Deep Breath In
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The tyranny of 10 minutes - with Alice Harper, Carol Sinnott and Jess Watson
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The BMJ's long running "10 minute consultation" series is being questioned - can you do everything we suggest in 10 minutes? Can GPs really do any mea...
Is cancer screening worth it? with Michael Bretthauer
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is cancer screening worth it, and how can GPs have that conversation? This episode of Deep Breath In explores the intricacies of assessing risks and b...
Greener GPs
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As news about the climate breakdown hits, it's hard not to feel the stirring of climate anxiety. One way to mitigate that is by taking action, but it'...
The known unknowns of menopause
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There have been so many conflicting views in the media lately on the management of menopause, and HRT has barely been out of the press at all in the l...
Saying no, with Rachel Morris
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There's never enough time in the day to be a GP, but it's still hard to say no to that one patient, or to a colleague who is asking for your help. In...
Prostate cancer screening with Andrew Vickers and Sam Merriel
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Common themes for discussion on this podcast include overdiagnosis, approaches to the testing, the ins and outs of explanations, as well as other issu...
Long covid update with Trish Greenhalgh and Harsha Master
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the pandemic has officially declared over, the ongoing effects of a covid-19 infection are still being felt in the community. In this Deep Breat...
Supporting the sexual wellbeing of older adults - with Sharon Hinchliff and Rebecca Mawson
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talking about sexual health may be common-place with younger patients, but the sexual wellbeing of older adults is often neglected in a consultation. ...
Antidepressant withdrawal with Tony Kendrick and Mark Horowitz
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The theory that depression is caused by serotonin deficiency has become embedded in our practice over the years, and can be a persuasive explanation o...
Time needed to treat, with Minna Johansson
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How long would it take GPs to enact all of the guideline recommendations that they might be expected too? Far more GP hours than exist in any healthca...
Reproductive coercion and narrative medicine with Annabel Sowemimo and John Launer
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reproductive coercion may feel like something that we don’t see very often in general practice, but a 2022 poll carried out for BBC Radio 4 of 1,060...
Coaching with Claire Kaye
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In general practice, it can often feel like a lot is changing beyond our grasp. On top of this, the pandemic has left many healthcare professionals se...
Patient access to notes with Charlotte Blease, Brian Macmillan and Gail Davidge
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The possibility that patients will suddenly have access to their notes has caused some anxiety for GPs in England. The department of health's plans to...
Surrogate endpoints with Huseyin Naci
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re joined by Huseyin Naci to discuss the recent press release from Eisai and Biogen announcing the Phase III trial results for lecanem...
GP Crisis with Rebecca Rosen
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The GP crisis with Rebecca Rosen This week, we discuss the ongoing GP crisis, an ever-topical subject, in light of recent UK governmental changes. I...
Physician experience, and gout with Katherine Hall and Alastair Dickson
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Deep Breath In, we'll be considering how a physicians personal experience of illness - either themselves, or as a parent or carer, ...
Musculoskeletal pain and osteoarthritis with Imran Sajid
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain and osteoarthritis are clinically common in general practice, but with the new draft NICE guideline on osteoarthritis (publ...
Retention with Pamela Curtis and GP trainees
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the Conservation party manifesto for the 2019 general election promising to deliver 6,000 additional full-time equivalent GPs, worryingly, the...
Continuity with Martin Marshall and Emma Gladwinfield
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, we share our experiences of attending the recent RCGP Annual Conference, and our thoughts on the topics that were covered in...
Adverse drug reactions with Anders Holt and Corine Ekhart
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As more and more pharmaceutical products come onto the market, there are so many potential drug interactions, and adverse reactions, to bear in mind d...
Violence against GPs with Adam Janjua, Marcela Schilderman, and Anita Bignell
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A recent investigation, by The BMJ, showed a worrying increase in incidence of violence, directed to wards GPs, and reported to the police. In this ep...
Milk allergies with Nicola Brathwaite
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Consultations about suspected cow’s milk protein allergies are quite common in primary care, but these allergies can be a challenge to diagnose, par...
Parosmia with Emily Woodroofe and Claire Hopkins
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Parosmia – a distorted sense of smell, and a delayed post-covid symptom – affects approximately 50% of people who experienced loss of smell during...
What’s in store for general practice in the UK
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the focus on covid, and the pressure on hospitals, it may be easy to overlook what’s happening in general practice in the UK - but changes are ...
Great Explanations
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We see patients all the time who ,more than any drug or cure, just want an explanation for their symptoms, to understand why they feel the way they do...
Diagnostic excellence with Hardeep Singh, Denise Connor, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Diagnosis is a complex categorisation task driven by mental models that reside in long term memory. Through education and experience, clinicians form...
