x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

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:

health & fitness medicine

All Episodes

43:55

The Butterfly House

Bedside Reading ·

2024/09/17

Send us a textIt's a first on bedside reading today in that I've got three guests rather than my customary one and occasional two. I am delighted to welcome to the podcast Beth Osmond, Eleanor Holmes and Sarah Raybould, three doctors who are also published poets. We are going to be talking today about Kathryn Bevis's beautiful collection, The Butterfly House, which on the cover is described as "the story of a life before and after a late stage cancer diagnosis". In the podcast today, we've ch...

en-gb

40:03

Girl Unmasked

Bedside Reading ·

2024/09/10

Send us a textI am so delighted to be talking to Emily Katy, the author of Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life. I love talking to authors. I'm always fascinated to be talking to authors who are also health professionals. Emily is both: a psychiatric nurse and a writer. I've been following Emily on social media for quite a while, I was really excited when her book came out to see what it was going to be like because I'd read her blog and I'd seen a lot of other articles that ...

en-gb

34:44

Fighting for the soul of General Practice

Bedside Reading ·

2024/09/03

Send us a textI've got two brilliant guests with me to today, Roo Shah and Jens Foell, who have written a phenomenal book called Fighting for the Soul of General Practice: the Aagorithm will see you now. This is a wonderful book, two GPs, one based in London, one based in rural North Wales writing about patient stories and the values of relational medicine, thinking about what we are at risk of losing as we try wholly appropriately to manage demand, to keep services running when there i...

en-gb

34:18

Heart

Bedside Reading ·

2024/08/27

Send us a Text Message.A warm welcome back today to James Thambirajah, who is here to talk to me about a book called Heart, a History by Sandip Jauhar. This is, I will confess, a book that I probably might not have picked up voluntarily but James is very persuasive, and I'm really glad I did pick it up, because once I had I was absolutely compelled to keep reading. Sandip Jawa is a wonderful writer. He's a cardiologist based in the USA. And this interweaves stories, stories of peo...

en-gb

35:07

Strange Sally Diamond

Bedside Reading ·

2024/08/20

Send us a Text Message.It's a warm welcome back to a guest today. I'm delighted to be talking to Susan Matthew about Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent. Susan came on the podcast a couple of years ago and I got an email from her out of the blue recently saying, "I've just read this book, it's absolutely brilliant, I think you'd really like it and I really need to talk about it on the podcast" and I was really quite intrigued. I picked it up and it said on the cover that it was a crime novel ...

en-gb

34:35

Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions

Bedside Reading ·

2024/08/13

Send us a Text Message.Regular listeners will know that I love talking to writers and I love poetry. So what a joy it is today to welcome Anna Davidson to Bedside Reading to talk about her debut poetry collection: Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions. Anna's poems are absolutely beautiful. It's a very beautiful little book, it's got a gorgeous cover and the contents, both the poems and the writing around the poems and the sense of why Anna wrote these poems, what they mean for her and...

en-gb

34:44

Turn the Ship Around

Bedside Reading ·

2024/08/06

Send us a Text Message.A warm welcome back to GP, educator and YouTube sensation, Dave Hindmarsh. Today we are going to be talking about Turn the Ship Around, which is a really interesting book about leadership. Don't switch off if you're not interested in leadership, there is so much here that is transferable. And the thing I really enjoyed about To Turn the Ship Around is that it is not a book that is telling you what to do. It is somebody reflecting on their own experiences, somebody think...

en-gb

36:15

Elizabeth is Missing

Bedside Reading ·

2024/07/30

Send us a Text Message.A warm welcome today to podcast legend and all round inspiration Dr Rachel Morris. Rachel is best known for hosting her own phenomenal podcast You Are Not A Frog https://youarenotafrog.com/ which helps people work smarter, beat burnout, think more and overthink less. Rachel is also a speaker, coach and former GP.Find Rachel's coaching business Wild Monday here: https://www.wildmonday.co.uk/We are talking about Elizabeth is Missing the wonderful novel by Emma...

en-gb

37:16

Covenant of Water

Bedside Reading ·

2024/07/23

Send us a Text Message.I've got a cracking episode coming up for you today. I'm delighted to be joined by Joe Thomas, a hospitalist, from Buffalo in New York to talk about the Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. I loved Abraham Verghese first novel Cutting for Stone more than I can begin to tell you and it's a book that's got a special place in my heart because it was the first book that we read as part of the medical humanities book club and which I set up twelve years ago and which is st...

en-gb

36:13

Shy

Bedside Reading ·

2024/07/16

Send us a Text Message.Today's episode is all about a very short and very powerful novel by Max Porter, Shy. In 122 pages Max Porter inhabits the mind of a very troubled teenage boy called Shy. Nicola Ennis, my guest, and I both have quite significant life experiences of working with children and young people think that this is probably the best insight into the mind of a troubled teenage boy that you could possibly wish to have. It is quite dark. It's also funny. It's just an inc...

