Medicine and Science from The BMJ
Episodes
Talk Evidence - cloning, reporting, and disseminating
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco, and Joe Ross are back with our monthly update on the world of evidence based medicine. This episode delves into new met...
Addiction in doctors
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has coping mechanisms, but sometimes those ways of coping become problem behaviours - addictions. In this episode of Doctor Informed, we're ...
Talk Evidence - automatic approval, evidence apps, and pay for performance data
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this month’s Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco and Joseph Ross are back to talk us through some of the latest research, They’ll tal...
Nappuccinos and circadian rhythms
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fatigue can have as much of an affect in your ability to function as alcohol, and yet while you would be chastised for drinking before appearing on th...
Why guideline authors need to pay attention to doctor’s time
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're bringing you an episode of the BMJ's podcast for primary care, Deep Breath In, which we think you'll enjoy. How long would it take GPs to enact...
Nuffield Summit 2023 - healthcare needs flexible working
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As workforce gaps in the NHS, and other healthcare systems around the world widen, the need to improve staff retention has become an ever more pressin...
Talk Evidence - masks, chronic pain, and baby milk formulae claims
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald is joined by Juan Franco and Joe Ross, to bring you the newest evidence in The BMJ. First, chronic ...
Got grit?
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Grit is one of those concepts (like the dreaded resilience) that has a specific meaning, but has become a buzzword in healthcare. It’s the ability t...
Is it time for the Beano to drop the junk food brands?
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Mulrenan, specialist registrar in public health, and Mark Petticrew, professor of public health evaluation, both working at the London School o...
Talk Evidence - excess deaths, the ONS, and the healthcare crisis
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we're focusing on covid and the ongoing crisis in the NHS. Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco and Joseph Ross cast their evidence s...
Formal Training Pathways, are they really all that?
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One size doesn’t fit all - so what are the alternative career paths of doctors in the NHS? The treadmill of medical school, to foundation training, ...
Conflict and food global food insecurity
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we gear up for the winter in the northern hemisphere, the need to stay warm and eat well is pressing - but in 2022, there are global pressures work...
Talking evidence at Christmas
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's almost time for the Christmas edition of the BMJ to hit your doormats, and in this festive edition of Talk Evidence we're going to be talking Chr...
DNACPR
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Dr. Informed podcast, the topic of discussion is death and dying, and how to involve patients in DNACPR decisions. The panel d...
Talk Evidence - endometriosis, falling, and better EBM
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's episode, Helen Juan and Joe delve into the clinical - with a new review of endometriosis, and why the difficulty in diagnosis has lead...
#MedTwitter - a force for good or evil?
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#MedTwitter consists of an online community of researchers, health practitioners and students who have created an open source decentralised forum for ...
WISH 2022 - Antimicrobial resistance, and workforce wellbeing
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, saw the WISH 2022 - the World Innovation Summit for Health, where experts from around the world came and presented their ideas. In this p...
Talk Evidence - Diabetes data, colonoscopies, and researchers behaving badly
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, is joined again by Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and J...
Doctor informed - sustainability isn’t just waste management
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Doctor Informed, we're talking sustainability. The BMJ has a special edition on the climate crisis, and finding hope amid dispair -...
Talk Evidence - Inquiring about covid, burnout, and marginal data
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's October's Talk Evidence, and that means the autumn is upon us including those autumnal viruses. Here in the UK covid is on the rise, and Joe Ros...
Doctor Informed - the generational divide
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's zoomers vs boomers on this week's Doctor Informed, as we assemble a multigenerational team to talk about the "good old days" and if the youth of ...
Doctor Informed - what to expect from an inquest
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our new season of Doctor Important, we'll be discussing topics that are not always talked about, and today, by popular request of our listners, we'...
Series 1 wrap up
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is our last episode of series 1 of Doctor Informed, and with it we're coming full circle. Clara will be talking to our first two guests, Mary Dix...
Talk Evidence - a new way of understanding antidepressant effectiveness
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Joe Ross, professor of medicine at Yale, and The BMJ's US research editor, and Juan Franco, researcher at Heinrich-Heine-Unive...
Reflecting on a crisis
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Previous Doctor Informed episodes have discussed how to prevent patient safety issues from occurring, but sometimes situations are beyond anyone's con...