Ramadan with Ammad Mahmood and Sahira Dar
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Ramadan draws near, clinicians may be approached by their Muslim patients to discuss managing their health conditions during the month of fasting. ...
Vaccine mandate’s unintended consequences
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There was a proposed vaccine mandate for NHS staff in the UK (now abandoned) but in other countries mandates continue, but are they without harm, and ...
How can a patient sue for their conception?
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A recent case against a GP in England has worried the profession - does the fact that a patient, born with a neural tube defect, successfully sued the...
Christmas 2021 with Inga Usher and Aswin Chari
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Christmas 2021 only just around the corner, we round off the year by chatting about our ‘Deep Breath In’ highlights, and by sharing some of t...
Green general practice with Richard Smith and Aarti Bansal
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following the recent COP26 Climate Change Summit, we discuss, in this week’s episode, the announcement that some 50 countries have committed to reac...
The GP crisis with Gareth Iacobucci and Lucy Martin
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Primary care in the UK is in crisis. General practice was already under huge strain, as a result of the pandemic, high levels of seasonal respiratory ...
Eating disorders with Simon Chapman, Zoe John and Victoria Adeniji
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 18 months, eating disorder specialists have seen a huge rise in the number of referrals, and experts have said that the pandemic has cre...
Obstructive sleep apnoea with Sophie West and Robert Koefman
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fatigue is one of the most common presenting symptoms GPs see in a consultation, and it feels like, during the pandemic, more of us than ever have bee...
Headaches and team debriefings with Heather Angus-Leppan and Michaela Kolbe
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A slightly different spread of this episode of Deep Breath In, Navjoyt Tom and Jenny are discussing two separate topics, headaches and team debriefing...
Fitting IUDs with Rebekah Fenton
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors are taught from medical school about the benefits of IUD, and are often advocates of them to patients. However, recent media attention on the...
Covid in children with Greg Zimet and Amanda Kvalsvig
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the scientific community in the UK still debates whether to vaccinate kids under 16, that leaves us as an outlier to the rest of the world where pa...
The complexity of primary care - with Rani Lill Anjum
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's a plan from the Royal College of General Practitioners, to stop the profession buckling under the huge pressure applied by the workforce crisi...
Prediabetes or a borderline HbA1c result - with Sam Finnikin and Seamus O’Mahony
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A borderline hba1c result will initiate a conversation with a patient - but how useful is that "prediabetes" check-in, and can GPs ever adequately des...
Lockdown dementia with Jason Karlawish and Jennifer Watt
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic had a high mortality toll in care homes, but measures to try and reduce that, through extreme social isolation, has had its own cost. So...
Medicalising the mind with Suzanne O’Sullivan
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our environment moulds our brains, and alters development, and so there are culture-bound ways that our bodies express distress. In this week’s ep...
Burnout with Rachel Morris, Cat Chatfield and Abi Rimmer
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout has become something of a buzzword recently, but has now been officially classified as a syndrome caused by the workplace. Over the course of ...
Health anxiety with Guy Edwards and Helen & Peter Tyrer
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In general practice, doctors commonly see patients who are experiencing varying degrees of health anxiety, which can be difficult to navigate. GPs oft...
Long Breath - Whitney Robinson on getting out the vaccines
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we're bringing you the full interview, a deep breath, with Whitney Robinson, a social epidemiologist and associate professor at UNC C...
GPs vs. surgeons with Clara Munro and Sarah Robinson
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a common perception of surgery that it’s an old boys’ club, and that anyone joining the profession is expected to match the archetypal pe...
Vaccines and headaches - with Heather Angus-Leppan and Whitney Robinson
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two topics currently being hotly discussed in the media and in clinical practice are headaches after the COVID vaccine, and the impact that structural...
Remote prescribing with Geva Greenfield and Benedict Hayhoe
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The past year has seen an increase in antibiotic prescriptions, especially for broad-spectrum antibiotics. This might be due to the rise in teleconsul...
Making the most of tele-dermatology with Lucy Thomas and Afzal Ansary
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The use of telemedicine is on the rise, and the pandemic has led to an increased demand for this service, due to the availability of face-to-face appo...
Suddenly shielding and vaccination variation, with Kevin Fenton and Kamlesh Khunti
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suddenly 1.7m extra people have been told to shield from coronavirus, thanks to the QCovid algorithm, and that's causing confusion - ethnicity is one ...
Mental health toll of lockdown with Daisy Fancourt and Farhana Mann
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the UK, we are currently in the midst of our third lockdown since the pandemic began, and there has been a huge surge in people experiencing mental...
Long covid with Melissa Heightman and Jenny Mollica
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It has been estimated that 10% of people who get covid-19 are still experiencing symptoms over 10 weeks later, and the common symptoms of long covid i...
