The Reith Lectures

[Barnclown]

Heroic brilliant Dr Atul Gawande is on BBC 4 radio right now giving his first Reith Lecture on why doctors fail

Listen if you can...and catch his further 3 Reith Lectures

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What were his other topics?

[Barnclown in reply to Hidden]

Shazzer, I think he'll stay with medicine for all 4 Reith lectures (BBC radio 4, Tuesday's @9), but he is a deep yet practical thinker, and such a great humanist that his commentary is always as broad as life. He has written some of the v finest & most constructive contemporary critiques of medicine in our time. And he is being listened to, which makes me feel more hopeful for our future & the future of our young.

you can get these lectures via podcast off the BBC radio 4 site

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Thanks! Will have a listen. Not at work at the minute so glad to have some sort of outside stimulus!

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I heard a bit this morning and my husband told me I must listen properly tonight before my long awaited neurology appointment tomorrow - thanks for the reminder Barnclown I'm rather looking forward to it after the snippet I caught today! Tx

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You're vvv welcome. His books are WONDERFUL...and his New Yorker articles (most of which are incorporated in his books). Maybe you've read his stuff too

Best wishes (a bouquet-full!) to you twitchy...hope all goes constructively tomorrow! And hope you'll let us know how you get on...in plenty of detail: am counting on you

XO

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Good luck tomorrow, Twitch!

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Oh yeah, I read about that, thanks for the reminder!

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I haven't read his work at all but am really looking forward to listening to this lecture on iplayer now - afterwards I'm going to take a sleeping pill and hope to conk out for most of the night as my flight leaves at dawn tomorrow and I haven't slept since I stopped all meds over two weeks ago now.

Thanks so much for your good wishes both of you - it means a lot to me. Txx

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Hope you get some good shut-eye

Take care & good luck

XO

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Good luck tomorrow Twitchy, will be thinking about you.

Barnclown, there is a medical blog called A better NHS, the standard of writing is excellent and it's very thought provoking. They blogged today about Dr Gawande's latest book, also a Dr Margaret Mcartney who is well worth checking out.

Will catch up with the lectures on I player, thank you.

[Barnclown]

Thanks Keyes: will check that blog out!