. In this inspirational collection of informal interviews, Jane talks with a range of women doctors hailing from various specialties and backgrounds, each with a remarkable career in medicine. Join Jane and her guests as they explore the challenges and rewards of a medical career and consider how it's possible to strike a balance between professional aspirations and pers ...
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Welcome to The Ecommerce Insights Show, brought to you by The Good! This weekly podcast gives ecommerce leaders specific, actionable advice for accelerating the growth of their business without pulling their hair out or making sacrifices in other areas. Our team of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) consultants has been helping global brands like Adobe, Xerox, and The Economist accelerate their growth for more than a decade – and now we’re leveraging all of those relationships and experience ...
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Season 4 Episode 9: Dr Natalie Jane Macdonald
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In this episode, Jane chats with Dr Natalie Jane Macdonald. Natalie-Jane is a graduate of Glasgow University with over 30 years of experience healthcare in a variety of roles. Jane and Natalie discuss their experiences in navigating career paths in medicine, including sideways steps and unconventional paths. They emphasise the importance of effecti…
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Season 4 Episode 10: Professor Wendy Burn
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In this episode, Jane chats with Professor Wendy Burn CBE FRCPsych, a Consultant in psychiatry and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2017 to 2020. Wendy shares her personal journey in psychiatry, highlighting the challenges she faced, including stigma and difficulties in medical school. Jane and Wendy discuss their experiences in…
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In this episode, Jane talks with Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive of Health Education England since October 2020. She was previously Chief Executive of East London NHS Foundation Trust. Navina also held a number of positions across the Trust including Director of Operations & Deputy CEO, Director for Mental Health, Lead Clinician Newham CAMHS and C…
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In this episode, Jane chats to Dr Kate Stannard. Kate graduated from Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals in 1995, her anaesthetic training was based in London with an 18 month period as clinical lecturer at Royal Perth Hospital & the University of Western Australia. She started her consultant career in 2005 at MTW NHS Trust and has developed an interest in…
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Season 4 Episode 6: Professor Jenny Higham
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In this episode, Jane talks with Professor Jenny Higham, the first female Chair of the Medical Schools Council. Alongside her role as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Higham continues clinical practice as a consultant gynaecologist which influenced her research interests in reproductive medicine and medical education innovation. Jane and Jenny discuss th…
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Season 4 Episode 5: Baroness Ilora Finlay
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In this episode, Jane talks with Baroness Ilora Finlay, a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Velindre Cancer Centre and Honorary Professor of Palliative Medicine, Cardiff University. Ilora established the Marie Curie Hospice in 1987 and the Diploma/MSc in Palliative Medicine in 1989 and was lead for Palliative Care in Wales 2008-2017. In 2010 she…
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Season 4 Episode 4: Professor Farah Bhatti
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In this episode, Jane chats with Professor Farah Bhatti OBE FRCS FLSW. Farah is a British cardiac surgeon who is an honorary professor at the Swansea University Medical School. She serves as Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Women in Surgery Forum. Jane and Farah share their experiences as women in a male-dominated field, highlighti…
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In this episode, Jane talks with Dr Ananta Dave, Chief Medical Officer of the Black Country Integrated Care Board. Ananta is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist by background and closely involved in undergraduate and post graduate medical education. Ananta was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) in J…
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Season 4 Episode 2: Professor Carrie Newlands
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Jane chats with Professor Carrie Newlands, a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon whose primary focus is to work with her patients, finding out what is important to them. Jane and Carrie discuss their experiences as women in surgery, highlighting the challenges they faced and the importance of resilience and determination. They also discuss ba…
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Season 4 Episode 1: Dr Henrietta Hughes
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In this episode, Jane talks with Dr Henrietta Hughes. Previously the NHS National Guardian, Henrietta provided leadership and support to Freedom to Speak Up Guardians across England in the NHS, Independent sector organisations, and other parts of the healthcare sector. Henrietta continues her clinical role one day a week as a GP in central London. …
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#18 Getting to know YOU: The important practice of giving yourself space for finding and living your truth
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode I share my thoughts on why it is important to take time to get to know YOU - the real you. We are often so caught up in the busy-ness of our lives, that we don't take time to even think about how we FEEL about our lives, how we feel about the activities we spend much of our time doing, or the relationships th…
