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Just how powerful is the Israeli lobby in the UK? On today's show, Richie welcomes back Dr. Rehiana Ali. She is a distinguished consultant neurologist with an unblemished record. She has worked in the NHS for twenty years without a single complaint. Yet last December she was handed an 18-month suspension by the General Medical Council. A group of lawyers with ties to Israel took exception to her comments on Israel's genocide in Gaza. Dr. Ali made the comments on social media, NOT while practicing medicine. She discusses this – and the war on free speech generally – in a fascinating conversation with Richie Plus: Richie rounds up the day's top stories. https://citizengo.org/en-row/oth/14880 https://x.com/Rehiana1980
A video made and posted by Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown has gone viral. In it she criticises the recent press articles about her appearance, saying "this isn't journalism, this is bullying". The 21-year-old posted a three-minute monologue on her Instagram page, in which she called out article headlines and the names of the reporters who wrote them. Anita Rani is joined by Anita Bhagwandas, beauty journalist and author of Ugly, Olivia Petter, journalist with the Independent and Morgan Fargo, Beauty and Wellness Editor British Vogue to talk about the impact of Millie calling this behaviour out.Today the General Medical Council has announced that for the first time since their records began, women doctors practising medicine in the UK are greater in number than their male counterparts in the UK. It is an historic moment, but the announcement also acknowledges that women are more likely to be affected by discriminatory behaviour during their medical training and some specialisms still have relatively low numbers of women. To discuss the challenges faced by women doctors, Anita is joined by Professor Dame Carrie MacEwan, a consultant Ophthalmologist and Chair of the GMC and Dr Leanne Armitage, a locum doctor working in General Medicine and co-founder of the Armitage Foundation for young people from under-represented backgrounds who want to study medicine.Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition that affects less than 2 percent of the population. For as long as the actor and star of Downton Abbey Tuppence Middleton can remember, she has had recurring unwanted intrusive thoughts that led to compulsions such as mental counting, checking and handwashing. She also has emetophobia, an intense fear of vomiting. Tuppence joins Anita to discuss her memoir ‘Scorpions,' which explores nearly thirty years of living with OCD and the impact it has had on her daily life. As the beauty brand Lush marks 30 years Anita is joined by one of the co-founders and product designer, Rowena Bird. Starting with one shop in Dorset, Lush now has over 800 stores in 51 countries, so how do they balance their ethical credentials with their global reach?Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt
Richie is joined by Tony Gosling and Dr. Jayne Donegan. Broadcast journalist Tony Gosling came on to discuss the latest twist in the efforts to secure a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, the unprecedented behaviour of US president Donald Trump and more.https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/Dr. Jayne Donegan came on to discuss news that the General Medical Council has been wiping the records of suspended medics after they changed gender! Jayne also answered listeners questions on vaccinations, the Lucy Letby case and more.https://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/
Richie is joined by Dr. Rehiana Ali. Rehiana Ali is a GP and consultant neurologist with more than 20 years experience. Her record is impeccable. However, a few weeks ago she was reported to The General Medical Council after the national press criticised her over comments she made about the war in Gaza. The complaints made against her have nothing to do with her fitness to practice. It's purely political. Rehiana discusses this and more with Richie. https://x.com/Rehiana1980
After many years of work, the General Medical Council has now begun statutory regulation of physician associates, as well as anaesthesia associates, in addition to doctors. Regulation will help assure patients, colleagues and employers that PAs and AAs have the knowledge and skills to work safely and that they can be held to account if serious concerns are raised. Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen was appointed as Chair of the GMC Council in May 2022. And she joins us on the podcast today, to discuss bringing PAs and AAs into regulation with the GMC. Carrie is a consultant ophthalmologist for NHS Tayside and Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. She served as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges until 2020 and is Past-President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Carrie has served on several committees in support of education, training and assessment and NHS committees regarding service re-design for general medical services. She chairs the multiprofessional subcommittee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and also chairs the Trustee Board of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, is a trustee of the Moorfields Eye Charity and she was a member of the council of the University of Exeter. Carrie was specialty ophthalmology advisor to the Scottish Chief Medical Officer for over a decade and led the Scottish Eyecare Workstream, ceasing this role in June 2022. She was the clinical co-lead for the ophthalmology ‘Getting It Right First Time' programme and the Eye Care Recovery and Transformation Programme for NHS England/Improvement.
In this weeks cannabis news we cover the following stories: Cannabis Transport Gone Wrong – Macky shares the bizarre story of a man jailed for showing up at Cheshire Police HQ with cannabis in his car. Farm Bill Talks – U.S. Senate Farm Bill draft reveals bipartisan efforts to address the growing issues with intoxicating hemp. Ireland's Cannabis Debate – Billy discusses the Taoiseach's recent statement on decriminalization and what it could mean for the 2024 elections. Doctors Speak Out – Billy also highlights a letter to the General Medical Council about a doctor's application to prescribe cannabis. RFK Jr.'s Vision for Reform – Margaret explores RFK Jr.'s plans to cut prescription drug reliance while increasing access to cannabis and psychedelics in a potential administration. Come and join in the discussion about any of these news articles on our cannabis growing forum, Discord server, or any of your favourite social networks. Visit our website for links. Website: https://highonhomegrown.com Discord: https://discord.gg/sqYGkF4xyQ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/highonhomegrown Thank you for downloading and listening to our cannabis podcast! I hope you enjoy this episode.
James and the wonderfully brave and ferocious Dr Anne McCloskey, discuss her long battle with the PSNI, the General Medical Council, the High Court, her internment without a trial and warn of the further shenanigans we all face in the very near future. https://x.com/DrAnneDerry/ ↓ ↓ ↓ Monetary Metals is providing a true alternative to saving and earning in dollars by making it possible to save AND EARN in gold and silver. Monetary Metals has been paying interest on gold and silver for over 8 years. Right now, accredited investors can earn 12% annual interest on silver, paid in silver in their latest silver bond offering. For example, if you have 1,000 ounces of silver in the deal, you receive 120 ounces of silver interest paid to your account in the first year. Go to the link in the description or head to https://monetary-metals.com/delingpole/ to learn more about how to participate and start earning a return on honest money again with Monetary Metals. ↓ ↓ ↓ Buy James a Coffee at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jamesdelingpole The official website of James Delingpole: https://jamesdelingpole.co.uk x
Can AI transform the landscape of medical education? Join us as we bring you an enlightening discussion with David Lay, Assessment Manager at Queen Mary University of London, who unveils AI's transformative role in enhancing medical training. David takes host Bill Banham through his fascinating journey from a History student to a leader in competency-based training, highlighting the challenges medical trainees face, particularly those under the UK's National Health Service. Explore how AI streamlines training processes and integrates with the General Medical Council's competency-based curriculum to revolutionize the medical education landscape and allow healthcare professionals more time to focus on patient care.Personalized learning meets advanced technology in this thought-provoking episode. Discover how AI recognizes diverse learning styles and personality types to enhance training efficiency without compromising core educational goals. We dive into the automation of administrative tasks, providing more room for valuable feedback and professional development. David emphasizes the essential role of human oversight in AI-driven processes, particularly in the critical field of healthcare. By augmenting existing educational structures, AI not only aims to reduce training hours but also preserves the vital interpersonal skills necessary for patient care. Listen in for a glimpse into the future of medical training and the incredible potential of AI to elevate both education and patient care.---Message from our sponsor: Looking for a solution to manage your global workforce?With Deel, you can easily onboard global employees, streamline payroll, and ensure local compliance. All in one flexible, scalable platform! Join thousands of companies who trust Deel with their global HR needs. Visit deel.com to learn how to manage your global team with unmatched speed, flexibility, and compliance.---Feature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events
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Shownotes and Transcript Dr. Andy Wakefield joins Hearts of Oak to discuss his transition from mainstream physician to medical industry whistle-blower, sharing with us his findings on the MMR vaccine's link to autism. He talks about facing backlash, making films like "Vaxxed" and the recently released "Protocol 7" to address vaccine safety and pharmaceutical fraud. Despite challenges like losing his license, Andy stresses the importance of revealing the truth to the public. He highlights the profit-driven pharmaceutical industry's negligence towards patient safety, legal protections shielding companies from vaccine injury liability, and the need for public involvement in spreading awareness and demanding accountability. PROTOCOL 7 - An Andy Wakefield Film WEBSITE protocol7.movie X/TWITTER x.com/P7Movie INSTAGRAM instagram.com/protocol7movie Andy Wakefield has been likened to the Dreyfus of his generation -- a doctor falsely accused of scientific and medical misconduct, whose discoveries opened up entirely new perceptions of childhood autism, the gut-brain link, and vaccine safety. As an ‘insider,' the price for his discoveries and his refusal to walk away from the issues they raised, was swift and brutal, with loss of job, career, reputation, honours, colleagues, and country. And yet he enjoys a huge and growing support from around the world. Wakefield's stance made him a trusted place for whistle-blowers -- from government and industry to confess and ‘download.' He has extraordinary stories to share. Wakefield is now an award-winning filmmaker. Despite elaborate attempts at censorship, his documentary VAXXED: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe – the revelations of a vaccine scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- changed the public mindset on the truth about vaccine safety. Wakefield's is a story that starts with professional trust in the instincts of mothers, choice and consequences, a quest for truth, and perseverance against overwhelming odds. Andy has long pursued the scientific link between childhood vaccines, intestinal inflammation, & neurological injury in children. Dr. Wakefield is the co-founder of the Autism Media Channel & the founder of 7th Chakra Films. He is the director of his first major narrative feature, the recently released #Protocol7, co-written with Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fast and Furious, Godzilla vs. King Kong). Connect with Andy... WEBSITE 7thchakrafilms.com INSTAGRAM instagram.com/andrewjwakefield X/TWITTER x.com/DrAndyWakefield Interview recorded 25.6.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP heartsofoak.org/shop/ Transcript (Hearts of Oak) I am delighted to have Dr. Andrew Wakefield with us today. Andrew, thank you so much for joining us today. (Dr Andy Wakefield) Peter, my pleasure. Great to be here. Great to have you. And your name will be well known, certainly to many Brits. And I live through what you faced just as a Brit consuming news. And we'll get into all of that. People can follow you @DrAndyWakefield on Twitter. And we're going to talk about your latest film, Protocol7.Movie. All the links will be in the description. So we will get to that. But I encourage people to not only look at your Twitter feed, but also look at the website for the film, which is literally just out. But you're the award-winning filmmaker of Vaxxed and many other films. And of course, the latest one just came out. Doctor, if I can bring us back a little bit, because you had a certain time where your name was massively out there and that was simply asking questions. I think a lot of us have woken up to maybe big pharma, have woken up to vaccines and their role over the last four years. And you were much earlier than many people in the public. But that Lancet MMR autism, and I think your Wikipedia probably says fraud more than any other Wikipedia I've ever read. But you talked about that link between MMR, mumps, measles and rubella vaccine and autism. Maybe you could just go back and let us know your background, your medical background, and then what led up to you putting that out and maybe give us an insight into the chaos that ensued? Certainly, Peter. I was an entirely mainstream physician. I graduated at St. Mary's Hospital in London, part of the University of London, one of six generations of doctors in my family to have graduated there. And I ran a research team in gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital in North London and our principal interests were Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis inflammatory bowel disease, and in 1995 parents started contacting me and saying my child was perfectly fine they had an MMR vaccine in many cases and they regressed rapidly into autism, had seizures, lost speech, and language interaction with their siblings. And ultimately they were diagnosed with autism, well I know I knew nothing about autism. It was so rare when I was at medical school we weren't taught about it and I said you must have got the wrong number,. They said the reason we're contacting you is my child has intractable bowel problems, failure to thrive, they're in pain, I know they're in pain even though they've lost the ability to communicate. And the doctors and nurses that I've spoken to about this have said that's just part of autism, get over it, put them in a home, move on have another child. It's an extraordinary situation and so we investigated these children I put together a very eminent team of physicians. Who investigated these children and confirmed that the parents were right the children had I had an inflammatory bowel disease, and that's now been confirmed in multiple studies worldwide. When we treated that bowel disease, then not only did the gastrointestinal symptoms improve, but the autism improved. We didn't cure it, but the children, for example, started using words they hadn't used for five years. It was quite extraordinary. And so as academics, we said that didn't happen, and we did it 183 times, and it happened pretty much every time. So, we then began to believe that there was something really very, very interesting. So, when the parents said my child regressed after a vaccine, we had a professional and moral obligation to take that very seriously. But that really flew in the face of government policy and pharmaceutical industry profiteering. And that was really the beginning of the end of my career. The dean, Harry Zuckerman, took me aside and said, if you continue this vaccine safety research, it will not be good for your career. In that, at least he was correct. And when you offend government policymaking and the bottom line for the pharmaceutical industry, really, there's no price you will not pay. And people are now familiar with that. In the context of COVID, it's happened to many, many eminent doctors and scientists. But at the time, this was was a novelty, the cancel culture was a novelty, the ability of the system to destroy your career if you stepped out of line was something really quite new. And... So, I moved to America, set up a centre there for here in Austin, Texas for autism. They eventually destroyed my career there. And so I thought, well, how can I continue to help this population? And I'd been fascinated by filmmaking for a long time, screenwriting for a long time. And what had happened, Peter, is that over the years, because of the position I'd taken, And people had come to me from the Department of Health in the UK or from regulatory agencies such as the CDC in the US or the industry, the vaccine manufacturers, and said, we've done a terrible thing. Here is the evidence. We've committed fraud. And so I became a repository, if you like, for whistle-blowers. And this story, the latest story, Protocol 7, I mean, my films have been made about these whistle-blowers, some of them. And the latest story, Protocol 7, is one such whistle-blower, who came to me many years ago and presented to me the compelling story that ultimately we've turned into a major narrative feature film. Well, we'll get into that, but the role of media, I mean, you had BBC Channel 4 with hit pieces against you and I'm sure many others. What was that like? Because you said you were kind of mainstream. I remember that time as well, whenever I was mainstream, probably six years ago. So, it was a little bit later due. And you believe these institutions are positive. They're about actually reporting the news. And then you realize, actually, they're not. What was that like whenever you had all these media outlets suddenly make you a target of their reporting? Well, I think it really, part of it was Rupert Murdoch, his son, James Murdoch, was put onto the board of GlaxoSmithKline, Europe's biggest manufacturer of MMR, with the objective as a non-executive director of protecting that company's interests in the media, certainly the Murdoch media. And his target was me and they came after me in the biggest way and in the wake of that you know channel 4 as you say and others followed suit. It was very tricky. It was very difficult, because you didn't get to put the other side of it everything was heavily edited and it was just a relentless attack they were determined utterly determined that I committed fraud never committed scientific fraud in my life. But you can destroy the career of a physician or scientist in five minutes, literally five minutes. All you need is the headline and that's it. And then you spend the rest of your life trying to. Get back your reputation if ever. And I abandoned that idea because it was, the issue wasn't about me. It was about something far more important. And as soon as I, you know, I stopped worrying about what the media might say about me and simply got on with the job of doing what I could to help these children, then a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders. I just didn't worry about that anymore. Say what they like. I've got a job to do while I still have time on this planet. And that was to advocate on behalf of these children and try and move the needle on the real pandemic, which is of childhood neurodevelopmental disorders. I mean, it's in the media in the UK every day. We're talking about one in just over 20 children in Northern Ireland, in Scotland, in the UK. And this is an extraordinary level of a permanent serious neurological condition. When I was at medical school, it was one in 10,000. So what has happened? Just to bring your listeners up to date, your viewers up to date. The CDC performed a study at my behest. I told them, I said, look, I think that age of exposure is a major factor. The younger you are when you get the MMR, the greater the risk. It's not simply you get the MMR, you get autism. That's not it. There's got to be a co-factor associated with it. And age of exposure is one, I believe. Now, everybody is now familiar that the outcome from a viral infection, for example, COVID, is age-related. The older you are with COVID, the greater the risk. So everybody gets that now. And I said this to them. I said, I think that younger of age, your exposure is a major risk. Why? Because with natural measles, if you get it under one, you're at greater risk of a severe outcome than you are if you're over one. There is an age-related risk. So, they went away, they tested that hypothesis, and they confirmed that it was absolutely true. And they spent the next 14 years covering up, destroying the data, destroying the documents and changing the results to say that MMR vaccine was safe. And it was only when William Thompson, the senior scientist at the CDC who had designed the study, collected the data and analysed the data, had written the paper, came to me, came to a colleague of mine who came to me and said, we have done this terrible thing. I can no longer live with it. Here is the truth. And that was the basis of the film Vaxxed. And it wasn't my opinion. It wasn't my producer's opinion. This was the senior scientist from the CDC responsible for the study confessing to this fraud. What happened? Nothing. No one was held accountable. Absolutely appalling. These people, these five scientists at the CDC and their superiors had. Committed fraud and put millions of children at risk of serious permanent neurological disease and done so wilfully, knowing that there was a risk. And so I was appalled. And beyond that, I thought my filmmaking is going to expose people. It's going to actually hold people accountable for what they've done. Your study was, it was a small study, wasn't it? I think it was what like a dozen or 16. You're simply saying there does seem to be a link and it's surprising it could have been surprised, one time it should have been surprising, that actually a doctor who raises a concern that should surely be looked at and checked over instead of attacking but it wasn't a massive. You were simply saying these this is the pattern that I'm seeing in the small number of patients that I'm looking at in this study. That's absolutely right. The way in which human disease syndromes are described is usually in a handful of patients who present with... It's such a consistent pattern of signs and symptoms of clinical measures that they merit reporting in their own right. And that's exactly what this was. It couldn't test any hypothesis. It couldn't come to any conclusions other than more research was needed. It actually said this study does not confirm an association between the vaccine. It doesn't. It couldn't do. It is merely reporting the parent's story. And it was a very sober paper. But of course, the media blew it up to claim that I had said MMR vaccine causes autism. No, I didn't. However, I would say that now in light of the CDC study, I would most certainly. And it's their behaviour. It's their need to commit the fraud and hide the data that is the most compelling evidence that there is this clear link. They know there's a link, and rather than do something responsible about it they have put the children at continued risk. In fact they've expanded the vaccine program dramatically, so they've put even more children at risk in my opinion. No, completely and where many of us maybe may not have been anti-vaxxers five years ago we sure as hell are now so it's changed completely, but can I just ask you; you were up against the UK General Medical Council. They're the ones that allow you to practice. They're a judge and jury. It was like a few years investigation. Then in 2010, they decided that you were no longer acceptable. They struck you off. Tell us about that, because I've talked to doctors recently during the COVID chaos who have fought for their right to continue to practice as doctors and they've struggled. You were doing this 14 years ago. What was that experience at the General Medical Council? It was difficult. It was really difficult because there needn't have been a hearing. They'd made up their minds before we even walked through the door. The