Talk Evidence - shoulders, knees, and woes
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Juan Franco, editor in chief of BMJ EBM, and Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor, sit down to discuss what's new in ...
Diabetes in Ukraine - supporting NCDs in a conflict zone
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, living under the uncertainty has become the new normal for thousands of patients with diabetes who are d...
Talk Evidence - political persuasion and mortality, too much medicine
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Helen Macdonald is joined by Joseph Ross, US research editor for The BMJ, and Juan Franco, editor of BMJ EBM. They begin by 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...
”But it’s always been done that way”
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Doctor Informed, we've been hearing a lot about the problems of healthcare, but we also want to talk about solutions. Whatever we're going to do to...
Talk Evidence - evidence in Roe vs Wade, MI treatment variation, and tribal methodologies
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Macdonald, The BMJ's research integrity editor is back with another episode, and this week is joined by Joe Ross, professor of medicine and publ...
Get political, for health’s sake
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The influence of public health on politics, at least at the beginning of the pandemic, had never been stronger - but now it seems as hard to persuade ...
Deep Breath In - what’s in store for general practice in the UK
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of our podcast for GP's, Deep Breath In, where we tackle the everyday challenges of being a GP. With the focus on covid, an...
Creativity and wellbeing
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Redmond, clinical psychologist who supports healthcare workers experiencing burnout and other difficulties related to their job. Before this, sh...
Quality improvement and wellbeing are inextricably linked
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of the last few years, the BMJ has published a series of articles in our Quality Improvement series - aiming to give those new to impr...
Doctor Informed - Medicine’s me too moments
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we’re going to be talking about misogyny in surgery, recent revelations about sexual harassment in the theatre have emerged - but th...
Covid vaccine safety, Methenamine hippurate, and intersectionality
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, the BMJ’s research integrity editor is joined by Joe Ross, US research editor, and Juan Franco, e...
Wellbeing - hot food on a night shift
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The issue of food on nightshifts is a perennial grumble in the NHS, and though it might seem trivial, what does it say of an organisation if they dema...
Everyone’s going to make a mistake
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Medicine is complex, and as a doctor you won't always do the right thing - but you can prepare yourself for when mistakes happen, both emotionally and...
Solving retention to support workforce recovery
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The covid-19 pandemic has stretched healthcare staff like never before. As part of the 2022 Nuffield Trust summit, The BMJ hosted a roundtable discuss...
Rural healthcare in a pandemic
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast we’re going to be talking about rural healthcare - and specifically the difficulties that distance, demographics, and...
The blame game
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In previous episodes of Doctor Informed, we've talked about the importance of speaking out, but the culture in your organisation might not always make...
Learning to listen
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In previous episodes of Doctor Informed, we've talked about the importance of speaking out, and how to do that better, but as you progress through you...
Talk Evidence - isolation periods, openness, and environmental impacts
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first Talk Evidence of 2022, we'll be asking about the evidence for isolation - now that isolation periods are being reduced, or even stopped i...
Why is it so hard to speak out about patient safety?
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the previous episodes of Doctor Informed, we've heard why it's so important to talk about patient safety concerns, and some of the mechanisms that ...
US Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Levine Trained as a paediatrician, before becoming firstly the state of Pennsylvania's Physician General, then its Health Secretary. During pr...
Talking Christmas Evidence 2021
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The BMJ has special criteria for considering Christmas research: first it should make you laugh, and then it should make you think. In this festive ...
Who is responsible for patient safety?
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As clinicians, we're all taught that patient safety is everyone's responsibility - but on the ground it can be hard to know how to most effectively re...
Exit interview with Fiona Godlee
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Godlee is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of The BMJ after 16 years in the position. She was the first female editor of the journal, and over ...
Covid and conflict In South Asia
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this second podcast focussing on the covid response in South Asia, we’re focussing on the intersection of conflict and covid in the region. The p...
Life Support - Being a compassionate colleague
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Ayisha Ashmore - and they're getting to grips with being a compassionate colleague. Whil...
Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone?
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. B...
Doctor Informed - The patterns which emerge
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Talk Evidence - Bones, nutrition, pain relief, and overdiagnosis.