en-gb

38:32

Books to inspire your clinical career

Bedside Reading ·

2024/07/08

Send us a Text Message.A warm welcome back to a previous guest today. It's a real joy to be talking to Professor Ellie Hothersall-Davis from the University of Dundee. We have come up with today six books which we think would be really, really good as reading material before starting a medical degree.Maybe people listening who have got children or godchildren or nieces or nephews or next door neighbours who are planning to become doctors. Arguably actually perhaps becoming any sort of he...

en-gb

33:24

Clytemnestra's Bind

Bedside Reading ·

2024/07/02

Send us a Text Message.A warm welcome back today to Victoria Kinkaid who's here to talk about Clytemnestra's bind by Susan C Wilson. This is a modern retelling of a story from Greek mythology that of Queen Clytemenestra , unwilling wife of Agamemnon. I really enjoyed my conversation with Victoria. If you've not come across her before he has been on the podcast before and she was here last year talking about a brilliant nonfiction title Half the Sky. Today we are talking fict...

en-gb

34:17

The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr

Bedside Reading ·

2024/06/25

Send us a Text Message.It's a warm welcome back today to Lizz Lidbury who joins me to talk about The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr. This is such an accessible brilliant book. It's described in a lot of reviews as being for people who loved Eleanor Oliphant and I admit I did love Eleanor Oliphant but I'm not convinced that it is so similar to Eleanor Oliphant to need to be pigeonholed in that way.Lizz and I have had a really enjoyable time talking about it thinking about the characters ...

en-gb

39:42

Pessimism is for lightweights

Bedside Reading ·

2024/06/18

Send us a Text Message.It's a welcome back for my guest this week! I'm delighted to have Jo Maher GP and active travel enthusiast from Sheffield one the podcast to talk about Selena Goddon's fabulous collection Pessimism is for Lightweights. Jo and I had a great conversation about how much we love these poems. We talk about activism. We talk about the tension that there sometimes is as a healthcare professional around "are we allowed to be activists" (the answer to that question i...

en-gb

35:12

The Panopticon

Bedside Reading ·

2024/06/11

Joining me today on the podcast is forensic psychiatrist Gill Patterson and we are talking about The Panopticon by Jenny Fagan. This is an absolutely brilliant book which I read in a day on holiday. There are many themes which are quite dark, quite thought provoking and I think Anais, the central character, will stay with me for a very very long time. Gill and I talk about forensic services, especially forensic services for women. We talk about adverse life experiences we tal...

en-gb

35:06

Women's Prize for Fiction - Shortlist

Bedside Reading ·

2024/06/04

Welcome to Season 7 !!!!! I am so excited to launch this new season with an episode which is all about the Women's Prize shortlist. I'm delighted to welcome book-tuber Sarah Cubitt to Bedside Reading. Sarah has a wonderful YouTube book channel called Your True Shelf. https://www.youtube.com/c/yourtrueshelf Sarah and I are talking about the 6 books which have made this year's Women's Prize shortlist. The prize winner is announced on June 13th so if you ...

en-gb

38:38

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Bedside Reading ·

2024/05/28

It's a first today and that is my first medical student guest on the podcast!! A huge welcome to Omar Al-Rubaie, a third year medical student at the University Of Sheffield who is here to talk about The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It's a first also because this is the first Douglas Adams I've ever read. I'd been aware of Hitchhiker's Guide for a very long time and I had never read it. I confess, I had never wanted to read it and as I was reading it in preparation for the podc...

en-gb

37:39

Microskills

Bedside Reading ·

2024/05/21

It's an absolute joy today to welcome Dr Adaira Landry and Dr Resa Lewiss to Bedside Reading. They have written an absolutely phenomenal book which is called Microskills: small actions big impact. The tagline for the book is "buy this book on Friday be better at your job on Monday" and I think that this claim really really does live up to the hype. This is a brilliantly accessible book. It is so practical. It is so readable. It has the potential to change anyone's work life and possibly even ...

en-gb

36:41

Unnatural Causes

Bedside Reading ·

2024/05/14

A warm welcome today to Jordan Napier Morrow, staff development lead in the School of Medicine at Dundee University. We are talking about Richard's Shepherd's brilliant book Unnatural causes which is a memoir of one of Britain's most high profile forensic pathologists. There is an enormous amount in this book to take away: stories of cases we may have heard of, cases we won't have heard of but also interwoven is Richard Shepherd's own story how he became a pathologist, the impact of being a p...

en-gb

35:31

The Queen of Dirt Island

Bedside Reading ·

2024/05/07

A warm welcome today to Dani Hall who is here to talk about Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island . This is a book that I'd heard quite a lot about and not picked up until Dani suggested that I ought to read it. I started reading and had to text her after about 5 minutes to say "oh my goodness this is so good, why haven't I picked this up before?" so I really hope you're going to enjoy our conversation today. The book tells the story of four generations of women in a family in Ire...

en-gb

206 results

Similar Podcasts

Доктор Тройняшкин

Доктор Тройняшкин

The Dry Eye Treatment PODCAST

Dry Eye Treatment

Différent et alors ?

PATRICK SULAY

Kyle Kingsbury Podcast

Kyle Kingsbury

The Real Weight Loss Coach

Matty Lansdown