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#17: On Laughter & Hugs (and their impact on our well-being)
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, through a couple of personal stories and observations, I share my views about how hugs and laughter can make our lives, and our relationships, more meaningful. I also talk about the health benefits of laughter, and the value in taking some time to pay attention when we give or receive a warm embrace with som…
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A Meditation for Those Experiencing Pain (fr Ep #16)
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Send us a Text Message. This meditation is to help those who may be experiencing significant pain, where there is a feeling that you cannot overcome it. If you tuned into Episode 16, released with this meditation ("On the Loneliness of Pain"), I explain how we can feel alone in our pain, and also how our thoughts can consume us in times of pain. At…
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#16: The Loneliness of Pain and Navigating Through It
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share my thoughts and reflections on the experience of pain, and how isolating it can be for those who experience it on a constant basis. Sometimes our thoughts can take us to a place where we feel unlike everyone around us, who seem to be carefree and full of energy. And we can feel as if we must hold our…
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#15- From Sadness to Gratitude - A message from my younger self
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share something I recently came across that I had written about 25 years ago, during a time in my life when I felt very alone - a time of sadness, when I frequently carried feelings of grief, loss, along with a little uncertainty about my life. The poem came from a place where I took the time to reflect on…
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A Meditation to Stop Worrying, to Find Your Peace, and The Freedom to Be You.
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Send us a Text Message. This Meditation is released along with Episode 14, "Stop Worrying About What Other People Think, and About Everything Else! My Thoughts on How LIfe Is Like a Dream". Feel free to check out that episode, where I share thoughts and tools on how meaningless our worries, are and how to stop that cycle! THIS MEDITATION: This medi…
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#14- Stop Worrying About What Other People Think, and About Everything Else! My thoughts on how Life is Like a Dream
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share my thoughts on how to break free from the cycle of those needless worries that are often filling your mind, by learning the power of conscious or mindful living. I share thoughts on how most of our worries are about what other people will think about us, fear of judgement by others. I explore the sen…
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Meditation to Ease You Back to Sleep (from Ep #13)
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Send us a Text Message. This Meditation is being released with Episode 13 (The 3AM Club: Finding Calm and Getting Back to Sleep). In Episode 13, I share personal stories about my sleepless nights, and how I found ways to calm my mind, and accept the wakeful moments, which has helped me to drift back to sleep. I explain in that episode why I created…
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#13: The 3AM Club: Finding Calm and Getting Back to Sleep
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share my sleep(less) stories, from the perspective of a 50 something female, who has learned all too well what 3 AM looks like, while all the world seems to be asleep. Having tried everything, I recently found a couple of ways to ease myself back into sleep, which I share here. I also share my experience w…
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A Meditation: On Listening to Your Heart (from Episode #12)
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Send us a Text Message. Often our decisions are made by listening to our thinking minds, which comes from past programming that can often be misinformed. In Episode 12, I share my thoughts on why we may want to rethink those "should do" messages coming from our thoughts, and instead start to become aware of how our heart feels. We can trust in our …
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#12 - On Rethinking what you "should" do; and listening to your heart (with Meditation)
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I talk about how telling ourselves that we should do something, usually means we are resisting it. If you really want to do something, you don't usually need to convince yourself that 'you should'. When we are resisting something, it may be a sign that we are doing something in opposition to our heart. I sha…
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Meditation: Embracing your emotions, healing and trusting your inner wisdom (Ep #11)
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Send us a Text Message. This Meditation follows my talk in Episode 11, where I share my thoughts on how we should pay attention to our emotions and reactions (whether edginess, frustration etc.) as they are here to tell us something about ourselves that we may be neglecting, or not facing. Embracing them can be a path to healing. Our inner wisdom i…
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#11- Embracing your emotions - a path to healing (& Meditation)
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share thoughts on how we sometimes experience those not so welcome reactions or emotions (moments of impatience, frustration, edginess) and we dismiss them as feelings that just happen once in awhile, when we are too busy, too tired, or caused by something that happened or something that someone else said …
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Abi Patel. Abi is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. She graduated from University of Cambridge in 2004 and completed higher surgical training in the West Midlands, UK. Abi is a NIHR CRN Research Scholar and believes in patient centred research. S…
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In this epsisode, Jane Dacre chats with Dr Parveen Jayia. Dr Jayia has held a number of medical leadership roles both within NHS, where she practised as a surgeon, and within the pharmaceutical industry. Currently working in oncology, Parveen is keen to embrace new ways to optimise healthcare and determined that working in partnerships is the way f…
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Coffee Talk: reflections on how coffee filters through life's moments (and how it appeared in my own)
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Send us a Text Message. This episode was the product of waking up one sunny morning, listening to the coffee pot brewing, while I sat in front of an open patio door of my home, basking in the sunshine and listening to the birds. I began reflecting on the pleasure that sometimes comes from the regular sounds or tastes we experience so often during o…
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A Meditation - On Appreciating Your Unique Life (Fr. Ep #9 - The Patchwork Quilt of Life)
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Send us a Text Message. This is the "meditative message" included at the end of Episode #9, for those of you who like to access the short meditations without having to forward through the episode. This meditation allows you to take a few short minutes to relax, breathe a little, and to reflect on the beauty that is your unique life, even with all t…
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The Patchwork Quilt of Life: thoughts on how each of our lives are uniquely beautiful, even with all the messy parts
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share my thoughts on how I found comfort one day in thinking that life is like a patchwork quilt - sometimes created out of love, and perhaps sometimes pain, there are some parts where the stitches are perfect, and others where it is messy, and loose, and not so pretty. The patchwork quilt (and life) is be…
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Meditative Message (from Episode 8-"Taking Off Your Shoes")- thoughts on how to practice becoming more aware in the present moment
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Send us a Text Message. This is the meditative message that followed by personal story in Episode 8, which I am providing here for anyone who wants to listen to this separately (without having to fast forward through my entire talk in Episode 8). This is not a meditation, per se, but a "meditative message", which I hope allows you to relax, find a …
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Reflections on "Taking Off Your Shoes" - how the simple act of taking off my shoes one day helped me find my way to the present moment; experiences through a child's eyes; vacations; practicing awareness ...
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share a story of how one summer day my decision to "take off my shoes" became one of my most memorable days, how other experiences that followed helped me to reflect on just how much repetition in our lives and our thoughts distract us from experiencing the beautiful moments in life, and some thoughts on h…
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Season 3 Episode 9: International Women's Day Special - Dame Lesley Regan
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In this International Women's Day special, Jane Dacre chats with Dame Lesley Regan, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College's St Mary's Hospital Campus, and Honorary Consultant in Gynaecology at the Imperial College NHS Trust. Lesley combines her clinical and research work on recurrent miscarriage and uterine fibroids with a pas…
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Short breathing meditation to calm the overthinking mind (from Episode 7)
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Send us a Text Message. This is the short meditation that includes breath work and mantra to help calm the overthinking mind. Although brief, it may allow you take a few minutes from your day to begin to learn the practice of box breathing. As you practice, you may decide to try other forms of breath work and even select your own preferred words fo…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Rosia Shah. Rosia is a Locum consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Medical Lead for VCTC, a UK-based clinical trial site that specialises in running patient centric clinical trials. Rosia reflects on her journey from a deprived background to medical school and the challenges she faced as a women of colour…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Rahel Odonde. Rahel is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. Her special interests include the safe practice of abortion care, sexual and global health. Rahel is the first Equality, Diversity and Inclusion council officer for the Medical Women’s Federation, and as a member of the executive committee …
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks to Dr Katherine Ordidge. Kate is a Consultant Radiologist at Barts Health NHS Trust, London and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She graduated from University College London (UCL) Medical School in 2007, with an intercalated BSc in Medical Physics and Bioengineering. Kate an…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre chats to Dr Jess Morgan. Jess is a clinical fellow at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, leading a national project to improve the wellbeing and working lives of paediatricians. She spent 11 years as an NHS doctor, specialising in paediatrics and undertaking research in neonatology. Burnout and mental ill…
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Season 3 Episode 4: Dr Patrice Baptiste
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Patrice Baptiste. Patrice is a double award-winning portfolio GP, medical educator, entrepreneur, writer, author, visionary and champion for diversity within the medical profession. Dr. Baptiste holds various roles alongside her main role as a GP. She is focused on supporting others with their career develo…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Chelcie Jewitt. Chelcie is an Emergency Medicine trainee, interested in health inequalities, particularly those faced by women. Throughout her training she has been a victim of, and witness to, multiple incidences of sexism and misogyny. This prompted her to found the Sexism in Medicine project, which has l…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Becky Cox. Becky is a GP specialist working in gynaecology and an academic GP with an interest in violence against women. She is the founder of Surviving in Scrubs. As a survivor of domestic abuse as well as sexual harassment and assault at work Becky advocates and campaigns to end the culture of misogyny i…
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In this episode, Jane Dacre talks with Dr Ruth Law, a consultant physician in integrated geriatric medicine and general internal medicine at Whittington Health NHS Trust in London where she is clinical lead. Ruth's work in integrated care resulted in her being awarded the British Geriatrics Society Rising Star Award for quality in 2018. Ruth talks …
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On transitioning from a busy career to retirement, self-doubt, stopping the overthinking mind, and reflections on healing and finding balance
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share my personal experience (so far) about transitioning to retirement, managing some health issues, and my discovery that my overthinking mind was in more control than I realized. I had no idea that my plans to spend my newfound time with relaxation, creativity and healing were being impaired by my think…
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Send us a Text Message. This is a short meditation to begin your day on a positive note. It includes a little breath work, and a bit of positive affirmation. We can all benefit from a little self-love, reflection and compassion for ourselves. I would love if you took the time to try it out. Thanks for Listening! I appreciate you taking the time to …
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On the Value of Listening in an increasingly distracted world - A Reflection on Meaningful Connections
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share my thoughts about how many of us have lost the art of listening, our distractions are consuming us, and we are not likely even aware of it. With our attentions directed at a screen most of the time, I reflect on how this is impacting our connectivity with others, and ultimately how it impacts our rel…
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A Meditation on Self-Love and Inner Wisdom (from Episode 4)
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Send us a Text Message. This is a meditation I created for Episode 4 - The Key Components for a Healthy Life. It encompasses many aspects of well-being and it can apply to us any day we need a little self-love or to remind ourselves that we have the inner wisdom to make the right choices for ourselves. I hope you enjoy it as well. If you like the m…
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Key Components for a Healthy Life - A Focus for 2024
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I share my thoughts on the 10 key elements for a healthy life, and a few personal stories. I believe these are perspectives that even health advocates of opposing views may agree upon. It's perhaps a starting point for some people, and a bit of a reminder for others. Following my talk is "My Message to You",…
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In this episode, Jane chats with Faye Gishen, UCL's Medical School Director and Professor of Medical Education and Palliative Medicine. Faye reflects on her career journey in medicine, shares some of the highs and lows of her experiences and discusses her thoughts on having a fulfilling career and family life. For more information and to access the…
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The host becomes the interviewee in this special episode of Medical Women Talking! Dr Suzy Lishman chats to Professor Dame Jane Dacre about her life and career. Jane Dacre is a rheumatologist, medical educator, past president of the Royal College of Physicians and now multitalented multitasker with a wide range of roles and specialist interests. Fo…
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Ins this episode, Jane talks to Dr Jeanette Dickson, Chair of Council of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Jeanette is also a practicing consultant clinical oncologist at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Hertfordshire focusing primarily on thoracic malignancies and providing radiotherapy for patients with haematological conditions. For more i…
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Season 2: Professor Dame Averil Mansfield
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In this episode, Jane talks to Professor Dame Averil Bradley. Averil was a consultant surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, from 1982 to 2002, and in 1993 she became the first British woman to be appointed a Professor of Surgery. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/medical-women-t…
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In this episode, Jane chats with Professor Scarlett McNally. Scarlett is a consultant and orthopaedic surgeon and has been for over 22 years. In December 2018, Scarlett was diagnosed with Myeloma and Cardiac amyloidosis. At the time both were considered incurable, but she had amazing treatment, including a stem cell transplant in 2020. Scarlett is …
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