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Bedside Reading

Bedside Reading Podcast

A medical humanities podcast where we explore themes from fiction, memoir and other non traditional non-textbooks which help to make us better at what we do.Hosted by Dr Tara George, a GP and medical educator, in each episode a different guest explores a book that has changed their practice. Follow us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/bedsidereading.bsky.social Facebook or Instagram @bedsidereadingpodcast. If you"d like to recommend a book or to come on the podcast as a guest please email:

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32:18

Leadership Hikers

Bedside Reading ·

2025/08/19

Send us a text I've got two guests with me today, Joanna Bircher and Ben Allen, two GPs who are talking about a book they've both been involved in. Joanna is one of the co-editors of a collection of stories from leaders in Primary Care. The stories featured are not just from GPs, there's a really, really wide range of primary care professionals talking about leadership and what leadership means for them in a really practical sense of how they have done the things that they've done. It ...

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33:44

Havoc

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2025/08/11

Send us a text A warm welcome back to the podcast today to novelist Rebecca Wait. We are today talking about her fabulous novel Havoc, which was published in July 2025. We recorded it just before it was released into the world. As this episode goes out it's been flying off the shelves for a few weeks now. It is an excellent, excellent book. If you are looking for something to pack and take on holiday with you, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is the absolutely compelling and co...

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31:32

Belly Full

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2025/08/04

Send us a text Today I am delighted to be talking to Heidi Edmondson, consultant in emergency medicine from London. We are talking about her second book, her memoir Bellyfull. This is the story of Heidi's own journey through a very serious and rare illness and her strategies for denial, for adaptation, and for keeping on, keeping on, really beyond the point at which most of us would perhaps have succumbed to the overwhelming fatigue and general malaise that she was suffering from. She expl...

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36:06

Playing Big

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2025/07/28

Send us a text Have you ever suffered from imposter syndrome? I think most healthcare professionals have done at some point during their lives. Today's book is one which seeks to address many of the factors that influence that. Though interestingly, the writer Tara Moore doesn't ever use the phrase "imposter syndrome". I'm here today with Sam Powell to talk about Playing Big by Tara Moore. This is a really accessible leadership book, thinking about why women often "play small", why they don't...

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34:12

Blue Sons and Skyshine

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2025/07/21

Send us a text Regular listeners may remember that I always say that I don't like fantasy and also how excited that I get when I am able to talk to an author. So I'm delighted today to welcome Joe Moore to Bedside Reading to talk about his young adult novel, which is called Blue Suns and Skyshine. It's quite a difficult book to categorise. And I think we've decided that it's magic realism, though Joe's decided that he'd quite like to invent a completely new genre, which is called magical re...

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35:18

Needle

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2025/07/15

Send us a text It's a huge pleasure to welcome the brilliant Becky Platt to Bedside Reading this week. We're talking about Needle by Patrice Lawrence. Becky is an ACP in paediatric emergency medicine in London. She's also part of the exec for Don't Forget the Bubbles, an amazing open access medical education organisation. https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/ Becky's compassion, her willingness to see young people as themselves, to be thinking about things from other people's perspective...

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34:42

Trust me, I'm Exhausted

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2025/07/07

Send us a text A very warm welcome today to retired paediatrician, Dr Harry Stone, who is here today to talk about his memoir, Trust Me, I'm Exhausted, How Not to Train a Doctor. This is a really engaging medical memoir, one framed by an admission as a patient to the hospital that retired Dr Stone worked in. As he lies in a hospital bed, before he lies in a hospital bed, as he lies on a trolley, as he experiences some of the most challenging care that the NHS is able to offer in corridors, ...

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35:31

Nonviolent Communication

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2025/06/30

Send us a text I'm really delighted today to welcome Scott Weingart to Bedside Reading. Scott is an emergency critical care physician from New York and the host of the EMCrit blog and podcast https://emcrit.org/ We are today talking about Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg. This is such a brilliant accessible book which has really got me thinking a lot about what we need, how important bringing our own feelings into a conversation are, but the importance of owning...

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34:55

The Midwife

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2025/06/24

Send us a text A very warm welcome today to midwife and educator Suzanne Crozier. We are talking about a book called The Midwife by Tricia Cresswell, which is an absolutely brilliant historical fiction novel, which Suzanne and I both enjoyed enormously for some similar and some different reasons. The Midwife is set in rural Northumberland and in Victorian London. And it's one of those brilliant books with dual narratives, with two wonderful protagonists. It keeps you guessing, and makes yo...

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35:07

Georgia Vine: Occupational Therapy, Disability...