General Medical Council were under threat from the government of having their powers taken away and the government dictating policy such as right to practice and medical sort of ethics. And they therefore were under scrutiny from the government. They had to deliver on a decision, and they did. Now, the reason I can say that is that their decision was contrived and indeed made up their minds before they even come to the hearing is that when it came for the first time before a proper judiciary, before the UK's sort of senior courts, if you like. The judge was appalled by the GMC's behaviour. He said, and this is in the trial of John Walker Smith, my colleague's appeal against the decision to strike him off, he said, this must never happen again. It was really a political tool to destroy dissent. Now, I appealed as well as John Walker Smith, but I was told by my lawyers that it would cost me half a million pounds to pursue that appeal. I didn't have half a million pounds. I didn't have anything. So, the law belongs to those who can afford it. And that's a fact, whether you live in America or whether you live in the UK. Justice belongs to those who can pay for it. And so there was no opportunity for me to have my case heard on its merits it was simply thrown out. What we did do though when Brian Dear a journalist published in the British medical journal now claiming that I had committed fraud which is absolute nonsense. We sought to sue him and the British Medical Journal in the state of Texas. Now, that's where I lived. That's where my reputation was damaged. And that's where there was legal precedent that allowed us to sue them. Because the BMJ is a journal, sells its wares, its journal, to Texas medical schools. It profits from Texas medical schools. And there is a long-arm statute in Texas that allows us to sue them for defamation. Why would you, it costs about $3 million to sue someone for defamation. Why would you even think of doing that in a situation where all of the evidence is going to be laid bare for the public to scrutinize? Why would you do that if you committed fraud? You wouldn't do it. There was no fraud and therefore we had an extremely strong case and they knew it. They absolutely knew it and and they did everything they could to get out of it. Ultimately, the judge, the appeal court judges here ruled that we did not have jurisdiction. That went in the face of all of the legal precedent. We did not have jurisdiction. Indeed, the BMJ lawyers invoked Texas law in an attack on us. I mean, it was extraordinary that we weren't allowed to sue them here in Texas. This was a political decision from the highest level. They did not want this case to go forward. They They knew we were going to prevail, we were going to win, and that would have undermined their entire sort of years and years and years attacking me and others for suggesting that MMR vaccine might not be safe. And so we were denied the opportunity to have the case heard on its merits, and that's where it remains. Tell us about Vaxxed in 2016 from cover-up to catastrophe. And that talks about the CDC and others destroying evidence to show that there could be a link between MMR and autism. That's something which I think many of us over the last four years would probably accept that sounds plausible, definitely that makes sense, because of what we've seen with big pharma and the collusion with media and governments. But this, you put this out prior to that happening probably in a world where maybe people may not accept that as much because there was more were trusting institutions. But tell us about that film and the authorities wanting to destroy any evidence which would show there was a link. Yes, that was a fascinating film because, as I say, it was an insider from the CDC who was intimately involved in the study that looked at age of exposure to MMR and autism. And it clearly showed that the younger you were when when you've got the vaccine, the greater the risk of autism. And that was in... All children, boys in particular, and black boys above all. For some reason, black children seem to be highly susceptible to this adverse vaccine reaction. Now, we don't know the reason for that. Further follow-up studies should have been done. Now, when the CDC found this association, they had some clear options that would have been there available to them in the interests of the the American public. They could have said, right, we can delay. Let's suggest delaying this vaccine until it's safer. And we have done a bigger, better study to confirm it or refute it. That's what they should have done, to give parents the information, to give them the option. But they didn't. They trashed all of the documents. They trashed the data. They altered the results. And they, for 14 years deceived the public, doctors, the government, everybody, and so it was a very powerful story and we made the documentary it got into the Tribeca film festival which for us was one of the sort of preeminent film festivals and then it was withdrawn, it was censored. And I think that occurred because one of the sponsors of the film was involved in money management on Wall Street involving the pharmaceutical companies and also perhaps a sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival. And so, you know, this is what I hear, whether it's true or not, that remains to be seen. But we were censored. This is the first time this had ever happened at Tribeca Film Festival. And it was a bad few days. And then De Niro went on the television on the what's called Good Morning America and the Today Show, the big national shows and said, we should never have done that. We should have played this film, everybody should have seen it and made up their own minds. And suddenly there was an explosion of interest in this film that people had been banned from seeing. And every attempt by the media to cover it up or De Niro's partner, Jane Rosenthal, to shut him down during interviews failed. He was very angry, very angry. And it had the impact of spreading the news of this film worldwide. And so what we saw at that point, which should have pre-empted COVID, was a major shift in people's perception. They came to the movie theatre, they watched the movie, and they said, wow. There is something, there's a problem here. And then, of course, we had the COVID experience and the extraordinary mishandling and misconduct and lies and deception, about the disease, its origins, and the vaccines, so-called vaccine. And public trust in the public health authorities has never been at such a low. And it will never recover and the point peter is this is that they only have themselves to blame. That is the truth. It's no good then coming after me, or after you, or people who bring them the message or come from the clinic and saying this is what I see in these children. They only have themselves to blame for their arrogance and their stupidity. Now, 2016 it was about that specific link MMR and autism 2019 you widened it in vax 2and to look at actually side effects, vaccine harms, across a range. And certainly the issue does not seem to just be one vaccine, there seems to be a range and we've seen that, and I know any parent will have had this conversation thought, any parent that actually is aware of conversations happening, and they will maybe have questioned the rush to jab children. I will touch on the amount of jabs children now get, which is quite concerning, the rise of jabs. But 2019, yeah, you widen it away from just MMR and concerns of side effects to this seems to be in many vaccinations. Was that received differently or do you still have the the same uphill struggle. Now, that film was not mine. It was made by Brian Burrows and Polly Tommy. And I was interviewed for that film, but it wasn't my movie. But what happened, it was based upon a series of interviews. After Vaxxed, we went off across the country, principally Polly Tommy, interviewing thousands of parents about their experience. And it emerged that other vaccines were involved as well. And I'd come to this via a different route. I came over to America to testify before Congress on the vaccine autism issue. And there I became aware that the mercury in vaccines was a problem. I wasn't aware of it before, that aluminium in vaccines was a problem. And so it became clear that it is very likely that it's the actual toxic load that a child is presented with at a very early stage, rather than just being one vaccine or another. Now, we'll never be able to discern the truth of that. We know which vaccines are involved, which are more important or less important. And this comes to a point you've made, is that they have so many vaccines now that how do you even begin to untangle the complexity, the permutations of how was it this vaccine or this one and this one together or these three or these 15? We just don't know. And I think there's almost been a deliberate attempt to expand the program without doing the appropriate safety research in order to make it virtually impossible possible to target any specific vaccine. So, I think that my sort of current thinking on it, and had we been allowed to conclude our research without it being sabotaged, is that it is related to the toxic load. And there is a study that has literally just come out from Brian Hooker. Scientist with an affected child, that shows that there is an exponential increase in severe adverse reactions like autism with increasing load of vaccines. The more you're given at one time, the greater the risk of an adverse reaction. This dose response effect is very plausible and is very strong evidence of causation. So, the field is highly complex. I'm quite certain that the sheer volume of vaccines that are given to children is way in excess of being safe. I mean, way in excess. And it has never been subjected to any formal clinical trial. You know, is it safe to give multiple vaccines at the same time? Hasn't been done. Well, yeah let me poke, because the issue is supposedly we have had a vaccine that's tested over a 10-year period or whatever and then it's decided safe, but the amount of vaccines that children are given; there is absolutely no way you could do any long-term study on that number of combinations of vaccines. So, it's completely into the unknown. It is. Now and here's the dilemma lemma is that when you take a pharmaceutical agent in the United States, for example. Then it goes through years, literally sort of 10, 15 years of clinical trials, randomized control clinical trials using a placebo, an inert placebo, before it's deemed to be safe. And yet with vaccines, that doesn't apply. They're classified as biologics, and the bar is set very much lower for safety. And so for the childhood vaccines, there has never been a proper long-term placebo-controlled randomized trial of safety. And therefore, it is deceptive, entirely deceptive to say that these vaccines are safe. They're not because they've never been subjected to the appropriate safety studies. And people need to know that. People need to realize that. It just has not been done. And it's now, you know, it's too late to close the gate. The horse has bolted. The vaccine safety studies are very difficult to do now, certainly prospectively. Well, one thing I just, before I get into Protocol 7, one thing I realized traveling the States so much over the last couple of years is that you turn on a TV, so different from Britain, and you see an advert for medication and it tells you how wonderful this medication is. And then half the advert is telling you the possible side effects and usually ends up with death. And you're thinking, that's the last thing I want to have. But that's a world away, and that's just kind of pushed through and accepted that actually the side effect could be much worse than the disease or the issue that it's trying to address. And you think, I sit and watch some of those adverts when I'm over in the States and think, how do we get to this situation where death is seemingly better than a headache? It is bizarre and this direct consumer advertising that happens in America and the other the only other place it happens is New Zealand. We don't, you know it doesn't happen in the UK, but it it's it's there's something more insidious about it, and that is the fact that the nightly news networks here way in excess of 70% of their income comes from the pharmaceutical industry advertising. They could not sustain their operation, a news operation, in the absence of that pharmaceutical industry sponsorship. And so, the industry controls the narrative the industry controls the editorial the headline they're not going to publish something and this happened to me I was interviewing with a girl called Cheryl Ackerson outstanding journalist who was at the the time at CBS. And she said, Andy, when we have finished editing this sequence about vaccines and autism, I will get a call within, you know, in 15 minutes, I'll get a call from the money men on the top story, a top floor saying, you will not play this segment because our sponsors have said they'll pull their money. Well, she was wrong. It was five minutes later. It came five minutes later. And that's the way they operate, I'm afraid. So there is, over and above advertising their drugs, there is something far more sinister about the control, the influence that these drug companies have over American mainstream media. Fortunately, in the UK, that direct-to-consumer advertising does not exist. So I want to jump on, which fits perfectly into Protocol 7, which seems to be about someone, a lawyer, small town, sees issues with Big Pharma, with the industry and wants to challenge. And it is a David and Goliath, something I guess, as you alluded to, we're all up against with Big Pharma. But tell us about this film, which is a story about a whistle-blower, but also going up against Big Pharma. This is based on a true story whistle-blower who came to me many years ago at a meeting in Chicago and revealed this fraud within Merck in respect of its mumps vaccine. And it's really a story more about the behaviour, how the industry behaves when confronted with a threat to its profiteering and its monopolistic sort of control of a vaccine in a country like America. And it's against sort of set against the love and devotion the um intuition of a mother who happens to be a lawyer who fights who battles against the power of the industry. And I'm not going to spoil the end for anyone but I urge people to see this film. It is it's now won 27 film awards it's only just really come out. It's got some wonderful reviews. Very, very high scores on rotten tomatoes and IMDb, so the key to the success of this film is its dissemination is people watching it and we're planning our UK release our European release as well right now So when it comes, please support it. Please get your friends and family to it. Merck realized in the 90s that the Mumps vaccine wasn't working and they took, many, many steps to cover that up and to essentially defraud the American public, the medical profession and others. And that's what the story is about. And it's based upon documents, actual documents obtained from that company that confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt what happened. It's important in the context of safety. And you may say, why is it? The film really is about, or Merck's fraud, was about the efficacy, the protectiveness of the vaccine. It wasn't working as well as they said it was working. And that made it dangerous. Why? Because mumps in children is a trivial condition. That's acknowledged by the CDC. Mumps in post-pubertal adults is not trivial. You risk suffering testicular inflammation and sterility or or ovarian inflammation, brain inflammation. And so a vaccine that doesn't work or only works for a limited amount of time will make you susceptible to mumps again when you're past puberty, when you're in that at-risk period. And so a vaccine that doesn't work makes it a dangerous vaccine. It makes mumps a more dangerous disease. And this is a very important thing to understand within the context of mumps. Merck certainly knew about it and continued to defraud the public despite that. So yeah, it's a very, very important film over and above the issue of mumps. It's about how the industry responds to threats that really sort of compromise its ability to earn revenue, make profits, and maintain a monopoly. Because I think people often forget, and maybe have woken up during the COVID tyranny, that these institutions, they exist to make money for their shareholders. They don't really exist to make a product which makes you better. Their primary aim is the share price for shareholders, just like any company. And if they make a product that actually helps you, then to me, that's a bonus. Is that too cynical a view of the industry? No, it's absolutely true. And they wouldn't deny that. They would say, we're here as a business to make money. We're here as a business to serve our shareholders, our stockholders, first and foremost. That's not ambiguous at all. They would admit to that. The problem comes when everything's fine and they're making good drugs and they're benefiting people. That's fine. It's how the industry responds when something goes wrong. And for example, with Merck and Vioxx, the drug that, you know, was notoriously unsafe. But, you know, they knew at the time of licensing that there were problems. It was causing strokes and heart attacks. It was estimated, I think, that many hundreds or thousands of people suffered as a consequence of that drug. In the litigation in Australia, where Merck were, really, their heads were on the block about this. They uncovered some, in discovery, they uncovered documents which were an exchange between Merck employees about what to do about doctors who criticized their drug. And they said, we may have to seek them out and destroy them where they live. This is not conspiracy theory. This is company policy. There you have these guys saying, we may have to seek them out and destroy them where they live. Okay, so these are the kind of people with whom you're dealing. Tell us, because we hear that these companies are beyond the legal sphere. They have protections and safeguards within countries, and it doesn't matter what side effects that the drug causes, they have this legal protection. I mean, is that the case, or is there a way of actually using the legal system to actually go after these companies? Or is it a slap on the wrist? Sometimes they pay out money to different governments and they say: oops Well there there is and it's interesting the national childhood vaccine injury act in this country in America in 1986 took away liability financial liability from the drug companies for death and injury caused by childhood vaccines on the recommended schedule. Now, that was a gold mine for the industry because they had mandatory markets. Kids had effectively to get vaccinated to go to school and no liability. All they could do was make a profit. But the legal system does work sometimes. And in the context of COVID and the so-called COVID vaccine. There's just been a ruling, I think, by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that has said COVID vaccine is not a vaccine. It doesn't protect against disease and it doesn't stop transmission. Ergo, it is not a vaccine. Now, once it's not a vaccine, by ruling of the court, it's not covered by the indemnity. It's not covered by the government protecting the industry. Suddenly, they're on their own. And that really raises some very interesting legal possibilities that is for litigation in this country. So, we'll see what happens. But there will be every effort by the government to side with the pharmaceutical industry to prevent them being sued, I'm quite sure, because that's what happened. But let's hope that the judges see it differently. I just want to end off on people's response to you because you were maligned, attacked. The media tried to discredit you. You then moved to the US. You lost your medical license. But these films you're putting out, they tell a compelling story. Tell us about how you feel these films have woken people up, maybe in a way that back whenever this happened to you 25 years ago, the opening was not there for the same ability to win people over. The opening does seem to be here now, maybe because of COVID, maybe people are more aware, maybe because of alternative media. But tell us about the message you're putting out in these films and kind of the response you're getting. Thing well really the films are made in a way that they're entirely up to the protocol seven, these were entirely factual documentary films and so vax for example if there'd been any word of a lie, if we'd got something wrong, we would have we've accused these scientists at the CDC of the worst sort of humanitarian crime. Their job was to protect these children they did completely the opposite. The hypocrisy goes way beyond what we've seen before and so if there had been a problem. We would have been sued to the moon and back again and there wasn't and they why because they know that it's true. And that's a very powerful thing and the same comes now with protocol 7 even though it's a narrative feature film. If there was something in that film that was defamatory of Merck, then they would come after us. They may well do because they're big and rich and powerful, certainly far more powerful than we are. But that's not a reason. Not to get the story out. My commitment is, my duty is to the public, not to Merck or to the government or indeed to the whistle-blower, but to the public who are being harmed. And so never make a decision based in fear. This is something I've learned over the years. If the story has merit, if it's honest, if it's true, if it has integrity, then you get it out there and, you know, let the cards fall where they may. Yeah completely. I want to ask you about funding, because it's everything costs money. It is actually, it takes a lot of work not only finance but expertise and research to put anything like this out and you know you're going up against an industry that will attack you in any opening any any chink in your armour. Was it difficult to actually raise funding to put these films together? Initially, it was. You know, this is my fifth film, and initially it was difficult, because people said, well, you're a physician. You know, what are you doing making films? Now they say, they're much more inclined to say, you've proven you can do it. Get on and make the next one. It's not easy, particularly in the current climate, I mean, Hollywood itself is in the doldrums; filmmaking, but the people still want meaningful films they want films that count films like Sound of Freedom and others that they really mean something that are worth going to the movie theatres to watch. And so that's the kind of film that we're making and hopefully we'll be able to continue to do it. I just can ask you about the last last thing about those who want to be part of what's happening, supporting the film as it comes out. I mean, how do they play a part? They can go, obviously, to the website, protocol7.movie, make sure and follow that, and they can follow your Twitter. But if they want to say, actually, I believe this message, it's so true, I have friends, family, actually suffering side effects, not only MMR, but across the board, and I want to make sure this message gets out. How can they play a part in doing that? One thing they can do, I mean, if they're immensely rich, they can fund the next film. If they're not, then they can help. People can help by going to the website and clicking on Pay It Forward. And this is a way of, we saw it with Sound of Freedom. It was very successful, a way of providing tickets for people who might not otherwise be able to afford a ticket to go and watch the movie, or for people who might not be inclined otherwise to go. In other words if there if there is an incentive to get a free ticket they may go and then be persuaded. And so it's a way of helping other people to access the film. When they might not otherwise be able to or be inclined to do that so pay it forward is a very useful device. And of course on the website you can pass on the trailer and make sure people watch that and get ready for it. Please do. Now, the success of the film comes down to the public. And that means, you know, your listeners, your viewers. So, we're very, very grateful for any help in that respect. And Sound of Freedom did that to a degree we hadn't seen before. And I encourage the viewers and listeners to do the same for Protocol 7. Dr. Andrew Wakefield, it is an honour to have you on and someone who I read all the stuff. In the late 90s and probably believed a lot of it that uh how times change and it's great to have you on and thank you for what you're doing on getting the message out on the link between the pharmaceutical industry and side effects. Well thank you so much. My pleasure thank you for having me on.
