Episode 24: Dr David Hindmarsh - Military Vaccination Programmes, Habits By Design, Elephant Bicycles And Generally Being Politically Uncorrect

Episode 25: Dr Murray Ellender - Asynchrony (The New Normal), Mentoring Medical Entrepreneurship and How To (Almost Single-handedly) Disrupt (Positively Speaking) 70years Of Doctor vs Patient In The National Health Service....For The Better?

Dr Murray Ellender is a General Practitioner in South London, co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of  eConsult Health. Murray qualified from King’s College London Medical School back in 1999 and trained in Emergency Medicine before starting a career in General Practice. He joined the progressive team at the Hurley Clinic in 2006 and led on urgent care for the group for a number of years. He now practices part time across the Hurley Group, in both general practice and urgent care settings. Nowadays, he spends most of his week running eConsult Health Limited - a health tech company which spun out of the Hurley. The focus of eConsult is to bring NHS care into the digital age, offering patients the ability to consult with their own NHS GP online and be triaged digitally in Urgent & Emergency Care settings. Murray and I met many years ago whilst navigating our way through the Maidstone Vocational Training Scheme in the mid- 2000s, which seems a very very long time indeed....

Episode 24: Dr David Hindmarsh - Military Vaccination Programmes, Habits By Design, Elephant Bicycles And Generally Being Politically Uncorrect

For further information on the episode, please visit allaboutdoctorsradio.com [http://allaboutdoctorsradio.com] Dr Dave Hindmarsh is a GP in the North East England and Army Veteran. After having 11 years of service, he realised that he needed to change his life to be less career focused and to ensure that work-life balance is addressed. This was bought into no small part by the untimely death of his new born son, James. This made him turn to literature to try and help on this journey, The Chimp Paradox and Atomic habits really helping to focus his efforts. He is now balancing his own portfolio career, being a new partner in Eaglescliffe Medical Practice, Hull-York Medical School and teaching locally. The YouTube channel, GP Templates, is his own passion project that was born out of trying to create a second income. It has started to focus on some really key points from his life with the aim that they can help others in similar predicaments. This is a new step in Dave’s career as he tries to pull all that he has been through to bring meaning to what he has been through and to carefully share with patients and help them on their own individual journey. If you wish to contact Dave, then feel free to drop a line to: gptemplates@gmail.com He can also be found on Twitter (@GP_Templates) https://twitter.com/GP_Templates Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1939735739516109 YouTube: GP Templates - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC10JRUBDHZDKHuQ3U4mHO8g Other links that may be useful from the Podcast…. Elephant bike: https://www.cycleofgood.com/elephant-bike/ Books: Atomic Habits. James Clear (YouTube review - The Chimp Paradox. Prof Steve Peters Badge design: I did this through MBC Badges (https://www.badges.org.uk/) Charities: Sick Childrens Trust: https://www.sickchildrenstrust.org/ When a child suddenly becomes ill, there’s no time to plan. We're here to give families one less thing to worry about by giving them a place to stay, free of charge just minutes from their child’s bedside. The Warrior Programme: https://www.warriorprogramme.org.uk/ This is a charity that helps service personnel, veterans and families of with a way to emotionally control enables individuals to manage their emotions and to develop the resilience, focus and motivation to succeed in today’s world. The programme has been developed over the last ten years to meet the demands and challenges experienced by past and present members of the armed forces and their families.

Episode 23: Mr Hagen Jahnich - Exclusive Pink Socks, The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, How Military Life Complements Good Orthopaedic Surgery

Hagen Jahnich is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in upper limb at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. A former officer in the East German Army, Hagen recounts the emotions surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as performing his physical training with tank chains whilst preparing himself for international competition as an open water rower. Since then he has competed on national and international levels and won multiple national titles and remains the last ever East German National Champion in the lightweight double sculls and he has won the British National Championships, also having won six World Masters Regattas.

