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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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20:33

Bedside Poetry: Vicky Thomas and I explore "in time...

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2025/04/08

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Bedside Poetry: Beth Osmond and I explore "Ode to...

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2025/04/01

Send us a text Welcome to the first of a short special series of "Bedside Poetry" podcasts. One poem, one guest, one conversation.... I'm delighted to welcome neonatologist and poet Beth Osmond to explore Angel Nafis' poem "Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot" find the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/149508/ode-to-dalyas-bald-spot

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35:44

Soldier Sailor

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2025/03/25

Send us a text This is the last episode in season eight of the podcast. What a season we've had, finishing off with discussion of Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy. I'm delighted to welcome Laura Shtaingos to the podcast today. Laura wears a number of hats, mostly working within the perinatal mental health space. And it was really, really good to be talking to her about Claire Kilroy's extraordinary, raw novel. which I think brings up lots of themes very pertinent for anybody who is looking aft...

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35:37

Dirty Laundry

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2025/03/18

Send us a text I'm delighted to welcome Abi Lucking, GP and Medical Educator to Bedside Reading today. We are talking about Dirty Laundry by Richard Pink and Roxanne Emery. You may have come across Rich and Rox. They are the couple ADHD_love_ frequently to be found on Instagram and on Facebook and TikTok. It was really, really good to find that they had written a great book, which is very short, very accessible, very readable, and one of the most compassionate and wise books I've read i...

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34:16

The Madness of Grief

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2025/03/11

Send us a text The Reverend Richard Cole's memoir of grieving for his husband David, The Madness of Grief, is I think one of the most brilliant and moving books on the topic I have ever read. When I started the podcast, I imagined that it wouldn't be long before somebody got in contact and wanted to talk about it. So it's been astonishing that we are almost at the end of season eight before a guest has asked to come and talk about it. And I'm glad I waited because I have loved talking to Lyns...

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36:37

A Beginners Guide to Dying

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2025/03/04

Send us a text It's a really warm welcome back today to Anna Baverstock, a paediatrician from Taunton in Somerset. We are talking today about A Beginner's Guide to Dying by Simon Boas. Don't let the word dying in the title put you off. This is an absolutely wonderful and incredibly uplifting short book. It was written by Simon Boas in the last few months of his life. It is reflections on a life immensely well lived and his reflections on the way to be. How to live life to the full, especia...

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34:27

When the Dust Settles - Lucy Easthope

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2025/02/25

Send us a text Lucy Easthope's book, When the Dust Settles, is quite possibly one of the most astonishing things I have ever read. Having come back to it for today's podcast, I am struck again by the compassionate wisdom with which Lucy writes and how relevant the themes from disaster recovery are to all of us, particularly those of us working in healthcare. It was such a treat to talk to Lucy herself. I think I managed not to be too fan girly during the course of this interview. You can let...

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34:09

The Heart of the Matter

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2025/02/18

Send us a text Today I am talking to Kas Hawes, a GP in the North of England, about her book, The Heart of the Matter, A Day in the Life of a GP. On the jacket, it is described as "a unique story, the story of a doctor and the many patients she sees every day, a tale of the diversity of life, the uniqueness of individuals and the impact of deprivation on the health of society". The blurb goes on to say this is a book about "being human, the challenge of being on the front line, trying ...

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34:10

Unheard

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2025/02/11

Send us a text What a treat recording this episode was. Such a privilege to meet one of my medical writing heroes, Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan to talk about her book, Unheard, The Medical Practice of Silencing. If you haven't read it yet, oh my goodness, I'm actually quite jealous. You're in for a real treat. It's an absolutely wonderful book. I listened to the audiobook and it felt like having Rageshri with me as I was pottering around the house doing my chores and as I was driving ...

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34:54

Prophet Song

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2025/02/04

Send us a text I was so glad to get to talk to GP Amy Fulton about Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. This is an astonishingly good dystopian fiction novel, which I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed. It's unusual to find a novel that really has you gripped, sucked into another world imagining something unimaginable and then brought back to earth again and again and again when you realise that this is fiction and of course this is not happening in Ireland where this book is set but that there is a...

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38:44

Aftershock

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2025/01/28

Send us a textI'd like to dedicate today's episode of Bedside Reading to Corporal Hugh Cunningham of the Royal Engineers. Hugh died in 2009 as a result of PTSD. And as I read Matthew Green's Aftershock: the Untold Story of Surviving Peace, I thought a lot about him and his family, as well as more widely about other military veterans affected by PTSD. I've really enjoyed my conversation with Manchester Portfolio GP Zalan Alam today. It is such an important book. I'm not going to li...