Richie is joined by Dr. Asif Munaf. Asif made headlines earlier this year when he was kicked off the hit BBC television show "The Apprentice." A short time later, he was suspended by the General Medical Council. His crime? Well, in a number of social media posts he strongly condemned Israel's brutal bombardment of Gaza in the wake of the October 7th attack. That's right. A doctor with twelve years of unblemished service to the NHS was suspended for expressing an opinion. Asif shares his story with Richie.https://x.com/DrAsifOfficialhttps://www.skool.com/modernmuslimman/aboutPlus; Richie rounds up the day's top stories.
Listen to Dr Rohan Mehra, RCP clinical education fellow, (Infectious diseases/microbiology SPR) and Dr Mumtaz Patel, as they shine a spotlight on differential attainment in healthcare. This is a pervasive issue within UK healthcare which requires work from everyone. Here Rohan and Mumtaz illustrate the issue, how it impacts people and what you can do to try and make a difference. Dr Mumtaz Patel is a consultant in nephrology in Manchester as well as Senior censor and Vice President for education for the RCP. Mumtaz led nationally on the research around Differential Attainment for over 5 years and has led cross-collaborative research across organisations such as GMC, NHSE, royal colleges and within different specialties with a focus on earlier interventions and support to improve educational outcomes and trainee experience. Mumtaz has helped produce national guidance around supporting trainers and trainees in addressing and narrowing the Differential attainment gap. This work has had national and international recognition with presentations at multiple conferences. Resources:GMC: tackling differential attainment.https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/standards-guidance-and-curricula/guidance/tackling-differential-attainmentAcademic papers highlighting differential attainment and steps that need taken:Woolf K, Potts HW. Ethnicity and academic performance in UK-trained doctors and medical students: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2011;342:d901.Regan de Bere S, Nunn S, Nasser M. Understanding differential attainment across medical training pathways: a rapid review of the literature Final report prepared for The General Medical Council. 2015. https://www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents/gmc-understanding-differential-attainment_pdf-63533431.pdfWoolfe K, Rich A, Viney R, Needleman S, Griffin A. Perceived causes of differential attainment in UK postgraduate medical training: a national qualitative study. BMJ Open 2016;6:e013429https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/14105.aspHawkridge A, Molyneux D. (2019) A description and evaluation of an educational programme for North West England GP trainees who have multiple fails in the Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA). Education for Primary Care. 30(3):167-172. https://www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents/gmc-da-final-report-success-factors-in-training-211119_pdf-80914221.pdfJeremy Brown, Liam Jenkins, John Sandars, Julie Bridson, Mumtaz Patel (2023) Evaluation of the Impact of the Workshop ‘EQiT – Embedding Compassionate, Courageous, Cross-cultural Conversations into Training' General Medical CouncilJeremy Brown, Liam Jenkins, John Sandars, Julie Bridson, Mumtaz Patel (2023) Evaluation of the impact of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Clinical Assessment of Skill and Applied Knowledge masterclass on reducing the attainment gap General Medical Council Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, 2023 Principles for exam preparation, feedback and support for candidates to address the awarding gap.Patel, M. Differential Attainment and implementing successful strategies, RCP commentary 2023, https://70b706f2.flowpaper.com/CommAugust2023v2/#page=18 Music by Bensound.comThis episode was funded by Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Limited. Vertex had no involvement in the creation and elaboration of this episode and all views and opinions expressed by the presenter and guests are solely their own.
How can child health professionals use social media in a professional capacity - including for public health information and for learning? What are its benefits and what are its perils? And how can you protect yourself as a clinician? This month on The Paeds Round, Dr Emma Lim and Dr Christo Tsilifis are joined by our multi-talented podcast producer and dermatology registrar, Dr Jonny Guckian, who runs the medical education site, MediSense, and has held numerous social media-facing roles. Jonny, Emma and Christo discuss the good and the bad of social media and offer practical guidance on how you can make the most of these platforms. Download transcript (PDF) Links mentioned in the episode: General Medical Council ethical hub – social media guidance Bloom's taxonomy of learning (Wikipedia) Kidzmed eLearning programme This podcast is a collaboration between the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Medisense. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast relates only to the speaker and not necessarily to their employer, organisation, RCPCH or any other group or individual. Subscribe to The paeds round for more educational episodes! And, you can find more RCPCH educational resources on RCPCH Learning. Want to hear more from RCPCH? Search for and subscribe to RCPCH Podcasts, our main channel.
Interviewees: Drs. Megan Brown and Jo Hartland Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Description: In this episode, podcast co-host Lisa Meeks had the privilege of hearing from Drs. Megan Brown and Jo Harland, two UK physicians with disabilities, who collaborated on a thought-provoking poem critiquing disability inclusion in the medical field. In this poem reading, Drs. Brown and Hartland challenge the narrative of "overcoming" and "inspiration porn" often associated with disabled individuals. They emphasize the importance of embracing one's true identity and resisting the pressure to conform to societal expectations. Reminding us that disabled individuals should not have to prove their worth above others and deserve to be valued for who they are. The poem also highlights the ongoing struggle faced by disabled healthcare professionals in securing necessary accommodations in their work environments. It sheds light on the burden placed on individuals to constantly fight for their needs and the importance of organizations recognizing and addressing these challenges. Listeners will gain deeper insights into the experiences of disabled healthcare professionals and the critical issues surrounding disability inclusion in the medical field. Bios: Dr Megan Brown is a Senior Research Associate in Medical Education at Newcastle University, in the School of Medicine, in the UK. She trained as a doctor, but decided to leave practice and has subsequently pursued medical education research. She is multiply disabled – she uses a walking stick, and is neurodivergent. Megan's research has focused on issues relating to the clinical education workforce within the UK, and equality, diversity, and inclusion within this workforce across the spectrum of undergraduate to postgraduate experience. She is a published poet, and is passionate about creative methods of expression and research. Dr Jo Hartland (they/them) qualified from Cardiff University in 2013 and left NHS clinical work in 2018. They have worked at the University of Bristol Medical School since 2018, and are the current School Deputy Education Director for Student Equity Diversity and Inclusion. Their teaching focuses on the integration of marginalised people's voices in healthcare curriculums, and empowering students to be agents of change in the face of health inequity. They sit on the executive board of the UK Medical Schools Council EDI Alliance, with a focus on LGBTQ+ inclusion and reasonable adjustments for disability. Their research interests lie in the intersection of professionalism and how this can act as a gatekeeping device for marginalised communities accessing healthcare careers. Outside of their university work Jo is a queer health activist and lead author of the GLADD UK Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ ‘Conversion Therapy'. In 2022 they received the NHS England LGBTQ+ Health Advisor Award and Attitude magazine's 2023 Pride Award. Transcript Keywords: World Poetry Day UNESCO Medical Education General Medical Council Equality Disability inclusion Medical School LGBTQ+ Conversion therapy Disability community Ableism Reasonable adjustments Equality Act Trauma Joy Resilience Advocacy Policies Documents Produced by: Gabe Abrams and Lisa Meeks Audio editor: Jacob Feeman Digital Media: Katie Sullivan
Richie is joined by Dr. Anne McCloskey. Anne is a remarkable woman. Back in 2020 she was a retired GP with an impeccable 40 year record. She was and remains admired and respected in her community. When Covid hit, Anne volunteered at her local hospital. She was shocked at what she found and began to question the covid narrative. She criticised lockdowns, the treatment of children and the elderly and warned about the dangers associated with mRNA vaccines. She was suspended by the General Medical Council and fought them all the way. On today's show, Anne looks back over the past four years and tells Richie what she has learned. Anne also discusses Ireland's recent referendums and why she's decided to run as a candidate in Ireland's forthcoming local and EU elections. For more on Dr. Anne McCloskey, visit:https://www.facebook.com/DrAnne4Derryhttps://twitter.com/DrAnneDerry
This week follows directly on from Episode 166 Personalised care this time talking about the issue of consent. In this episode I reflect on the introduction of electronic consent in maternity care, scrutinizing its benefits and the unforeseen complexities it introduces. I discuss the General Medical Council's 2020 guidance on consent, spotlighting the critical need for inclusive language and the eradication of personal bias. I consider the need for antenatal education as a bedrock for preparing expectant mothers to navigate the decision-making labyrinth of labour, fostering an environment where every voice is heard and every choice is informed.Together, we're building a more empathetic, patient-centred maternity service. And don't forget, your suggestions drive our discussions forward; reach out via TheObsPod on Twitter, Instagram, or email to share your thoughts on future topics.Want to know more?https://www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents/gmc-guidance-for-doctors---decision-making-and-consent-english_pdf-84191055.pdfhttps://concentric.health/patients/Thank you all for listening, My name is Florence Wilcock I am an NHS doctor working as an obstetrician, specialising in the care of both mother and baby during pregnancy and birth. If you have enjoyed my podcast please do continue to subscribe, rate, review and recommend my podcast on your podcast provider.If you have found my ideas helpful whilst expecting your baby or working in maternity care please spread the word & help theobspod reach other parents or staff who may be interested in exploring all things pregnancy and birth. Keeping my podcast running without ads or sponsorship is important to me. I want to keep it free and accessible to all but it costs me a small amount each month to maintain and keep the episodes live, if you wish to contribute anything to support theobspod please head over to my buy me a coffee page https://bmc.link/theobspodV any donation very gratefully received however small. Its easy to explore my back catalogue of episodes here https://padlet.com/WhoseShoes/TheObsPod I have a wide range of topics that may help you make decisions for yourself and your baby during pregnancy as well as some more reflective episodes on life as a doctor. If you want to get in touch to suggest topics, I love to hear your thoughts and ideas. You can find out more about me on Twitter @FWmaternity & @TheObsPod as well as Instagram @TheObsPod and e...
Is the NHS putting patients at risk by expanding the role of medical professionals who aren't qualified as doctors? Physician Associates have been around in the Health Service for a couple of decades now and there are plans to more than double their numbers in an attempt to plug gaps in the workforce. They don't have a medical degrees and while they must complete a two year training course, there are concerns that physician associates don't meet the ‘gold standard' of a qualified medic.In one tragic case, Emily Chesterton died in 2022 when a physician associate at her GP surgery in London misdiagnosed a fatal blood clot as first a sprain, then anxiety. This week, MP's have been discussing whether to bring Physician Associates and Anaesthetist Associates under the regulation of the General Medical Council.Adrian Goldberg hears from Dr Matt Kneale, co chair of the Doctors Association, a lobbying group which describes itself as 'the voice of frontline doctors'.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by We Bring Audio for Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Most of us will remember role models (good and bad) that have heavily influenced who we are today. Sue Carr tells me that actually everyone of us is a role model to someone, we need to remember that and be aware of the shadow that we cast. Her top tips are to know yourself, and to show up day after and display consistently good values and behaviours such as compassion, listening and generosity.Professor Sue Carr is the Deputy Medical Director of the General Medical Council. She continues to practice as a Consultant Nephrologist in Leicester where she is also an Honorary Professor of Medical Education at University of Leicester. She was previously, Director of Clinical Education and an Associate Medical Director at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust for 9 years and prior to that Associate Postgraduate Dean & Foundation School Director in the East Midlands Deanery. She is a Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Educators. She has previously held several national roles in medical education including as Chair of the UK Renal Association Education and Training committee, member of National Association of Clinical Tutors Council, and she was an elected Councillor of the Royal College of Physicians.Role modelling is important for us all, and GMC's Good Medical Practice document makes specific reference to it. You may also be interested in reading the Caring for Doctors - Caring for Patients report, or look at the King's Fund and Health Foundation's work on compassionate leadership. The Stoneygate Empathy Centre also has a number of publications / courses.