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2025/06/16

Send us a text I'm really pleased today to be welcoming Georgia Vine to Bedside Reading. Georgia is an OT and is the author of Occupational Therapy, Disability Activism and Me, Challenging Ableism in Healthcare, which is a bit of a mouthful of a title for a very slim and absolutely brilliant, brilliant book. Georgia is an OT, she is an educator at the University of Huddersfield and she also is disabled. She has cerebral palsy and this book is based on her own experiences through the educat...

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40:57

The Anxious Generation

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2025/06/09

Send us a text I'm here today with Laura Spells to talk about a book called The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. And we are thinking about Gen Z in particular and the generation behind that, the younger children. We're thinking about smartphone use. We're thinking about the effect that phones and social media have on developing brains. The move that has happened in the world from play-based to a phone-based childhood and what we're losing in that and what we're gaining in terms of anxie...

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34:08

Bonus Episode: Interpretations of Love

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2025/06/07

Send us a text It is a great pleasure today to re-release an episode from back in season 7 to celebrate the paperback edition of to Jane Campbell’s novel “Interpretations of Love” which was published on 5th June Jane joined me to talk about her first novel, Interpretations of Love. Regular listeners may know that I've talked about one of Jane's books before, which is a short story collection called Cat Brushing, which I absolutely loved. Jane was a group analyst and then became a ...

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35:38

Reading Well. The Reading Agency: Books on Prescription

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2025/06/03

Send us a text Welcome to season 10 of Bedside Reading and what a series I've got lined up for you this time around! I am delighted to be launching today with two very special guests, Debbie Hicks and Gemma Jolly from The Reading Agency. The Reading Agency is an absolutely wonderful charity and their Reading Well "Books on Prescription" scheme is absolutely fantastic. If you don't know about it already, there's plenty in the show notes to tell you about it and we will be talking about it du...

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22:30

Bedside Poetry: Rema Jyothirmayi and I explore "Now I...

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2025/05/27

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27:38

Bedside Poetry: Charley Baker and I explore "Nasty...

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2025/05/19

Send us a text Nina Donovan's brilliant poem Nasty Woman moves me so much every time I hear it, or read it. It's such a joy to welcome Charley to the podcast here Listen to Nina perform her poem here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvN0On85sNQ

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22:06

Bedside Poetry: Jo Maher and I explore "Three Little...

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2025/05/12

Send us a text In this episode, I'm joined by GP Jo Maher as we delve into Jackie Kay’s evocative poem “Three Little Birds” We explore grief, memory, the power of music and the possibility of an earworm from beyond the grave Whether you’re familiar with her work or discovering it for the first time, this episode offers a heartfelt look at one of Jackie Kay’s most moving poems. we mentioned Jo's partner's poetry podcast which you can find here: https://www.chris-jones.org.uk/

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23:08

Bedside Poetry: Sam Guglani and I explore...

Bedside Reading ·

2025/05/06

Send us a text It's a real treat to welcome one of my all time medical humanities heroes to the podcast again this week. Sam Guglani is an oncologist, poet and novelist. He is the curator of the incredible Medicine Unboxed, hosting a festival which I've thoroughly enjoyed attending and this wonderful podcast https://soundcloud.com/medicineunboxed Sam was generous enough to give up his time to talk about his wonderful novel Histories back in season 2 (listen here: https://bedsidere...

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21:35

Bedside Poetry: Lizz Lidbury and I explore "Arguing...

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2025/04/29

Send us a text I'm not sure I can say I have a favourite poet but if I were forced to choose the incredible Hollie McNish would be up there as a hot favourite. Lizz Lidbury and I are talking about one of our favourite of her poems today Arguing in the Headmaster's Office. As the mother of teenage girls this one spoke to me (and is one of the only literature sources my older teen and I can both agree on the brilliance of!!) It's clearly best when ready by Hollie herself so h...

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21:23

Bedside Poetry: Tom Oates and I explore "For Andrew...

Bedside Reading ·

2025/04/22

Send us a text There is a wonderful recording of James Fenton reading this wonderful poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D3KcWVfQS8 it is well worth listening to. Follow Tom on bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/tpoates.bsky.social

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22:31

Bedside Poetry: Sabina Dosani and I explore "Visit to...

Bedside Reading ·

2025/04/15

Send us a text Welcome to the third in a short special series of "Bedside Poetry" podcasts. One poem, one guest, one conversation.... I'm delighted to welcome psychiatrist and writer Sabina Dosani to explore "Visit to the Vets" by Ilse Pedler Listen here to Ilse Pedler reading her poem herself: https://youtu.be/p3LTxg1SnP0?si=bMtri4HsTIAGMKcb

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