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38:07

Never Split the Difference

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2025/01/21

Send us a textI love coming back to books I've read in the past that I've half remembered and half forgotten and it's one of those episodes today. I'm delighted to welcome Sarah Marwick to Bedside Reading to talk about Never Split the Difference: negotiating as if your life depended on it by Chris Voss. This is such an accessible brilliant book written by a former FBI hostage negotiator. You may think, what on earth has hostage negotiation got to do with working in the and NHS? Actually...

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32:01

Age Proof

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2025/01/14

Send us a textI'm really pleased to welcome GP, lifestyle medicine expert and GP educator Anish Kotecha to Bedside Reading today. We are talking about a book called Age Proof by Rose Ann Kenny. You may be relieved to discover that when we say the science of aging, we are not talking about the science fiction of anti-aging and we're certainly not talking about chemicals or drugs or modifications of anything other than lifestyle. It was really good to talk to Anish about connection, about intim...

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34:02

How To Rise

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2025/01/07

Send us a textHappy New Year listeners! Have you made any New Year's resolutions? Have you decided that 2025 is the year where things are going to be different? Have you been thinking about boundaries? Or about well-being? Or about that hideous word resilience which is so misused by NHS managers and has come to be a bit of a dirty word when actually the concept is a really good one.Today, I'm delighted to be talking to Chrissie Mowbray and Karen Forshaw about their book, How to Rise: a Comple...

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26:31

Twixtmas Special 2024

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2024/12/31

Send us a textI've got a collaborative Twixtmas special coming up today. I've asked a number of friends of the podcast to tell us about their top read of 2024 and what they're most looking forward to reading in 2025. Thanks for joining me in 2024, and I'm looking forward to sharing plenty more books with you in 2025.Featured today are the voices and choices of:Sabina Dosani https://sabinadosani.com/ Leah Hazard https://www.leahhazard.co.uk/ Derek Ochiai https://twitter.com/DrDerekOchiai Helen...

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35:58

My Favourite Mistake

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2024/12/24

Send us a textI imagine there may be lots of listeners who are very familiar with Marion Keyes and the Walsh family so it was a great joy today to be talking to Rosie Shire about the latest in the Walsh family saga, My Favourite Mistake by Marion Keyes. There is some typical Marion Keyes in that you know that nothing really, really bad is ever going to happen, that the plot is going to keep you going as you go along and there's going to be nothing truly miserable.There's quite a lot of depth ...

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32:56

In the Dream House

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2024/12/17

Send us a textToday's book is one like nothing else I've ever read. It's a real treat to talk to liaison psychiatrist Amy Gledhill about In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Mercado. This is an extraordinary memoir. It is incredibly beautifully written and it is ostensibly about a controlling and abusive relationship with the complicating factor of being a queer relationship. There's much more to it than that. It is incredibly beautifully written, very very short chapters, so incredibly readabl...

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40:17

Own Your Period

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2024/12/10

Send us a textIt's a huge treat today to welcome Chella Quint OBE to Bedside Reading. Chella is a period activist and educator from Sheffield and she is the author of two absolutely wonderful books including Own Your Period: a fact-filled guide to period positivity which I think is quite possibly one of the best non-fiction books for young people that you could ever want to read. It is phenomenal for older people as well and for grown-ups, for doctors, for anybody, definitely definitely one t...

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34:19

The Outrun

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2024/12/03

Send us a textA warm welcome today to former GP and now headache specialist, Dr Janice Heath, who joins me today to talk about The Outrun, Amy Liptrot's memoir of alcoholism, addiction, recovery and living in Orkney. It's a really beautiful book which has been made into a very recent film starring Saoirse Ronan and the storytelling and the imagery in the book are absolutely stunning. (Janice has watched the film. I haven't yet. I've seen the trailers though and actually the images seem just a...

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38:32

Hope - Scottish Book Trust 2024

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2024/11/26

Send us a textIt's a welcome back today to psychiatrist Gill Patterson, who's here to talk about the Scottish Book Trust's Book Week Scotland publication of 2024, which is called Hope. This is a collection of true stories written by people from Scotland. The Scottish Book Trust produce 65,000 free copies of Hope which are available in Scotland or from the Scottish Book Trust website https://shop.scottishbooktrust.com/products/hope-book It was brilliant to talk to Gill both about her own ...

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