Episode 22: Hand-Picked Highlights of Season Two

This episode concludes Season Two of All About Doctors Radio; it has signified a real insight into the lives and times of some really fantastic colleagues out there. By just having the opportunity to get under the skin of these amazing professionals, I really get to understand what makes them tick, and the factors and elements that make them who there are. I am rapidly learning that the most effective of us have multiple layers to us, and it's not all about work, but the ability to reach down into our toolkit and pick out a tool just for the right occasion. On the episode the young and insightful Dr Albert Koomson talks about how sport has been important to him in sailing his ship through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Pauline Morris, founder of Doctors Caring For Doctors talks about dealing with our wayward perceptions of apparent 'failure' as well as accepting others into our lives. Dr Neil Potter, Kent Local Medical Committee representative talks about his hopes for the future of the NHS. Founder of medic wellbeing organisation Medizom, Ross McKean, gives thoughts as to how being allowed to care for patients personally in his early years gave him important skills now as a GP, as well as the possible dangers of social media. Dr Richard Laurent, recently retired GP and great friend, discusses the sinister translocation of acute into chronic stress un the life of a GP. Finally, Dr David Unwin, the British GP who has helped pioneer reversal of type 2 diabetes with low carbohydrate eating, talks about his thoughts on retirement, and the biggest u turn in medical history at 55 years old! We conclude the episode with some stirring and sobering contemplations from David regarding not only a world he knew with out diabetes and obesity, but also an important message for our profession and colleagues out there. I hope you enjoy this carousel of soundbites from these wonderful individuals, and creates a nice springboard and platform for Season Three.

Episode 20: Dr Albert Koomson - Building Emotional Maturity Before Becoming A Medical Student, My Greatest Role Model and The Importance Of Faith During Adversity

During the second part of my conversation with Dr Albert Koomson, we start by taking a step back into his very early life,  growing up in Ghana. When Albert's father accepted a post as a Consultant Anaesthetist in the UK, the family actually relocated to North London nearby to the Tottenham Hotspur football stadium. Albert muses on how living in a challenging neighbourhood gifted him important skills in life but also on how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, accepting the adversity, diversity and social skew that surrounded him in the local areas.   Albert is generous with his inner thoughts, and provides me with insight into why his father is a role model he is in his life, and always will be.  On arriving in the the UK, he made a tremendous success of his career and demonstrated important qualities and attributes to a young and impressionable Albert such as selflessness, kindness, and a insatiable thirst and passion for life which have automatically seared themselves permanently onto Alberts personality also. In Alberts words, he had a ‘sublime courage’, and ‘broke down the doors and glass ceilings’ that were present for many overseas doctors working in the British NHS, especially at a time when they may have experienced episodes of prejudice and unnecessary obstacles. This is an important discussion for us both and draws the parallels with those important to me in my own life. But did you know that Albert actually completed a degree in microbiology at Leicester before moving onto medicine and in hindsight, was not necessarily such a bad idea? He gives important insights into why being mature and emotionally intelligent is an essential prerequisite for building a successful platform during the early years of medical school and a springboard to accepting the seriousness of studying medicine. During the second half of the conversation we swap thoughts about some of the fears of qualification and being a doctor by default as termed by the media so to speak. In particular, he refers to  some of the ‘front line’ military talk rhetoric expressed within the National media which understandably frightened and concerned his cohort.  Albert talks emotionally about dealing with the overwhelming tsunami of COVID-19 on the wards.  The  aggressively steep learning curve and rules of engagement for discussion with worried families as well as reflections on the sudden worsening changes in condition  in a seemingly-well COVID-19 patient. We see insights as to how his faith and belief in God, the importance of good family support , is so important to him and has been transformational in dealing with the pain and fear in the first few months of being a doctor. What is clearly evident from our conversation, is Albert’s wholehearted gratitude to those in his life that have allowed him to be in the position he is and also supported him with his role being on the front line in these last few months. Finally, we finish off by talking about dreams and aspirations for a career in elite organised team sports…..and just why a dream job of being the Manchester United Head medic may not be all it is cracked up to be…. Please enjoy the remainder of this joyful conversation with the charming and funny, Dr Albert Koomson.