For more than twenty years, Zholia Alemi worked as a psychiatrist for the NHS. She practiced the length and breadth of the country, treating vulnerable patients with dementia, learning disabilities and mental illness. And then she was caught in a lie. Alemi was found guilty of forging a dementia patient's will. But this deception was only the beginning. From Crowd Network, Doctor of Deception investigates how one woman's web of lies reveals historic flaws in the system designed to keep patients safe. If you were treated by Zholia Alemi, or have concerns about her practice, there is a support page available on the General Medical Council's website: https://www.gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive/zholia-alemi---information-for-patients Presenter: Saleyha Ahsan Producer: Louisa Adams Technical Producer: Phill Brown Executive Producer: Samantha Psyk
To be labelled as the UK's "most outrageous" doctor takes some doing. But for Dr Asher Larmie - the self-styled “Fat Doctor” and a transmasculine weight-inclusive GP - his decision to actively court criticism and controversy is all part of his plan to raise awareness and ignite debate to combat weight stigma and promote weight-inclusive care.Indeed, if you follow him on Instagram you'll be fully aware of the many controversial and contrarian positions he takes around nutrition, weight management, diet culture and other divisive issues closely linked to body composition, disease prevention and physical and mental health.Yet, like so much of what you see and hear on social media, should you really take everything at face value?For instance, does Dr Larmie really believe that the food you eat has no impact on whether you gain or lose weight? Does he genuinely think that most people are incapable of losing weight, and even if they do are destined to put it all back on - with more besides - to leave them in bigger and heavier than when they started? And if so, isn't this just because motivation, discipline and adherence drops off after initial weight-loss stalls, rather than a physiological inability of humans to consistently lose weight over the long term?Joe Warner sat down with The Fat Doctor to discover what he really believes about diet, nutrition, body composition, weight and fat stigma, what is just a show for social media, and why he is subject to an on-going General Medical Council investigation into his suitability to practice medicine.And as more and more people discover him and his fat-positive and body-positivity views that being overweight is not inherently unhealthy, we asked him whether he is at all concerned that he might be wrong, and so therefore encouraging followers to give up any aspirations of losing excess body weight which could lead them to an early grave? For the full interview with bonus footage visit https://unfilteredonline.com/britains-most-outrageous-doctor-on-why-he-believes-food-doesnt-make-you-fat/Get in touch in the comments below or talk to us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unfiltered.extraTwitter: https://twitter.com/UnfilteredExtraEmail: editorial@unfilteredonline.com
In this week's TWISH we hear about Trofim Lysenko before we look into the news:EU: Glyphosate updateINTERNATIONAL: Nostalgia in politicsUK: The Good Law Project supports the General Medical Council taking action against harmful misinformationNORTHERN IRELAND: ‘The Hum' is back!Naturopaths selling Miracle Mineral Supplements (MMS) are promoting a life threatening substance with no possible benefit. This came to a class call recently when a toddler coudl have died as a result. We hand out a Really Wrong Award for this completely irresponsible action. In Word of the Week we looking into how to talk about scams and frauds in Finnish.Enjoy!Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Word of the Week; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
About this interview: Dr Jayne Donegan qualified in medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London, in 1983. She no longer practices as a medical doctor as the requirement to put NHS policy before the best interest of the patient is not why she chose medicine as a vocation. Repeated applications to deregister from the General Medical Council were rejected by the Council over a period of four years but eventually, in July 2023, her name was, at last, erased from the register, leaving her free to continue her holistic work without interference. Jayne is a Homeopathic and Naturopathic Practitioner registered with the Homeopathic Medical Association, Homeopathy International and the Association of Naturopathic Practitioners. She is a member of the British Society of Ecological Medicine and a patron of the College of Naturopathic Medicine. In this conversation she talks to me about her career and why she left mainstream medicine. She also tells me why she is delighted to no longer be GMC registered. I found Jayne to be a warm, intelligent, kind, empathic and caring soul. The legacy media would like to make her out to be some crazy witch doctor, but the reality couldn't be further from this. Jayne is everything a good doctor should be, someone who puts the interest and welfare in front of all other considerations. Jayne gives a range of lectures, the most important of which is "Supportive Management of Fevers". It is crucial to adult snd particularly child heath, whether you vaccinate or not and especially if you jave had the covid jab. Other lectures She gives are on the information you need to give informed consent, vaccines fertility and how they are licenced: what constitutes vaccine Science: deep looks at natural immunity regarding meningitis and so on. There will be a FREE lecture on Tuesday 19 December 'David & Goliath - My GMC Story....see what happens when the Government Expert has to produce evidence for his opinion, as opposed to relying on unchallenged sound bites. Details on her website. Links - Website Jayne Donegan Website If you value my podcasts, please support the show so that I can continue to speak up by choosing one or both of the following options - Buy me a coffee If you want to make a one off donation. Join my Substack To access additional content, you can upgrade to paid from just £3.50 a month To sponsor the Doc Malik Podcast contact us at hello@docmalik.com About Doc Malik: Orthopaedic surgeon Ahmad Malik is on a journey of discovery when it comes to health and wellness. Through honest conversations with captivating individuals, Ahmad explores an array of topics that profoundly impact our well-being and health. You can follow us on social media, we are on the following platforms: Twitter Ahmad | Twitter Podcast | Instagram Ahmad | Instagram Podcast
In this episode, Jane talks to Professor Dame Carrie MacEwan. Dame MacEwan started her career as an ophthalmologist and became the president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. She served as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges until 2020 and has become the second woman Chair of the General Medical Council. Jane and Carrie explore how Carrie realised her career ambitions, balancing family and work life, overcoming challenges - including being bullied - and moving into leadership roles. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/medical-women-talking-podcastDate of episode recording: 2023-04-06Duration: 00:24:30Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Professor Dame Jane DacreGuests: Professor Dame Carrie MacEwanProducer: Matt Aucott
In this first episode, Jane is joined by Dame Clare Marx, the first woman to chair the British Orthopaedic Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the General Medical Council. In this particularly poignant episode, Jane and Clare discuss Clare's career, from what it was like to be one of only a few women working in surgery and chart a successful path though that field, to leadership styles and the most important things doctors can do for their patients. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/medical-women-talking-podcastDate of episode recording: 2022-11-17Duration: 00:16:59Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Professor Dame Jane DacreGuests: Dame Clare MarxProducer: Matt Aucott
In this episode we're joined by Charlie Massey, CEO at the General Medical Council. Charlie sits down with our host, Suhail Mirza, to discuss the unprecedented workforce pressure and burnout the medical profession is facing, and the transformation envisaged by the NHS workforce plan.
An important and thought provoking interview with the UK Medical Freedom Alliance's Director of Medical Ethics, Dr Sarah Myhill, who worked for 20 years within the NHS in General Practice and increasingly found herself restricted by what she was and was not allowed to do. An advocate of the first rule for good conduct as declared by the General Medical Council, “To make the care of your patient your first concern”, she has seen many doctors have become “defenders of the faith” as laid down by Big Pharma, who manipulate drug trials in order to give favourable outcomes. As a result, Sarah believes medicine of today no longer follows a logical and independent science base. She has practical advice for the best health, restoring faith in our Doctors and renewing the medical ethics that are sadly lost to us in the current climate.CALL TO ACTION: Please watch and share far and wide to help raise awareness of these important issues.Visit Sarah's website here: https://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Main_PageWatch Sarah speak about her books and ultimate health with Richard Vobes and Ahmad Malik here:https://rumble.com/v2x7hai-richard-vobes-and-dr.-sarah-myhill-on-paleo-ketogenic-diet-and-good-health.htmlhttps://rumble.com/v3i0ap7-how-to-live-to-one-hundred.htmlhttps://rumble.com/v2yavn8-conversation-with-dr-sarah-myhill-about-paelo-ketogenic-diet-and-more.htmlVisit the UK Medical Freedom Alliance at: ukmedfreedom.orgThere you can donate to help us maintain our services, campaigns and this channel.
Show notes and Transcript... Dr David Cartland joins Hearts of Oak once again to discuss his ongoing battles as a wide awake doctor. For over 2 years he has had to fight, not only for his credibility in the NHS but for his continued employment. He shares his ongoing battle with the GMC (General Medical Council) who seek to destroy GP's on the basis of random complaints about their social media posts. In the middle of this skirmish, David finds himself 'persona non grata' and struggles to find locum jobs as a doctor in a country that is in desperate need for medical professionals. We end with Dr Cartland sharing the many stories he hears each day of horrific vaccine injuries. Dr David Cartland (MBChB MRCGP) is a fully qualified doctor and GP. He is also one of the most censored professionals in the UK. Dr Cartland has a 1st class degree in Biomedical science including a year of specialist immunology and microbiology/virology training that included statistical analysis, and it is this area of expertise that has had particular relevance and value in allowing him to professionally assess the mass of government, NHS, MHRA, pharmaceutical and ONS data on Covid-19 and Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Reactions, which has been published since the declaration of the ‘pandemic' in UK. Between his two degrees David worked for a year in the angiogenesis research group at the University of Birmingham and he is a published author in angiogenesis research. At his graduation he recited the Hippocratic oath. Part of this powerful oath is a vow. A vow to ‘Primum non nocere'- first do no harm. After years of training and sacrifice, followed by many happy years in a professional practice as a highly respected doctor, in February 2022 David took the difficult decision to resign as a GP. Follow and support Dr Cartland at the following links.... WEB: https://drcartland.com/ X: https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid?s=20 GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/DrCartland TRUTH: https://truthsocial.com/@drdavidcartland DONATE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/drcartland PEOPLES HEALTH ALLIANCE: https://the-pha.org/ WORLD COUNCIL FOR HEALTH: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/ DOCTORS FOR PATIENTS UK: https://doctorsforpatientsuk.com/ Dr Cartland's original testimony titled ‘Breaking the Silence' can be read here....https://metatron.substack.com/p/breaking-the-silence Interview recorded 19.8.23 Audio Podcast version available on Podbean and all major podcast directories... https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ Transcript available on our Substack...https://heartsofoak.substack.com/ To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with Dr. David Cartland, who's back with us again. And David joins us to discuss his experiences of being investigated over two years now by the General Medical Council, the GMC. It is the regulatory body that investigates doctors' malpractice or failures. And because of initially anonymous reports complaining about a social media profile, he has been investigated. He discusses that process and the GMC have absolute power, they can remove a doctor's ability to practice medicine in the UK. So it is, they are judge and jury, court martial. We also go into how the NHS silences whistle-blowers. He shares some of the stories of his patients that he has seen vaccine injuries and we also discuss his difficulty of simply getting a job as a locum in surgeries. Dr. David Cartland, it's wonderful to have you back with us. Thank you so much for your time today. (Dr David Cartland) No, thanks for having me, Peter. It's always a pleasure to chat. Good to chat. I think last time you were with me is probably our last video at the end of last year. Time flies past, but it's good to have you back. Lots to cover, not only about you but what you see professionally. But if I can @CartlandDavid on Twitter, that's where you can follow David's many pieces of information put out regularly. So if you're not already following him, do. Although, David, you've become quite high profile. Maybe just touch on that and then before we get onto of the GMC stuff and some of the cases you see. But what is it like to be kind of the voice of reason? Because I guess when you go into profession, you're there as part of the system. You put your head down, you do the good that you've been trained to do. It's quite different for you because a lot of doctors now in the media, in the public sphere, are talking about. What has it been like over the last three years? It's really strange because I get a lot of feedback that I've kind of stuck my head above the parapet and I'm brave and I've got balls of steel or whatever they say, but you know I see it as simply my duty to do what I've done. You know I've said this many times, you know, I've stuck my neck on the line but really not because I've spoke out about ethical principles of consent, bodily autonomy, not coercing patients to take medical treatments that they aren't being fully informed about number one, but you know, that we haven't got any safety data for, you know, defending children and pregnant moms, you know, there was never any roll out data for both cohorts. And so that's the two easy wins, I thought I picked, you know, the ethical issues and the pregnancy safety, lack of safety data and the children and vaccine injuries and speaking out about lockdowns and masks and for doing so, you know, the NHS supposedly supports whistle blowing, they call it a learning culture, a no-blame culture, let's talk about these things without any blame until you whistle blow. And then, like I found out, to my detriment in a couple of arenas, really, as soon as you whistle blow about concerns that you've got. Concerns that still to this day remain unanswered. That's the other thing. You could easily shut me off with some data. Very easy to do. Correct my blasphemous views on all of this, just sit me down and show me the error of my ways and hasn't happened for two and a half days. It's been a full two and a half years, should I say. It's been a cancel culture as other people in the arena have found, you know, you look at Andrew Bridgen, all he did was ask questions and asked to take a closer look at the data. You look at footballers, Matt Le Tissier, you know, speaking out and saying, look, we need to look at this, footballers are collapsing left, right and centre, let's stop, let's investigate this. Similar to me, I'm just saying like this isn't ethically right, this isn't safe, we're not following evidence-based practice here, but yeah to somehow out of all of this become, I googled myself the other day because I said a third's really let me go because they said they'd googled me, so I thought let's. Have five minutes and see what you can come up with when you google Dave Cartland. One thing that comes up is internet personality, so that's the surrealness of where we are at the moment in that for somehow doing the job, following my Hippocratic oath, following principles of safety evidence based practice and ethics and these are all GMC guidance's as well you know I keep reminding on Twitter my fellow colleagues of the guides the guidelines that we have you know about the duty of candour whistleblowing ethics you know making sure you know we're gaining informed consent these are all enshrined in the GMC and as we'll talk about later on in the discussion the GMC they've got some slightly double standards when it comes to who to go after. I guess there was some point where it went from criticism within the profession, so disagreements with fellow doctors, fellow professionals, to a, more bigger investigation and checking up. I mean how did that step change come? Yeah, where to start with that? So yeah, I mean, it has been kind of, it started off as kind of anonymous reporting. So the first I ever heard of the GMC, being involved in me was, I found it in my junk email box from my NHS mail account, saying that there'd been some sort of hearing about me about spreading COVID misinformation, and that a decision had been made that there was no case to answer for. This was in April, I think, 2021, it goes all the way back to that. That was without your input, you just... So that was without my knowledge, my input, but even though they found there was no case to answer, they escalated it to NHS Performance Advisory Committee. And so you'll see on Twitter, I posted a reflective piece they asked me to do at that point to explain how I got to my position. I actually got to present to the GMC at the time as well, not the GMC, NHS PAG committee and their six doctors. I had the floor for about an hour, went through data, my concerns, and with specific reference to the reflective piece that I posted. And, you know, at the very end, I just said to them, any comment, any information on what, you know, any rebuttal to what I presented? And they just said, look, we're not here to discuss the content of your views on COVID. We're here to discuss, and it was a really strange comment they made. They said, we're here to discuss your mental health, your fitness to practice, and your fitness for purpose. I always remember that comment, fitness for purpose. And it kind of all fizzled out after that. They closed the case, and then pretty much, you know, every month or two, I'd get a dumping from the GMC saying we've had these 15, mostly anonymous complaints from various characters, either from Twitter or ex-colleagues I used to work with saying, we've had these 15, 20 complaints just to let you know, FYI, this is the content that's sending you the redacted complaints. And you'd just been told that you were getting this flurry of complaints about COVID misinformation, conspiracy theories, and all the rest of it. And some of them are quite comical. I was called a dangerous individual, I've been called Harold Shipman 2023. And all the rest of it and so you know they were throwing them out which is good but then it kind of got a little bit more nefarious in that you know, firstly the council culture in my own community, so I've been you know, I've been I moved down to Cornwall for the work life balance, I didn't wake up one morning and say I tell you what I'm going to be a crazy anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist and commit career suicide. I said what I saw I had genuinely held and still unrebutted concerns as previously mentioned on safety ethics and an evidence-based medicine and not being followed. And for that, I've received a cancellation, blacklisting. I've applied recently for, in Cornwall, we've got a lack of doctors. We've got a massive issue with GPs in particular. I'm an ED-trained GP, so I'm kind of dual-trained, and I teach medical students. I've got background in science. I'm a published scientist, did a degree with quite heavy weighting in immunology. And we've got somewhere around 25 jobs out there all the time, consistently. Whenever you look at the website advertising for GP jobs, there's always 25 jobs. So I applied for 25 jobs about six, seven months ago, and I got three responses. The rest just ignored me. Their jobs are still being advertised, by the way. And the three letters that I got back were essentially we don't employ anti-vaxxers or your views on vaccines don't align with the ethos of our vaccine centre, for example. So it started off like that. And even now, I mean, I've been let go from locum surgeries now because I retweeted an Andrew Tate video six months ago. That's a genuine example of why I've just been let go from three weeks worth of work, you know, and I didn't really know who Andrew Tate was. If I'm honest, I must've just seen something on Twitter, retweeted it without doing a full, you know, biography check on the person. And then that was enough cause for the GP surgery to let me go. And that was actually a surgery that had massively positive feedback from the work that I'd done. And then the other surgeries then, you know, putting the phone down on agencies they mentioned the name Dr Cartland, literally putting the phone down on them saying and then the agency would get back to them and say was that technically correct. Was that a technical issue with the line? I said, no, no, no. You mean Dr. David Cartland from Cornwall? Oh, no, no, we don't employ anti-vaxxers at our surgery. We'd rather not employ a doctor. We would rather have no doctor than have him. And there's been several examples across the last six months where surgeries have gone without a medic for a whole day than have me, who's offered my services to them. And I've got email confirmation of that. So it started off a little bit like that, cancellation in my locality. I mean, cancellation by the village that I live in, the town I live in. Literally bizarre because as you mentioned earlier you know outside of Cornwall, I'm quite, there's a profile there you know people know who I am people recognize me but not in my home village they think I'm a leper and they treat me like a leper so very odd and then the GMC stuff started a bit more insidiously then with with the usual suspects on Twitter.. So okay tell us what the GMC the General Medical Council there'll be many watching not in the UK so what exactly is that body what does it do? So the GMC are there, General Medical Council are there to kind of oversee doctors conduct, doctors you know any issues around their abilities practice safely, you know so clinical negligence etc so they've got kind of lots of overreach into into what doctors do but I mean the way you complain about a doctor is you can literally go on to an online page completely you can say anything you want and I've seen this in action, like literally you can say, Dr. Cartland tweeted this. And this was what a lot of the complaints were that I was getting. It was about social media activity. But I did come across, you know, I had the devil in me at some point in the past, about seven or eight months ago. And I decided to do a sort of feature on Twitter where I went into some of the TV doctors. And I thought, I'm going to out some of the outrageous statements that Van Tam, Chris Whitty, Matt Hancock. I did a week of going after the politicians and just quoted what they said in their own press conferences and, you know, the next slide, please, conferences that they were doing. And then I moved on to the TV doctors. And I went to Dr. Ranj, Dr. Amir Khan, Dr. Sarah Kayat, Dr. Hilary Jones, and I basically published the biggest whoppers that they'd ever told, you know, like, Dr. Ranj said, you know, take one COVID-19 vaccine, and you're 100%, 100%, it's always 100% safe and effective of avoiding hospital or going, becoming unwell, or dying of COVID-19. That's what he said, or worse. And I just posted it. And that's been taken now by the GMC to be examples of my bullying. The charges against me at the moment are bullying, incitement of hatred to fellow professionals, and online harassment. So they've tried the misinformation, they've tried the mental health, they've tried the conspiracy theories on professional behaviour, social media guidance, and now they've moved on to what can only be described as a coordinated complaint. I've got evidence of all the complainants collaborating together in chat rooms, and making this an effort to get me struck off. So as we stand today, you know, I've been all of the complainants, for example, have been given the chance to give an oral statement against me. You know, Dr. Ranj gave a 110 page victim statement in inverted commas. And it was like reading a fantasy novel. Honestly, I've read it, it's an embarrassment really to the GMC, but they've took it seriously on the lines of bullying and harassment. And what have I done? I've posted 'This Morning' interview where he made outrageous claims that misled a lot of people, you know, nothing's 100% RSA, you know, this cup of tea, it's not 100% safe, I could choke on it, I could drop the cup on my foot, I could drop, you know, the hot liquid on my crotch, you know, and it's not, it's not 100% safe, is it? So all of these doctors made the claim of 100% safety. One particular complainant said it was 100% safe to vaccinate pregnant women, and then went on to say that the vaccine reduced miscarriage rates, and then went on to equally tell a whopper around what technology was used in the vaccine, saying it was identical to the influenza vaccine, without naming names for this particular doctor. But, you know, they've been able to formulate that my retweet of, you know, their false claims has been labelled as, what did they say in the one complaint, I've set my anti-vax mob upon them, and, you know, they're all playing the mental health card now, saying that because of Dr Cartland, they're suffering with their mental health and anxiety and all the rest of it playing the victim beautifully. Very strange goings on and to me I mean it's a big overreach really GMC are they there to comment on my twitter feed? you know that's what it seems to have come down to. But well, what is the the process do you get an email or letter through to say you need to appear in front of somewhere, just being told you're under investigation and you said you were before them so what input do you have with that? That's a really good question, so in all in all of this you get kind of, you get I'm infamous at GMC now so I've got my own complaints member of staff so I've been allocated my own member of staff for the inundation that they've had. But essentially that person will then update me on the process. And the process has been the three complainants have been given the oral witness statements. And they've gone to town on me really and dug back into my timeline. There's clear collaboration between them. Meaning one particular complaint, the GMC have actually helped the complainant go through my Twitter feed and look at interviews to look for examples of alleged transphobia. So there was a period about three months ago where I went in heavy on the strange things that we're seeing in the sexualization of children, sex trafficking. There's the drag queen story hour that we've had in Cornwall. Some of the videos I'm seeing online about inappropriate things going on in front of children. People clad in gimp suits with kids stroking them. You've probably seen the images. Men clad with sex toys all over them, multi-coloured sex toys, making a complete fool of themselves really in front of children. And calling that out, and again, charge number eight on the GMC charge list is I've showed hostility towards the LGBTQ community. I've had lots of input from LGBTQ people, show me a lot of support, actually, because they're fed up of it. They're fed up of this kind of leaning into the agenda and the overreach of it, this minor attracted persons, the, we need to start having sympathy for paedophilia, we need to start looking deep into the psychology, normalizing it and then going off on things like, you know, in schools now we've got kids in our locality identifying as cats. I mean, how on earth have we ended up with that? You know, when we've got people being referred off a puberty blockade at the age of 12 and genital mutilation, that to the GMC there is evidence of my hostility towards LGBTQ and they're jumping on anything at the moment. Clearly I've got a target on my head. So none of it has to do necessarily with your medical understanding or ability or giving someone the wrong drugs. It's simply your views, what's in your head. And it's strange how a tweet can affect how you actually carry out, listen to a patient diagnosing them. It's, their opposites. They're saying it just affects confidence in the profession, so another colleague, I won't mention the name at the moment, is having a case reopened for bringing the profession into disrepute. Affecting public confidence with their conspiracy theories in inverted commas. But I mean, I'll tell you what's happened, just to finish off what I meant to say just about the GMC proceedings. So all three complainants got the chance of an oral statement. They've been either to the building in GMC HQ or they've given a Zoom, you know, face-to-face. I've not been afforded that privilege so basically what they've done is clumped all three complaints together into about 600 pages of evidence and I mean the evidence is pathetic, simple as that it's not it wouldn't you know if it was a murder case it would be thrown out, you know it's absolutely embarrassing but all the way through this I've got a clear evidence of all three complainants colluding, inciting against me, getting people to and they've done it for other doctors like Aseem Malhotra, please report this doctor to the GMC, well that's incitement isn't it. And I've got evidence of this. In fact, one of the complainants has been, is a very notorious chap on Twitter. Again, I can't name his name, but a notorious bully, troll, spreader of misinformation. And this guy has been bullying me for two years and has had the audacity to accuse me of bullying. I said to the GMC, I've got pages and pages of information where he's called me Harold Shipman or he's had me arrested or I've been struck off. I'm dangerous, I'm dodgy, I'm unsafe to practice, I'm a liar. I've got all of these screenshots. He's even questioned my mental health, publicly saying I should be sectioned, I'm mentally unstable. He's been speaking to my family and they're all increasingly concerned about my mental health. I've got all this, but can you show it to the GMC? Do they want to see it? No, they don't. not letting me give, you know, get beyond the administrative system to speak to a decision maker. So it's been very much guilty till proven innocent and they backed that up by, about a month ago, they demanded of me my full, you know, who I work for as a locum, what surgeries, which hospitals I work in and they wanted me to go back six months to name what surgeries I work at and the reason for that was they wanted to send out a letter before I've even had a chance to give evidence to say Dr. Cartland has been accused by some high profile TV doctors of bullying, harassment and online incitement and that's gone out to every surgery that I've either worked for or currently worked for and I absolutely begged them not to do that. I said look, this is clearly a guilty till proven innocent approach to the situation, please let me at least give my chance of defending myself. I mean to be fair to them, they've been clear in the letter that, you know there is no fitness to practice hearing here and it's not, you know, they haven't even made a decision on that they're just collating so what's the point of sending the letter. I said to them this is only going to give me financial and reputational damage, they still sent it and since then the three surgeries have not offered me a single locum shift, so as predicted they want to wait till the investigation's over and that's natural of course, why would you want to employ a doctor by choice that, you know, it's hard enough for me to get a surgery to take me for half a day when they're absolutely desperate, you know, it's it's such a waste but can't explain that. Guilty to all, even innocent. How long has the process with the GMC, how long has that been going on for and how long does it, is there a fixed time period, can they keep it open for indefinitely, what's the process? Yeah that's a great question as well, I don't know, I've not been very transparent through the whole time, it's been, I've been dangled by a piece of string since like I say April two years ago, with various different, you know, aspects, like I say I first found out about investigation from a junk email. It's just the communication has been terrible as well. They've not kept me up to date really. They keep telling me they dropped a lot of the charges against me without informing me that they dropped a lot of charges against me. What GMC like to do as well is they send you emails that are quite anxiety inducing about five to five in the evening, and they're all knocking off at five o'clock. So even in that approach it's like well. There's method in that, they're doing that on purpose, you know, to send an email at 10 to 5 with, you know, this is the witness statement for Dr. X and then you're going into the weekend and you can't fight your corner and, you know, all they've done along in terms of pastoral care, you know, at the end of the day this is very stressful, you know, I'm going into the next month not knowing if I'm going to be in front of a fitness to practice hearing for the crimes of promoting evidence-based practice ethics and safety. And I don't know where my next pay check's coming from. It's just, it's bizarre. And all they've done is they've given me a Samaritan's number and to contact the BMA 24-hour helpline, completely separate to them. There's been no pastoral support. In fact, there's been no pastoral support at all. I've tried all through the last year to reach out. It's hard enough to do that as a doctor, reaching out to other doctors, and I've ended up passed from pillar to post. No one can offer me any support, any help. I even went to my own GP at a time when I was having a lot of stress, I wasn't sleeping. GP essentially, in a nutshell, signed me off work for six months with stress and depression. Sent me bucket loads of antidepressants, sleeping tablets and anxiolytics and then zero point during that, I've still got the boxes by the way, I never used them, but the point I was trying to make is not one single doctor or nurse spoke to me in that six months and assessed me and gave me copious amounts of drugs during that time and signed me up and made a diagnosis actually based upon e-consults, which is what doctors are doing now. They're not even seeing patients to this day. They're still doing telephone consults, you know, triaging everything out, you know, only seeing on the day emergencies and this is what's contributing in a way to some, only a small amount of the excess mortality that we see and they're just not seeing patients hence, not diagnosing or processing and doing their job, still hiding behind the COVID. I worked at a surgery a few weeks ago and the doctors are all still masked up. They've got two, three masks on some of them, gloves on, aprons on, visors, they change between every patient and they've had five or six jabs at each of these doctors. So we've created this bizarre kind of germ OCD phobia kind of mentality. I can't explain it. It is. Maybe four months ago, five months ago, I went to the hospital with one of my kids and I went in and the doctor said, I'm sorry, you'll obviously need to wear a mask. I said, I'm exempt. He goes, no, no, no, you can't be exempt. I said, yes, I'm exempt, I can show you, the government. And he goes, oh well, it's too dangerous. If you refuse to wear a mask, we'll have to have the consultation in the corridor. So we moved out of his room and we were in the corridor of a busy hospital and he carried out the consultation in the corridor, because the corridor was safe, but his room was not. And I thought, you don't even argue when you're with children, you just... And this is in 2023, Peter, isn't it? The insanity continues and now we've got the old... Eris, is it? Eris, the variant, and they're trying to stoking up the fear porn. The goddess of destruction, they've named this one after all, chaos or something like that. So they're really working on getting the anxiety levels up and people will fall for it. The doctors have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker. Absolutely easy meat it's been to con the doctors. I mean, how to explain what happens to you there? You know, you've been taken out to a corridor. It's just insane. You know, if you see a doctor in a mask, I would go and ask to see another doctor. I'd go so far as to say that, you know, It's an instant IQ assessment for me. The data's out there about damage. Not only is it pointless, I keep trying to explain, you've got eyes as well. If you sneeze into somebody's eyes, you still can contract. So unless you've got goggles on. Doesn't matter what you wear on your face. There are studies that show it's dangerous to your blood gas. You can become hypercapnic, hypoxic. Quite swiftly, I have to put in one arm. Spoke to a lady at my son's optician appointment last week, and you could see she was struggling to breathe. You're speaking and she's and you can see it bellowing out and just like you don't need to put that on, it doesn't work, but her excuse to me was it just makes the older patients feel safer, but it's fraud isn't it, it doesn't it doesn't do what it says on the tin but that's just a small cog in this deception isn't it. One last question on the GMC and then maybe touching some of the cases you have seen what powers do the GMC have? They've got the power to end your career, literally, so that's where we are with my particular cases, that they're going to, two people get to decide, one's a lay person and I don't get to speak to these people. I've got the opportunity to write a written rebuttal and they turn the sand timer off 14 days ago so I've left it for a few days and I've got 14 more days to respond and then that goes to a decision maker which is a doctor, a lay person to decide is it fitness to practice or not and that's where the fun begins if it is a fitness to practice and in a kind of dark way. I hope they do because I hope to air my facts and figures to them in public and I think this is the reason they haven't taken some of the higher profile doctors to fitness to practice because it goes on public record. We come out with all of our data, we talk about excess mortality, we talk about our clinical experiences and it all comes out in the open and I don't think they want that. That's why they go for things like bullying and online harassment and breaking the social media guidance or there's a new guidance come out on LGBTQ+ now, all you need to do is offend, that's the measure now you have to leave your faith for example at the door and if the level of being able to report the doctor to the GMC is just merely offending somebody with your view and again at that fitness to practice that literally is what it says on the tin, are you fit to practice or not and we see it now in some of the cases of people being struck off, it's very nefarious, people are, and it's not based on safety, it doesn't seem to be harming patients that brings about the charges are being struck off anymore it can be what you're offending somebody or you know your twitter feed or retweeting an Andrew Tate video for example, it's