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Introducing Doctor Informed
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doctor Informed is a new podcast for hospital doctors, from The BMJ - created in collaboration with THIS Institute, and sponsored by Medical Protectio...
Wellbeing - QI approach to improving your wellbeing
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Covid in south Asia - India and Nepal
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
Talk Evidence - testing for respiratory tract infections, cannabis for pain, & covid outcomes
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
Wellbeing - tired or fatigued, and why the difference might matter
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ex...
The future of Afghan healthcare
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The infrastructure of Afghanistan healthcare is under threat, as international agencies who run clinics withdraw from the country. At the same time, s...
Healthcare In Afghanistan Now
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The final evacuation planes have left Kabul airport, and Afghanistan’s government have ceded power to the Taliban. Amongst the international commu...
Talk Evidence - real world vaccine data, GP records and CVD
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Junior doctors improving hospital wellbeing
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Wellbeing - scheduling and burnout
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
Women’s health and gender inequalities - Legislating for change
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 cha...
Wellbeing - surveying the mental health of NHS staff
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Talk Evidence - Freedom Day
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 we...
Women’s health and gender inequalities - The science of women’s health
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 cha...
Wellbeing - the need for culturally aware support
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We know the pandemic has disproportionately affected the NHS workers who come from a ethnic minorities, we also know that doctors from an ethnic minor...
Women’s health and gender inequalities - Campaigning for change
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 cha...
Talk Evidence - GP data, excess mortality and FDA approval
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Wellbeing - are men worse at sounding the alarm about their mental health?
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ow...
Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK’s response
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Finally it seems that life might return to normal in the UK, as the vaccination efforts continue apace, and despite concern about increasingly spreadi...
Wellbeing - Questions to ask yourself, if you think medicine may no longer be for you
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has wrought a lot of change, not least to doctors relationship to their careers. While still loving the patient interaction, we're increa...
Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. The...
Roopa Dhatt - Getting woman into leadership positions in healthcare
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 dom...
Wellbeing - Humanising medicine
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Wellbeing - After shielding
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Coronavirus second wave - headaches abound
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Measure the broader impacts of healthcare
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The synergistic linking of increasing health and wealth is broadly accepted - it's an integral part of the thinking between the Sustainable Developmen...
Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 profe...
Coronavirus second wave - vaccination roll out changes, uncertainty about long covid
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Wellbeing - Put yourself first
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Wellbeing podcast, sponsored by medical protection, Abi Rimmer and Cat Chatfield talk to Susanna Petche and Reina Popat, GPs and members of Fi...
What should ”following the science” mean for government policy?
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This round table, recorded at the nuffield summit 2021, asks what does following the science actually mean - do ministers understand the nuance of the...
Talk Evidence - Inside the JCVI, and the key to grading evidence
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a slightly different talk evidence, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are bringing you a couple, of in depth interviews, Firstly, Anthony Harnden...
Stephen Thomas - Behind the scenes in the Pfizer vaccine trial
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 intervie...
Coronavirus second wave - cancelled surgery, increasing waiting lists
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many surgeries have been cancelled during the pandemic, with good reason, as early data showed the increase in mortality associated with a coronavirus...
Wellbeing - speaking out about mental health in the NHS
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The BMJ Interview - Jeremy Farrar; sharing the vaccine is enlightened self interest
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Corona virus second wave - Palliative care, and online abuse
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ, talks to; Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, Helen Salisbu...
Wellbeing special - A post vaccination mindfullness moment
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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'r...
Talk Evidence - re-hospitalistion for covid-19, remote hypertension intervention
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Neil Greenberg on tackling PTSD in the NHS
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
The BMJ interview - Jeremy Hunt MP
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Hunt probably needs no introduction to our audience - the UK's longest serving health minister, he now chairs Westminster's Health and Social C...
Coronavirus second wave - The NHS one year on
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Afric...
The BMJ interview - Tom Frieden, former CDC director on why we thought we were prepared
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Coronavirus second wave - 100,000 deaths
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 - a...
Coronavirus second wave - The view from the front line
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 re...
The BMJ interview: Fixing America’s covid response in the Biden era
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Talk Evidence - Lateral flow tests update, not the best public health approach
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...