Tips on rolling out the covid-19 vaccine with Mark Porter, Andrew Pollard and Julia Marcus
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to an incredible scientific effort, vaccines for COVID-19 have arrived in the UK and GPs, and other primary care health professionals, are now ...
The Deep Breath talking wellbeing evidence round-up of the year.
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this end-of-year podcast from Deep Breath In, we're bringing you a light hearted look back at 2020, and trying to remember some of the non-covid-19...
Changing behaviour with Cindy Gray and Shahroo Izadi
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Old habits die hard, and never does the saying seem more apt than at this time of the year, when many of us start thinking about our New Year’s reso...
Insomnia with Lauren Hale and Michael Kelleher
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
GP consultations with patients about sleep problems can go in several directions – could they be a symptom of depression? Financial worries? Sleep a...
Long breath - when someone has problem swallowing pills
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When someone, either an adult or child, has problem swallowing pills or capsules, there are some options open to help. In this podcast, a pharmacist a...
A lump in the throat with Nick Hamilton, Deonne Dersch-Mills and Bonnie Kaplan
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lump in the throat is a classic GP presentation, but one that often causes a lot of worry. Many people are struggling with high levels of anxiety an...
Deep Breath In - EUPD with Leisha Davies, Soumitra Burman-Roy and Marie Stella McClure
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Personality disorder is often referred to as the “Cinderella” diagnosis of mental health. Around 1 in 20 people is estimated to have a personality...
Coughing kids with Tim Spector and Edward Snelson
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Persistent coughing in children is always a challenge, both for parents trying to describe and measure the cough, and for doctors making a diagnosis. ...
’Flu vaccine season - with Nikki Turner and Jeff Kwong
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the annual flu season looming, GPs are anticipating a frenzy of vaccinations, perhaps more so than ever this year. As so many 'flu and respirato...
Take a deep breath with Stephanie DiGiorgio
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, in Deep Breath In, we only get a chance to include a brief bit of a much longer conversation with our guests. In these Deep Breaths, we're ...
Talking about obesity with Stephanie deGiorgio and Naveed Sattar
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fatphobia has been described as society’s last ‘ism’. Whilst our understanding of weight and health has changed over time, there is still a stig...
Time For A Pill Check With Anne McGregor And Tara Stein
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Contraceptive pill check-up appointments used to be simple and straightforward for GPs, and frequently felt like a welcome reprieve from more complex ...
Take a deep breath with Tom Chatfield
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, in Deep Breath In, we only get a chance to include a brief bit of a much longer conversation with our guests. In these Deep Breaths, we're ...
Thinking about vitamin D with Andrew Grey and Tom Chatfield
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interest in vitamin D, and it’s association with a range of health outcomes continues - at least if the regular flurry of papers on the subject that...
“Trust me, I’m a GP” with Karen Praeter and Rhea Boyd
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In light of the publication of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review (the Cumberlege report) in early July, which assessed the u...
Tackling racism with Annabel Sowemimo, Shani Scott and Joan Saddler OBE
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The signs and symptoms of racism have long permeated our society, and are embedded in our clinical practice and medical education. Recent events in th...
Lowering the shield with Julia Marcus and Carol Liddle
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown regulations is raising a lot of questions, both for doctors and for patients. This week, we discuss how the la...
Resetting General Practice with Martin Marshall, Jenny Doust and Toyin Ajayi
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, our focus is on what the post-COVID world of general practice might look like. The pandemic has exposed the inequalities in ...
Testing times with James McCormack and Jess Watson
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For GPs, testing patients is their “bread and butter”. This week, we discuss the “better safe than sorry” attitude towards testing, which is s...
Talking about dying from covid with Scott Murray and Katherine Shear
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With COVID-19 still ongoing, and at the forefront of the minds of doctors, patients and members of the public alike, difficult conversations are takin...
Coping with Covid with Monica Schoch-Spana and Jud Brewer
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, we discuss bystander guilt, convergence, brain hacks and “how you can sneeze on someone’s brain from anywhere in the wor...
Teleconsulting with Trish Greenhalgh and Fiona Stevenson
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new podcast from The BMJ, to help GP's feel more connected, heard, and supported. Subscribe on; Apple podcasts - https://bit.ly/applepodsDBI Spotif...
Feeling the fear with Iona Heath and Danielle Ofri
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new podcast from The BMJ, to help GP's feel more connected, heard, and supported. Subscribe on; Apple podcasts - https://bit.ly/applepodsDBI Spotif...
Deep Breath In - breathe more easily with The BMJ
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Deep breath in…and out. Again, deep breath in…and out.” We tune in to patients’ breath sounds, seeking confirmation of a diagnosis - one ...