just bizarre I mean what what jurisdiction should the GMC have over my private, where's that private, public social media. I've got freedom of speech, you know, I'm a lot of these views and they're quite you know within their rights to debate me but I'm two and a half years in now, not a single doctor, no one from the LMC, no one from the GMC, no one from the NHS, the chief medical officer runs away from me down here, the MP runs away from me down here. No one wants to have the conversation and so we all know what that is. But it's just so dark, isn't it, that, you know, a good doctor here is not able to work in one of the most under doctored areas of the NHS. And, you know, it's only patients that suffer. It's not me. I'm doing okay with my private work, you know, so, you know, it's one of those. Well, actually, let's touch on that, the private work side on your website. Let people know what they can find because this is, I think, a way forward and what you're offering is essential and exciting that's happening, it's sad to see it has to happen. But tell us what people, is it people in the local area that they can basically connect with you and have a diagnosis? Yeah, so the service has been set up with a deliberate eye on what the GMC have been up to. So I've kind of called it a kind of off-grid, off-matrix kind of medical experience. So I don't know anyone else who's doing it, really. So it's kind of novel in its approach. So I've had to be careful what I call it. Obviously, I am a GP, I'm a doctor, so I'm allowed to use those titles. But I've had to kind of draw a line as to what needs to be regulated and what I can do in an unregulated fashion. So for example, if I prescribe a drug, that needs to be regulated. You need a GMC license to practice, CQC registration. Now, if I keep patient notes, I need GDPR regulation. So I've had to pitch it, the model, at where I can be unregulated, like a life coach, for example. So I call what I do health coaching. I call it clinical navigation, clinical signposting. I call it health advocacy. And that's what I do. I'm a voice of reason. I'm a medically trained person, ex-scientist, that is there for patients to come to and listen. One of the key things I get is as to why people book in with me is, A, that they trust me for standing up against all of this this nonsense, so it's a trust issue and that trust has been lost. These people you're never gonna trust doctors ever again. And they come to me because they value my opinion and I listen. It's a simple case of having an hour, you know, I charge in a very ethical price, you know, it's far below what, you know, the standards for a private GP appointment would be. It's a quarter of that. And I sit with the patient for an hour and I listen and I take the history. And even this very morning, I had three cases of vaccine injured patients that just, they were quite emotional, really, both the two younger girls, because they just got heard. They were listened to and acknowledged instead of being gas lit and told it was all in their head and there was absolutely no chance of that. But going back to the service, it's growing month on month. It's going really well. I work from this office. I work every morning seven days a week, 363 days a year. So accessibility is there. You get the same doctor twice. You actually get a doctor, which is a bonus. In general practice, if you actually get a doctor, you've struck gold, haven't you? So they're the USPs really, and you'll get an honest opinion. Sometimes I do have to direct people back into the NHS to take our blood tests, for example. But that's what I'm there for. I'm a health advocate. And so like one of the patients this morning, I've written what I call a kick the doctor up the backside letter to get the doctor to do some basic investigations with a girl that's been having chest pain and palpitations within a week of the vaccine. And they haven't even done an ECG. They've done their blood tests. a referral for 24-hour ECG monitoring. They've not done a referral for an echocardiogram. Just basics. You know, we're seeing a lot of clinical and criminal negligence now in the patients that I see, particularly from the vaccine injury community. So that's what you get in a nutshell. So yeah, go to drcartland.com and have a peek. Tell us more about what you're seeing because I'm assuming that you may see people that have gone to their doctor, nothing's happening, the doctor refuses to even consider this could be vaccine injury and therefore they come across you and speak to you. But tell us kind of how that's worked and what are some of the stories that you've heard from patients? Yeah so the stories are quite classic actually. So what I would say from the outset is I've not spoke to a vaccine injured patient that has got the same story. So there's different kind of severities of symptoms, there's different timelines, there's some are immediate, some are sort of medium term, some are slightly longer term. But the one thing that's really consistent with these patients is that temporal relationship to the vaccine. They're in good health, the two patients this morning. In good health, fit and healthy. One was an 18 year old and within two days of having the vaccine and the second patient was within two weeks having some heart pain, chest discomfort. They then venture off to their doctor and every case is the same. The doctor will immediately, as soon as the patient mentions the vaccine word, that's it. It's almost like crucifix comes out at that point. The room changes, the mood changes, the aggression levels of the doctor change and they dismiss the patient with immediate effect and just say, look, this is absolutely 100% nothing to do with the vaccine whatsoever. But these are the same doctors, if you remember, that had, you know, they were putting down COVID-19 for every death. You know, you can have a positive test and get struck by lightning the day after. And they put COVID-19 as a death certificate, they'll put in COVID-19 as 1A when people have died of cancer. And it was quite extraordinary. But what they're telling these people is, either it's in their head, the amount of people who've got bizarre symptoms, and some people have got some really eclectic, strange, medically unexplainable symptoms. So they come and they've got a bit of this and a bit of that, and it doesn't fit into a conventional diagnosis or criteria to diagnose things like MS, for example. They get brain fog with numb left arm with weakness of the right calf and incontinence of urine, for example. That doesn't fit into any conventional neurological diagnosis. I'm hearing of cases where neurologists are seeing the patients. Telling them it's absolutely not 100% nothing to do with the vaccine. They're not even touching the patient with a tendon hammer. They're not examining them and just dismissing them as functional neurological disorder, aka they're making it up. It's in their head, despite you know, coming on two days after the vaccine. The latest thing I'm hearing is they're telling vaccine injury patients that it's from long COVID, everything's long COVID. So these doctors who deny a day after the vaccine, somebody, you know, going into fits, is anything to do with the vaccine, are the same doctors who were saying, oh, actually, the latest one is even more dark, asymptomatic long COVID. So I'll give you a real life example of a 31 year old who I saw about a month ago at surgery, who had two AstraZeneca's. After each AstraZeneca, she had a blood clot on her leg, one on each leg. Then they went on to booster with a Moderna in December this year, just gone. And this was a 31 year old girl. She had a mini stroke a week later and then she had a full-blown stroke. And when she had to have surgery, a bilateral stroke, blood clots on the brain. And she was told, and I saw this in the neurological letters, that she'd been, this was from an asymptomatic COVID-19, long COVID infection, that had caused a stroke and this was all within a month of a Moderna booster. Absolutely incredible and then, you know, I tell patients, you know, it's highly likely but the issue we've got here is really that we can't ever prove it. There isn't really a way of absolutely proving it. We're looking at ways of really nailing this correlation, causation thing now. So there is a way of finding out antibodies, if you've got antibodies, for example, to nucleocapsid protein and the S-protein, and if you've got both, then there's an equal argument that it could have been the COVID infection. But what we have got now is patients that are just measuring for antibodies for the S-protein, which is a spike protein, and not the nucleocapsid protein. So that completely knocks out the possibility that it can be long COVID-related, because there's no evidence of the nucleocapsid protein. So we need to find that test that really is that eureka moment in helping these patients. And a lot of work I do is around spike protein detox. And we're all, whether you believe in shedding or not, that's up for discussion, but we really need to get detoxifying our bodies and I've really turned myself around in the last eight or nine weeks because I've been vaccinated as you know, and it's really messed with me, it's messing my cognition, my memory, lots of brain fogs, lots of mental fatigue, obviously there's a lot of confounders here about all the stress going on, but at the same time, I felt like I was going into dementia at 41 years of age and really turned it around. So anyone who's got any concerns about spike protein, obviously not just me, don't just contact me. I'm not just selling my service. There are lots of protocols out there now from World Council for Health, People's Health Alliance. You've got the FLCCC, I Recover Protocol. My protocol is publicly available on Twitter for free. It's all about detoxification of the spike protein. That's the pathology here. And that's common across the board. It really was a flawed thing to do, get the body to produce this non-human spike protein through the mRNA. Surprise, surprise, it's causing autoimmunity, it's causing cancers, it's causing inflammation in the body, it's causing immune system destruction, it's causing micro-plotting, endothelial dysfunction. It really is poisonous stuff. So yeah, anyone who's had a jab needs to look at, for themselves and for their relatives and loved ones, what we can to get rid of the spike protein. Lots of literature out there. Yeah, PHA, certainly World Health Alliance, fantastic work. So what you're basically pointing out is they are providing solutions. Absolutely, yeah. And these are grassroots organizations picking up momentum with each passing month. Both of the aforementioned, they're grassroots, they're run by people that give a lot of time for free to help set up an alternative to the NHS. And, you know, honesty is at the centre of it all, you know, being open, being honest, and not for profit. None of these people are here to make money. They're here to provide a service. And if you go, for example, to the PHA website, you'll see that there's a whole directory of people that can help. It's not just the NHS. It's not, you don't have to go with the Stockholm syndrome, of going through the primary care system and being gaslit, you know, go contact people. There's directories of people that are, Naturopathic is the best way to put it. It doesn't have to be drugs. My own protocol's got one medicine on there, the rest is all plant-based. Anti-inflammatories, supplements, things like that. Things like keto diets, paleo-ketogenic diet, carnivore diets, that can really help get your body detoxed from anything from spike protein to heavy metals and all the crap that's in our food. We're toxic people now because it's everywhere. It's in the food chain, it's in the water, it's in the sky. So we're getting, you need to detox. 100%. Can I just ask you about doctors, whenever a patient goes to a doctor, are doctors kind of given information they go by, or is it purely in their head? Because obviously when someone comes in they refuse to accept it's vaccine harm. Is that simply because they're in, I guess, in some ways the pocket of the pharma industry, or because they just are too busy, they haven't looked, or because they're following guidance from elsewhere? A bit of everything, really. I think when I do get to chat to it, and I do all the time, I get told not to talk about COVID in surgeries. I make it my business to enlighten the staff that are vaccinating people. So I worked in a room last week with a lady who was jabbing pregnant moms and kids with the COVID vaccine, so she was enlightened by me. So what I would say is the combination of doctors have got egos, number one, egos and God complexity, thinking they are the powers that be. Number two, they're complicit. They've been putting these jabs into people's arms. What's more concerning is people who've been jabbing through the last two and a half years don't even know that it's a novel technology. You completely lose them when you talk about gene therapy and immunomodulatory therapy. MRNA, a paramedic last week said, what's MRNA? And she'd been jabbing it into people's arms for the last two and a half years. And really that's not acceptable. The only defence I do have, and again, I've been dabbling a little bit back into the NHS the last few months, is that your just run ragged. You start your day at eight o'clock, you finish at six. Your halftime break's a home visit, where you're driving around, particularly in Cornwall, like there's quite distance the homes are from the surgery. And so you're driving with your sandwich in your mouth and your crisps while you're driving around, and you get back and you start again. It's like eat, sleep, repeat, and you don't have time. That's my only slight defence is that you run ragged and I think deliberately so. So doctors just haven't got the energy. You know, those days I did a few weeks ago, I haven't got time to get up and read the Lancet Journal or the evidence data for excess mortality. And it's not a good enough excuse, but you know, it's a factor in the equation that needs to be considered, that people are run ragged. And hence they don't know the Pfizer data, you know, the Pfizer documents that I've read cover to cover. These people haven't even heard of the Pfizer documents because they're that frazzled at the end of the day. And then the money, you know, it's been a big money maker for the whole of primary care hospitals. You know, they've cleared their debts from all of this. So I'll never understand why doctors aren't putting two and two together when you've got somebody that in a very short timeframe after a novel gene therapy, you know, has developed X, Y, and Z symptoms and how it can't be in the differential diagnosis at the least, that's just clinical negligence. You know, it's, this whole denial of the timeframe, you know, these well healthy young people. I've had some harrowing stories in the last few months of people that have lost legs, lost the use of the legs, you know, becoming incontinent, transverse myelitis, MS cases, turbo cancers, blood clots at the age of 18, all in proximity to the vaccine. All of them have one thing in common, it's absolutely nothing to do with the vaccine, according to their medical professional. It's just not good enough because we have to start helping these people. One thing's for sure, I've never jabbed a single individual. I've not given an mRNA jab to a single human, but I'm the only one seeming, along with a small pocket of UK doctors, trying to find answers and solutions. And we work day and night, and we're the bad boys of the profession, working day and night, often for nothing, to try and find solutions to what will be looked back on as the biggest crime against humanity. Of that, I'm certain. 100% agree with you. Dr David Cartland, I really appreciate you coming on, giving us an update on what's happening with you and what you're seeing as a professional. I'm assuming the best place is on your Twitter. They can follow what's happening with the GMC and whenever you're coming, as you're going through that process, you'll keep your followers up to date on @CartlandDavid. That's the one. There are a few imposters, nice to be popular, but if you type in David Cartland into Twitter, you'll see there's about 25 versions of me, but that, you've got the twitter tag right there on the screen, so look out for the imposters because they are asking people for money personal details and you try to report to twitter to stop them but no, if they put parody in their profile they're allowed to say what they want, it's incredible, the amount of bullying I've had Peter is just, it's incredible, and yet I'm in the dock for being a bully, it's so bittersweet really to accept. Hmm, no completely. Well yeah, @CartlandDavid, make sure and get it right. Nowhere else but there. David, thank you so much for your time today. No, thanks for having me. It's always good to share what I'm seeing.
In our final episode of this season, we're going quantitative, with the newly released data on how trainees in the UK are faring. Each year the UK's General Medical Council, the doctor's regulator, surveys trainees in the NHS to ask them questions about stress and burnout, harassment and discrimination, and how well supported they feel in their training. They also ask trainers about the same things. Unsurprisingly, the year the results look bad - with increasing levels of burnout across the board, but particularly in new trainees. At the same time trainers are feeling unable to use their time supporting learning, and instead are propping up the system. To discuss this, Clara Munro and Ayisha Ashmore are joined by Colin Melville, medical director, and director of education and standards, at the GMC. All the data discussed, and the interactive tool that Colin mentions, are available on the GMC's National training survey 2023 results page.
Alice looks into the supposed health benefits of mouth taping, and Marsh dives into the career of the controversial cardiologist, and critic of mRNA vaccines, Aseem Malhotra.Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.For more information about the petition demanding action from the General Medical Council against Dr Malhotra, visit https://goodlawproject.org/petition/the-gmc-must-take-a-stand-against-doctors-who-spread-false-and-misleading-information-about-vaccines/To help support the judicial review, you can donate at https://actions.goodlawproject.org/gmc_crowdfunder
Richie is joined by Dr. Jayne Donegan. If you heard Jayne on the show previously, you'll know that in 2019 she was stalked by undercover reporters who reported her to the General Medical Council for sharing "problematic" views on vaccination. A tribunal was convened. Jayne refused to participate in the hearing. She repeatedly requested that she be taken off the register. The GMC refused. They were determined to subject her to a hearing. The tribunal has concluded with the recommendation that Jayne be struck. Jayne told The Telegraph today that she is delighted that she will finally be removed from the register. She discusses this and more with Richie. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/dr-jayne-lm-donegan-30030351200www.jayne-donegan.co.uk
Series ThreeThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Tom Johnson, MD at the consumer insights and futures consultancy, Trajectory. He's a researcher, trends analyser and forecaster with a mass of experience leading complex insight and foresight projects for clients including Vodafone, British Council, Department for International Trade, General Medical Council, McCann and many more. Trajectory help clients understand how customers, markets and the world around them is changing - and how they can benefit from that change. Trajectory's proprietary international data - Global Foresight - draws on 100,000 consumer interviews and has been running for a decade. Their monthly 'Optimism Index' monitor tracks consumer sentiment in the UK each month, gaining viewpoints from 1500 adults re: issues such as confidence, personal choice & control, social trust, opportunities in tech, optimism and their place in the world. We discuss all of the above and more, so I hope you enjoy the conversation!
