Bedside Reading
A medical humanities podcast for bibliophile health care professionals 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 Twitter @bedsidepodcast or instagram @bedsidereadingpodcast. If you'd like to recommend a book or to come on the podcast as a guest please email: bedsidereadingpodcast@gmail.com. Episodes hosted by Tara George, edited by Levi Gee
Episodes
146 episodes since 2021
The Butterfly House
It'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 p...
September 16, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 16
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43:55
Girl Unmasked
I 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 ...
September 09, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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40:03
Fighting for the soul of General Practice
I'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 Algorithm will see you now. This is a wonderful book, two GPs, one based ...
September 02, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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34:44
Heart
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 persuasi...
August 26, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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34:18
Strange Sally Diamond
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...
August 19, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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35:07
Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions
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...
August 12, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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34:35
Turn the Ship Around
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 leader...
August 05, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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34:44
Elizabeth is Missing
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 ...
July 29, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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36:15
Covenant of Water
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
July 22, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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37:16
Shy
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 lif...
July 15, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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36:13
Books to inspire your clinical career
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 readin...
July 08, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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38:32
Clytemnestra's Bind
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. ...
July 01, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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33:24
The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr
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 Oli...
June 24, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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34:17
Pessimism is for lightweights
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. ...
June 17, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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39:42
The Panopticon
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 ar...
June 10, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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35:12
Women's Prize for Fiction - Shortlist
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 wonder...
June 03, 2024
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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35:06
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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...
May 27, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 21
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38:38
Microskills
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 t...
May 20, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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37:39
Unnatural Causes
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 p...
May 13, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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36:41
The Queen of Dirt Island
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...
May 06, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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35:31
Leadership Special Episode
Today is a special episode of the podcast where I'm welcoming friends, leaders from all sorts of branches of healthcare to share a book that means something to them about leadership. We would like to dedicate this episode to the memory ...
April 29, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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38:34
Unwell Women
It's a real honour today to welcome Professor Chloe Orkin to Bedside Reading . