Dr Michael Blackmore

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322 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Talking General Practice · Pursuing a GP career after recovering from addiction · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

None of us are.

But I'm trying to do the best I can with this busy, mad head that I've been given.

They realise that I'm not going to stigmatise them.

yeah well maybe understand i'll maybe empathize often they don't want to take on the suggestions i give them and it's like okay fair enough i can show you the door the door that i walked through the door that most people seem to walk through to get better but if you don't want to do that way then you know sort of we'll do it another way they will find compromises i just try not to give them the tools to kill themselves so i won't prescribe excessive amounts of opiates i won't prescribe diazepam i will

Do my damnedest to keep away from the gabapentinoids if they've got an issue.

Oh, try and give them what they need, not what they want.

I've got a spiel that I've come out with.

It's kind of a Barnum statement.

I say to the patient, you've probably got low self-esteem.

You've probably got low self-confidence.

You probably feel judged and criticised by other people, but you're your biggest judge and critic.

You probably do other people's thinking for them.

I bet they think this about me.

How dare they?

You probably overthink things, overanalyse and catastrophise.

You've got a really, really busy head and using something, alcohol, drugs, calms it down for a little bit, but then it comes back with a vengeance.

And I'm just trying to sort of ID with them.

And some people are like, yes.

I had one guy who was like, oh, my God, can you see inside my head?

And some people are like, yeah, some of that, but not all of it.

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