Richie is joined by Dr. Jayne Donegan and Dr. Gerry Waters.The General Medical Council has accused Dr. Jayne Donegan of misconduct. Her tribunal opened today. Jayne stands accused of spreading vaccine misinformation and dishonesty. There isn't a shred of evidence to support the charges. Why is the GMC really pursuing Jayne? The truth is shocking. Do not miss this conversation. www.jayne-donegan.co.ukDr. Gerry Waters was a GP for 40 years. He was suspended by Ireland's medical authority for putting the safety of his patients first. He didn't enforce mask wearing at his surgery. He told his patients that he couldn't administer them with a covid mRNA jab. Gerry is a hero. These days, he travels Ireland delivering informative and entertaining talks. Follow Gerry here:https://twitter.com/OTURISK
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (the Academy) is the membership body for the UK and Ireland's 24 medical royal colleges and faculties. It sets the standards for the way doctors are educated, trained and monitored throughout their careers. The Academy also plays a leading role in clinical quality, public health and works closely with organisations such as the NHS, the General Medical Council and patient groups on projects designed to improve the quality of care. I was lucky enough to speak to Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard, who is currently the Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and previous Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners. I spoke with Helen all about physician associates, and how the Royal Colleges might support the development of the profession in the future. We also touch on a range of other subjects, including the use of social media for professionals. You can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUKInstagram - @PApodcastUK --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/physician-associate/message
I am truly honoured to have Dr. Sam White on the podcast today. Dr. Sam was a doctor for 18 years and a GP for 10 years, and he decided in 2021 that he had to stand up to what was going on in the world. He's on The Wellness Way to talk about his views on the medical profession, free speech, and where he thinks our healthcare system is going wrong. KEY TAKEAWAYSDr Sam had a lot of questions that weren't making sense for him, and he decided to make a video that went viral around the world explaining his concerns. The NHS then called to tell him that he was suspended with immediate effects due to concerns over his social media and concerns over his mental health and that he needed help urgently.Once they realised that Sam recorded that conversation of him being told that he was crazy by someone very senior in the NHS. They just handed it over to the Gestapo of the General Medical Council who've been doing these things for years trying to discredit people.A PCR test it's not a standalone medical diagnostic tool. It never should be and was never invented for that purpose.Root cause analysis is a very good and very useful way of thinking about treating a patient. So we don't think necessarily in terms of a diagnosis, you need to be thinking what has caused that? Find out what's going on, what's caused this problem.On the day Sam won his high court case for free speech, he was taken down from social media. BEST MOMENTS ‘I think we're going through a great awakening period in, in recent times after what's happened in the last few years'‘Carbohydrates spread and everything just becomes sugar in the body'‘Let's start asking the right questions'‘This is about building the world we want' EPISODE RESOURCES@IamDrSamWhitedrsamwhite.comPhilly on TikTokPhilly on Instagramwww.phillyjlay.com ABOUT THE GUEST “Dr Sam Graduated from Cardiff University with a degree in medicine in 2004. He is a UK based GP focused on Functional Medicine. He is a member of The International Lyme & Associated Disease Society and The institute of Functional Medicine.Initially on a path toward becoming a surgeon, Dr Sam undertook rotations in Emergency Medicine, Trauma & Orthopaedics, ENT, Breast & Vascular surgery. As part of his training to become a GP, he subsequently went on to complete rotations in Paediatric & Neonatal medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Psychiatry before further 18 months as a GP registrar.However, after a few years working as a GP he became weary of the ‘tick box' approach to modern medicine and began to research other ways to solve his patients' problems.This led him to discover the insight of Functional medicine and as he began to benefit from the results personally he sought to bring this holistic approach to his patients.” ABOUT THE HOSTPhilly J Lay is the author of The Natural Wellness Journal, EFT practitioner, and is also a long-standing advocate for our health and that of our planet. After a near death experience and years of grief, resulting in a range of chronic illnesses, she discovered personalised natural medicine and the associated miracles of the body and power of the mind. Philly is passionate in her belief that everything is connected and that when we learn to heal ourselves, it will help to heal this beautiful world. Find all my socials and links here https://linktr.ee/PhillyjLay ABOUT THE PODCASTThe Wellness Way with Philly J Lay is a layperson's guide to your natural health systems. Your very own NHS. Join me as I chat through many of the astonishing natural ways I used to self heal from a near death medical procedure, PTSD, addiction to opioids and alcohol, and years of grief that lead to many chronic illnesses including a tumour in my throat.I will be sharing clips from my new Fasterclass series, Your Natural Wellness Journey, and interviewing some of the remarkable guides that have transformed my life. We will discuss their stories, specialist fields, and what led them down the path of natural health. heavening, meditation, healing, sciences, manifestation, wellness, ecology, natural health, wellbeing,: https://www.phillyjlay.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's Wednesday, September 28th, A.D. 2022. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Jonathan Clark Hong Kong Bishop on trial for pro-democracy protests A 90-year-old former bishop of Hong Kong went on trial Monday for his support of pro-democracy protests in 2019. Cardinal Joseph Zen is known for speaking out against China's Communist Party which has asserted control over Hong Kong. Police originally arrested the bishop in May. Shortly after China introduced its National Security Law for Hong Kong in 2020, Cardinal Zen said he was ready to face trial and imprisonment. Cubans voted for faux homosexual marriage & homosexual adoption The whirlwind of sexually perverted lifestyles has been let loose on Cuba. On Sunday, Cubans voted in favor of a new family code that legalizes faux homosexual marriage as well as adoption for homosexual couples. Sixty-six percent of voters supported the referendum while 33% opposed it. Meanwhile, a different storm made landfall in Cuba this week. Hurricane Ian slammed into the island on Tuesday. The Category 3 storm caused mass evacuations, power outages, and flooding. Britain's Nat'l Health Service reluctantly allows doctor to pray On Monday, England's National Health Service agreed to a settlement with a Christian doctor facing disciplinary measures for offering to pray with his patients. The NHS investigated Dr. Richard Scott for years based on hearsay complaints. The regulatory body even threatened to remove him from the NHS Practitioners List unless he took a nearly $2,000 “professional boundaries” course at his own expense. The recent settlement says Dr. Scott is allowed to offer to pray with his patients. Dr. Scott told Christian Concern in a video that the next generation of doctors in England live in fear of expressing their faith. SCOTT: “We now have generation of young doctors who are so scared to open their mouth for Jesus in case the National Secular Society, the General Medical Council, NHS England or anybody else, the British Humanist Association, complains. And would rather they didn't get a complaint because it can be very stressful.” Southern Baptist denomination kicks out pro-homosexual church The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention decided to disfellowship a congregation last week over its open affirmation of homosexuality. Texas pastor Jared Wellman, who serves as the Southern Baptist Executive Committee chairman, told Baptist Press the congregation was “outside the bounds of fellowship with Southern Baptists.” College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina was founded in 1906. Its website states it is a “Welcoming, LGBTQIA Affirming Baptist Church.” That's quite an alphabet soup there. James 4:4 says, “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” Two anti-abortion laws in Arizona Two anti-abortion laws took effect in Arizona last week. On Friday, a county judge reinstated an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. The law has not been in effect since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. However, the judge reinstated the law in light of the court's reversal of Roe this year. A second Arizona law also took effect Saturday, banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood Arizona is suspending abortions in response to the laws. Pro-life canvasser shot in back On September 20th, a short, 83-year-old pro-life Michigan woman was going door to door in Odessa Township, volunteering her time to urge voters to vote against Proposal 3, a pro-abortion constitutional amendment on the November ballot, reports Channel 8 News. Anna Visser, director of Communication and Education for Michigan Right to Life, summarized what happened when she came to the home of Richard and Sharon Harvey. VISSER: “From her account, the lady, [Sharon Harvey], that answered the door, was upset with her, started screaming at her. And then, as she was walking away, a man, [Richard Harvey], from the house whom she wasn't originally talking to, he came out, and shot her in the back as she was walking away.” The volunteer, who has chosen to remain anonymous, drove herself to the Lake Odessa Police Department and was then treated and released from the hospital. Richard Harvey claims he shot her by accident. The 83-year-old pro-lifer is a long-time volunteer and has had no complaints about how she has discussed the abortion issue at the doorstep of people's homes. According to a Michigan Right to Life press release, the out-of-control rhetoric of President Joe Biden and Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer must end with the shooting of a pro-life volunteer. Visser said, “She is recovering well and is in good spirits.” Americans confused about whether we are a Christian nation The University of Maryland's Critical Issues Poll found 70% of Americans think the U.S. Constitution would not allow the U.S. government to declare the United States a Christian nation. Sixty-two percent of Americans also oppose the United States officially declaring itself to be a Christian nation. John Jay, the First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” Not surprisingly, a majority of Republicans (at 61%) are in favor of the U.S. declaring itself a Christian nation. Psalm 9:17, 20 says, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. … Put them in fear, O LORD, that the nations may know themselves to be but men.” Tennessee Governor's acknowledgement of God's sovereignty And finally, Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a proclamation declaring Friday, September 30 a day of prayer, humility, and fasting. The proclamation declared, “We acknowledge God's sovereignty and the need for God's grace over our state and our nation. …. We seek forgiveness for our many transgressions so that our hearts and our minds may be renewed. … Scripture tells us that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and the Lord gives wisdom freely to those who ask for it. … The people of Tennessee acknowledge our rich blessings, our deep transgressions, the complex challenges ahead, and the need to pause, to humble ourselves and to seek God's guidance for the days ahead.” Close And that's The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Wednesday, September 28th, in the year of our Lord 2022. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.
Dr Sarah Myhill is a naturopathic physician, member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, former GP, and the most investigated person by the British Medical Council. Dr Myhill joins Philly this week on The Wellness Way to discuss her new book Green Mother, her time as a GP, what she's learned about ecological medicine, and just why she became so infamous with the medical establishment. KEY TAKEAWAYSWhile working as a GP for many years, Dr Myhill learned that the impact of diet and environment were so much more important at getting to the real cause of illness, rather than medicine that just suppresses symptoms. She even got in trouble with the General Medical Council for under prescribing medication because they thought if she wasn't just giving out drugs then she must be a bad doctor. It's Dr Myhill's view that all information should be freely available, which is why she started putting her ideas up on her website so people could read about how they could heal themselves with vitamins and minerals etc. The starting point to treat all diseases is diet. If you over eat too many sugars and carbohydrates you overwhelm the ability of the upper gut to sterilise and develop an upper fermenting gut. Microbes from the gut can get into the bloodstream and if these are the microbes from the fermenting gut, it can cause illness and allergic reactions. Milk is a risk factor for cancer. Milk proteins are growing proteins which evolutionarily makes sense because young animals need to grow. Milk proteins also create sticky blood which is a risk factor for heart disease. BEST MOMENTS‘Modernen medicine is not about looking for the root cause of disease, it's about symptom suppression with drugs' ‘It's Myhill 38 - GMC 0, I've won every single one of my investigations'‘Statins are one of my most hated drugs' ‘A patient came to me and said she'd forgotten how it felt to feel well' EPISODE RESOURCESGreen Mother: Families fit for the futurehttps://www.healthcarethefuture.com/https://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://www.tiktok.com/@phillyjlay1https://www.instagram.com/phillyjlay/https://www.phillyjlay.com/ ABOUT THE HOSTPhilly J Lay is the author of The Natural Wellness Journal, EFT practitioner, and is also a long-standing advocate for our health and that of our planet. After a near death experience and years of grief, resulting in a range of chronic illnesses, she discovered personalised natural medicine and the associated miracles of the body and power of the mind. Philly is passionate in her belief that everything is connected and that when we learn to heal ourselves, it will help to heal this beautiful world. Find all my socials and links here https://linktr.ee/PhillyjLay ABOUT THE PODCASTThe Wellness Way with Philly J Lay is a layperson's guide to your natural health systems. Your very own NHS. Join me as I chat through many of the astonishing natural ways I used to self heal from a near death medical procedure, PTSD, addiction to opioids and alcohol, and years of grief that lead to many chronic illnesses including a tumour in my throat. I will be sharing clips from my new Fasterclass series, Your Natural Wellness Journey, and interviewing some of the remarkable guides that have transformed my life. We will discuss their stories, specialist fields, and what led them down the path of natural health. heavening, meditation, healing, sciences, manifestation, wellness, ecology, natural health, wellbeing,: https://www.phillyjlay.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this interview with Andy Wakefield, Cilla asks Andy to discuss his article The Sixth Extinction: https://www.jpands.org/vol24no3/wakefield.pdf. Key points addressed, include: The success of herd immunity in the measles virus, which proves interventions unnecessaryKnown and unknown benefits and protections provided by viruses and microbes Prior exposure to viruses provide protection to later strains, while inoculation leads to greater risks and susceptibilityInoculation-resistant strains in highly injected populations The role of inoculations in promoting resistant strains of the current virusAndy and Cilla go on to discuss the value of homeoprophylaxis (HP). Despite the success of HP, it has been devalued and suppressed because it lacks a commercial value to pharmaceutical companies. Finally, Cilla and Andy reflect upon the good news in regards to the current virus in that it has drawn more attention to the problems of the pharmaceutical industry. Andy concludes by sharing a bit about his newest film project. DIRECTOR Andrew Wakefield MB.BS., is an academic gastroenterologist. He received his medical degree in 1981. Wakefield has published over 140 original scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters. In 1995, he started investigating a possible role between gastrointestinal issues, the MMR vaccine, and neurological injury in children. In pursuit of this possible link, Dr. Wakefield participated in a study of twelve children with both stomach and developmental issues. The ensuing report, written with twelve other authors, would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of Medicine. In 2004, freelance journalist, Brian Deer, published an investigation into Wakefield et al. claiming that Wakefield et al. falsified data and committed fraud. Deer attacked Dr. Wakefield's ethics, as having unreported conflicts of financial interests, and of falsifying research data in a report co-authored by 12 others. Deer's allegations led the General Medical Council to revoke Dr. Wakefield's license to practice medicine. More recently, on appeal, the English High Court overturned the allegations made against the senior authors of the Lancet paper and Wakefield's colleague Professor John Walker-Smith was reinstated and exonerated.Wakefield continues to fight back on behalf of affected children, winning numerous awards for his writing and films which can be found at 1986theact.com. His latest film on the infertility epidemic is available for free at infertilitythemovie.com. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
In this episode, I chat with Tista Chakravarty-Gannon who is the Regional Liaison Adviser at the General Medical Council. We talk all about what standards the GMC will set for the Physician Associate profession.The consultation on Good Medical Practice is open until 20th July 2022, and you can get involved in shaping the future professional standards for Doctors, PAs and AAs by tapping here Or if you have any questions about how the professional standards guidance for PAs and AAs will apply when regulation begins you can email standards@gmc-uk.org You can connect with the Physician Associate PodcastTwitter - @PApodcastUKFacebook - @PApodcastUKInstagram - @PApodcastUK
Key Themes: Burnout, Big 4, Management Consulting Today I'm delighted to share with you a Career Confidence Conversation that I had with Ben Jones. Ben spent the early part of his career rapidly rising through the ranks at Accenture, KPMG and PWC along with a stint in a Leadership position at the General Medical Council. As a new father he was on the Partner Track at PWC when he found himself in the midst of a breakdown that would lead him to change every aspect of his life. Ben has now retrained and is about to begin his new career as a Counsellor and is a vocal mental health advocate who teacher others how they can find balance in their life. You can find out more about Ben and his work here: https://www.amjcounselling.com/ About Nicola Semple I help people to build their career confidence and achieve their career goals. You can book a free no-obligation chat about how I can support you to achieve your career goals: https://nicolasemple.com/chat You can get my free guide "Back Yourself: Your 7 Step Plan to Build Confidence and Achieve Your Career Goals": https://nicolasemple.com/backyourself Connect with me on Linked In to carry on the conversation: https://linkedin.com/in/iamnicolasemple I will be releasing a new episode of The Career Confidence Podcast each Friday so make sure that you hit the subscribe button and you will be the first to know when a new episode goes live.
Katarina Rimarcikova tells us why we must change our fashion habits. And Dr. Toni Burke talks talks to us about trends in Aesthetic Medicine. Changing Face of Fashion Katarina Rimarcikova has been working in the fashion world her whole life. From graduating from Central St. Martins to working in luxury fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen and Gucci, she then set up her eponymous label in Paris. https://www.aligncreativestudio.com/ https://www.katarinarimarcikova.com/ Katarina now focuses on her work as a Subject Leader in Fashion Arts at the London College of Fashion, UAL, University of the Arts, London, since 2013. She continues to travel the world to deepen her knowledge of best practices in sustainability, innovation, circular design and responsible business. In this conversation, Katarina explains why we need to care about our clothes and how we can begin to move from a linear to circular fashion economy. Sustainability in fashion is a complex topic that can only be addressed by collaboration and knowledge. Currently 30% of what is made in fashion is not used or sold. About 68% of all textiles are made from oil and it takes around 400 years to break some fabrics down. Add to this the millions of tons of microfibres entering our water systems each time we wash our clothes. As for 'luxury' fashion - what does that even mean anymore? Expert craftsmanship or luxury mass-produced, expensive labels who want a global brand? Care, Repair, Maintain Organic cotton might not use heavy duty pesticides (which in turn affects soil health), but does use more water. And so we need to constantly rethink how we design to solve these global environmental problems. Rimarcikova believes we need to empower designers and design for disassembly. We also need to redesign mixed fabrics so that they can biodegrade. Brands need trust, transparency and loyalty. And our duty, as conscious consumers, is to 'Care, repair and Maintain', plus to always remember that we have influence through our wallet. Aesthetic Medicine Dr. Toni Burke has been working in aesthetic medicine since 2008 and during that time has seen the field bloom. However, as this burgeoning field of medicine develops, so too do the ethical questions plus legal implications. In the UK, currently anyone can inject (botox or fillers). However, if there is a complication, as a patient you can only report if the practitioner is a licenced medical professional (doctor, dentist etc). Alongside the commonly known botox, there are myriad other aesthetic practices, and the main goal is to make people feel good about themselves at the age they are. Unfortunately, there is also the weight of social media pressure which makes some people feel insecure. Dr. Burke believes body dysmorphia is on the rise. She believes aesthetic medicine should not be a trending beautification treatment but to help self-confidence in becoming the best we can be, with a natural look, at whatever stage of life we are in. Dr Burke completed her medical training at University College London Medical School and entered a surgical rotation under the London Deanery before finally specialising in Medical Aesthetics in 2008. She is a full member of the British College of Aesthetic Medicine, registered with the General Medical Council and forms part of the CMAC Specialist Advisory Board, a collaboration regarding the management of complications in Medical Aesthetics. For almost a decade, Dr Burke has worked as a Harley Street practitioner whilst also becoming a lead trainer supporting the standards of educational growth for Aesthetic medical professionals. More recently she has opened Fitzrovia Clinic in central London focusing on personalised service and results-driven treatments. Outside of clinic, Dr Burke has a passion for anatomical imagery, improving the quality of medical visuals within this specialised field. Her illustrations and 3D animations can be found online, published in medical journals, and most recently, a book focusing on Injection Anatomy, widely used in the Aesthetic community. https://fitzroviaclinic.com/ I love to hear your feedback. You can get in touch on social media and please do subscribe, rate and review my podcast on Apple, and Spotify
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 - 12:02) Where Did All the ‘Women' Go?: The Cultural Disappearance of Women in the Wake of Language Shift Towards ‘Pregnant People'A Vanishing Word in Abortion Debate: ‘Women' by New York Times (Michael Powell)Part II (12:02 - 15:52) Biomedical Researcher Argues for Usefulness of Term ‘Woman' in Healthcare — In the Ancient Year of 2020Do We Need the Word ‘Woman' in Healthcare? by British Medical Journal (Sara Dahlen)De-sexing the Medical Record? An Examination of Sex Versus Gender Identity in the General Medical Council's Trans Healthcare Ethical Advice by The New Bioethics (Sara Dahlen)Part III (15:52 - 20:35) Do Babies Go to Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingThe Salvation of the 'Little Ones': Do Infants who Die Go to Heaven? by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler, Jr. and Daniel L. Akin)Part IV (20:35 - 22:54) Should We Have a Burial Service For Baby After Miscarriage? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart V (22:54 - 26:30) Is It Okay for Christians to Use and Enjoy Humor? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingSign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.
Speaking with the astute Dr Sarah Myhill whose experience as a British medical doctor led her to what works in chronic illness: naturopathic medicine. And no vaccines to poison us. Getting to the root of the problem. Her belief in the power of naturopathic medicine led her to deregister from the UK's General Medical Council and register with the Association of Naturopathic Practitioners.Medical Director of UK Medical Freedom AlliancePatron of ANP (Association of Naturopathic Practitioners) Clinical Director of the College of Naturopathic Medicine https://www.drmyhill.co.uk/ - over 20 million hits to date. BIO: Dr Myhill qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, Honours viva, 1981. She worked for 20 years as an NHS GP before moving to Independent Medical Practice with a special interest in CFS/ME. She practices Ecological Medicine – diagnosing mechanisms if disease which have obvious implications for management. She has been an active member of the BSEM since 1986 Hon Meetings Secretary (1993–1998) including 5 day International Conference “Sustainable Medicine” at Christ Church College Oxford, Hon Secretary 1999 -2007. Lectures regularly to doctors and health professionals who are interested in Ecological Medicine. Author of award winning books: “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - it's mitochondria not hypochondria” BMA Prize Highly Commended 2014. Second edition 2017 (5 reprints)“Sustainable Medicine” (Beryl Bainbridge Prize 2016).“Diabetes” (Beryl Bainbridge Prize 2017)“The PK Cookbook” 2017, now updated to “Paleo-ketogenic - the why and the how – just what this doctor ordered”“The Infection Game” 2018, updated 2018“Ecological Medicine – the antidote to Big Pharm and fast food” 202) https://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/My_book_Ecological_Medicine_-_The_Antidote_to_Big_Pharma_and_Fast_Foods“The Energy Equation – From the Naked Ape to the Knackered Ape” “Green Mother – Families Fit for the Future” In the pipeline “The Underactive Thyroid – do it yourself because your doctor won't” She has made media appearances in Newsnight (silicone implants), Dispatches (BSE and organophosphate poisoning), Woman's hour (silicone breast implants, allergies), Esther Rantzen show (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Watchdog Healthcheck (silicone implants) as well as many Welsh TV programmes and local radio in UK and abroad.Lecturer to What Doctors Don't Tell You, BANT (British Association of Nutritional Therapists), BSEM, ANP (Association of Naturopathic Practitioners) and othersCo-author of three papers on CFS and mitochondrial function:· http://www.ijcem.com/files/IJCEM812001.pdf · www.ijcem.com/files/IJCEM1204005.pdf · http://www.ijcem.com/files/IJCEM1207003.pdf Everyone should know Dr Myhill, one of the good ones, one of the best.Counting down to weeks away to the publication of Transforming Trauma, a drugless and creative path to healing PTS and ACE. I am again seeing patients and planning groups and retreats. Please email drheatherh@icloud.com for more info. Website: drheatherherington.com Support the show
Consuming too many sugars and carbohydrates can have long term negative consequences to your health. Dr. Sarah Myhill sheds light on chronic fatigue syndrome management and how a ketogenic diet supports good health for life. In this episode, Cathy and Sarah discuss: Diagnosing chronic fatigue syndrome based on a patient's overall clinical picture Managing chronic fatigue by addressing 4 control mechanisms: diet and gut function, mitochondria, thyroid, adrenal Finding root causes and setting people up with good health for life Understanding how ketosis helps preserve energy and improve gut health Examples of daily meals and eating habits on a ketogenic diet How a ketogenic diet is based on high calories and creates high energy Acknowledging the impact of a lifestyle addicted to sugars and carbohydrates Advice for measuring and testing to know if you're in ketosis Simplifying blood sugar control with a ketogenic diet Benefits of unprocessed foods and sticking to primitive principles of eating Memorable Quotes: “The problem with most prescription medications is most are symptom suppression. And that is not the way to cure somebody.” “The single largest problem that we face is that we are not eating an evolutionarily correct diet.” “We spend an awful lot of energy detoxing a toxic gut. We spend an awful lot of raw materials on that same process, and that is an enormous waste of energy.” “We should all be eating foods which are as unprocessed as possible.” Dr. Sarah Myhill qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, honours viva, 1981, since when she has been working continuously in NHS general and private practice. This was part time work when her daughters Ruth and Claire were born in 1982 and 1984. She has a special interest in treating chronic fatigue syndrome and estimates she has seen over 9,000 patients with CFS and/or ME. This includes patients with post viral fatigue, occupational exposure to organophosphates, Gulf War Veterans, aerotoxic pilots, vaccination, 9/11 syndrome, sick building syndrome etc. In 1997, she gave evidence to two government working parties, one of which looked into this problem, and one into the health problems of silicone breast implants. She is affiliated to the Association of Naturopathic Physicians and the General Naturopathic Council. Dr. Sarah Myhill has been helping sufferers from debilitating chronic conditions for over 30 years with an approach that combines all the benefits of current scientific knowledge and medical testing and treatments with an expanding appreciation of the importance of nutrition and lifestyle. She is currently a Naturopathic Physician, Member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine and was formerly an active member of the General Medical Council. She's written many books and has won several awards including the Peoples Book Prize Winner and was a British Medical Association Short-listed author. She has also co-authored three medical papers on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and mitochondrial dysfunction and is highly regarded for her expertise in this area. Author/co-author of seven books: Diagnosis of CFS and ME Ecological Medicine The PK Cookbook Prevent and Cure Diabetes The Infection Game The Energy Equation NEW RELEASE: Green Mother - Families Fit for the Future Mentioned In This Episode: Books: https://www.amazon.com/Diagnosis-Treatment-Chronic-Syndrome-Encephalitis/dp/160358787X https://www.amazon.com/Green-Mother-Families-Fit-Future/dp/1781612048/ Website: https://www.drmyhill.co.uk/ Links to resources: Health Coach Group Website https://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/
Reports from North Korea have suggested a scarcity of data on healthcare provision but Claudia hears from Professor Hazel Smith who has researched North Korea for over thirty years that there is good information about health services. And do doctors have a professional duty to be kind? The General Medical Council in the UK are consulting on whether to require doctors to ‘treat patients with kindness' and some have not taken kindly to the idea. Louella Vaughan, a hospital consultant in acute medicine and family doctor Ann Robinson debate the issues. Plus Claudia's studio guest today is Graham Easton, Professor of Clinical Communication skills at Queen Mary, University of London. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Erika Wright (Picture: Pedestrians walk past cherry blossom trees near the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang in April 2022. Photo credit: Kim Won Jin/AFP/Getty Images.)
Reports from North Korea have suggested a scarcity of data on healthcare provision but Claudia hears from Professor Hazel Smith who has researched North Korea for over thirty years that there is good information about health services. And do doctors have a professional duty to be kind? The General Medical Council in the UK are consulting on whether to require doctors to ‘treat patients with kindness’ and some have not taken kindly to the idea. Louella Vaughan, a hospital consultant in acute medicine and family doctor Ann Robinson debate the issues. Plus Claudia’s studio guest today is Graham Easton, Professor of Clinical Communication skills at Queen Mary, University of London. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Erika Wright (Picture: Pedestrians walk past cherry blossom trees near the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang in April 2022. Photo credit: Kim Won Jin/AFP/Getty Images.)
In 2014 Dame Clare Marx became the first woman President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and, five years later, she was the first woman to become the Chair of the General Medical Council. When she started practising as an orthopaedic surgeon, in 1993, there were very few women surgeons and, shockingly, that's still the case: men outnumber women eight to one as surgical consultants. So Clare Marx has overcome significant prejudice to reach the top of her field; in 2007 she received a CBE and in 2018 a DBE for services to medicine. But last summer she announced her resignation from the General Medical Council after she was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer. She's sixty-eight. In a public letter she said: “Since receiving this news, I've been reminded once again of the importance and power of kindness in everything we do as doctors.” In a moving and uplifting interview, Clare Marx talks to Michael Berkeley about her pioneering medical career, the shock of her diagnosis, and the music that's sustained her. Choices include Britten's “Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, to remind her of her home in Suffolk; Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto; Beethoven's Ode to Joy; Verdi's Requiem; and Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. Pancreatic Cancer UK www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk Information and support: Cancer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1KkkxvD0G1w4l294QCrQZbh/information-and-support-cancer Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
We need energy to live and truly enjoy life. Dr. Sarah Myhill breaks down chronic fatigue syndrome, how the right diet can improve your sleep and gut health, and why it's time to pay attention to the fuel we give our bodies. In this episode, Cathy and Sarah discuss: Defining chronic fatigue syndrome and why Western medicine struggles to address it Dr. Myhill's motivation for focusing on mitochondria and chronic fatigue syndrome The importance of consuming the right foods vs. processed foods, sugars, and carbs Benefits and drawbacks of adopting a paleo ketogenic diet Why sufficient sleep is necessary and how sugars and carbohydrates disturb sleep Understanding core temperature and how to use it to help monitor your health How our gut health and microbiome is impacted by sugars and carbohydrates Whether someone can completely rid themselves of chronic fatigue syndrome Details about Dr. Myhill's books Memorable Quotes: “The energy delivery mechanisms of the body are not dissimilar to energy delivery mechanisms in a car, and for your car to go, we've got to have the right fuel in the tank.” “We live life to get out there and do things and have fun and we need energy to do that.” “Core temperature is a very useful measure of the sum total of energy delivery mechanisms.” Dr. Sarah Myhill qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, honours viva, 1981, since when she has been working continuously in NHS general and private practice. This was part time work when her daughters Ruth and Claire were born in 1982 and 1984. She has a special interest in treating chronic fatigue syndrome and estimates she have seen over 9,000 patients with CFS and/or ME. This includes patients with post viral fatigue, occupational exposure to organophosphates, Gulf War Veterans, aerotoxic pilots, vaccination, 9/11 syndrome, sick building syndrome etc. In 1997, she gave evidence to two government working parties, one of which looked into this problem, and one into the health problems of silicone breast implants. She is affiliated to the Association of Naturopathic Physicians and the General Naturopathic Council. Dr. Sarah Myhill has been helping sufferers from debilitating chronic conditions for over 30 years with an approach that combines all the benefits of current scientific knowledge and medical testing and treatments with an expanding appreciation of the importance of nutrition and lifestyle. She is currently a Naturopathic Physician, Member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine and was formerly an active member of the General Medical Council. She's written many books and has won several awards including the Peoples Book Prize Winner and was a British Medical Association Short-listed author. She has also co-authored three medical papers on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and mitochondrial dysfunction and is highly regarded for her expertise in this area. Author/co-author of seven books: Diagnosis of CFS and ME Ecological Medicine The PK Cookbook Prevent and Cure Diabetes The Infection Game The Energy Equation NEW RELEASE: Green Mother - Families Fit for the Future Listen To Episode 184 Below: Mentioned In This Episode: Books: https://www.amazon.com/Diagnosis-Treatment-Chronic-Syndrome-Encephalitis/dp/160358787X https://www.amazon.com/Green-Mother-Families-Fit-Future/dp/1781612048/ Website: https://www.drmyhill.co.uk/ Links to resources: Health Coach Group Website https://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/
Derry GP and former Sligo-Leitrim General Election candidate, Dr Anne McCloskey, was suspended from practising medicine for 18 months by the UK's General Medical Council, pending an investigation into disinformation on Covid vaccines. She has defended her right to address a Sligo event at the weekend on the same matter
Happy New Year and welcome back to Forever Young. With each new year comes new health and wellness goals. With this in mind, we are delighted to introduce Lanserhof at The Arts Club's Consultant Neurologist and Sleep Disorders Specialist, Dr Oliver Bernath. With serious long-term health implications associated with lack of sleep, the growing number of adults struggling is a worrying trend. Dr Bernath holds US Board certifications in neurology, neurophysiology and sleep medicine and is on the General Medical Council specialist register. He led the Northern California Sleep Disorders Centre at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and now sees patients at the NHS Sleep Clinic at Guy's Hospital, as well as at Lanserhof at The Arts Club. Dr Bernath is also a partner at PwC in strategy and healthcare and leads the Health Analytics group in Consulting. Listen to an insightful discussion with the sleep expert to better understand healthy sleep, key recommendations and the affects it has on energy levels and performance. https://www.lanserhof.com/en Welcome to Forever Young, the Lanserhof podcast. Every other Tuesday, join Mario Pederzolli in conversation with a variety of health experts and special guests as they explore what it means to live a balanced, healthy and happy life. If you have any questions regarding any of the topics discussed, then we would be delighted to hear from you. Please email podcast@lanserhof.com. Please note that this podcast presents various views and opinions and the content should not be taken as medical advice. We are all unique, therefore, please do consult your doctor or speak to one of our doctors directly for any specific medical guidance.
A British doctor published an article in the leading medical journal The Lancet in 1998 that led to a global panic over the triple vaccine protecting children against measles, mumps and rubella.Dr Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine with autism. He advocated the use of single vaccines instead while the link was explored.Meanwhile many parents stopped vaccinating their children entirely, leading to outbreaks of measles.In 2010 the General Medical Council in the UK found Dr Wakefield 'dishonest' and 'irresponsible' and struck him off the medical register.Photo: Dr Andrew Wakefield arrives at the General Medical Council in London to face a disciplinary panel, July 16th 2007 (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)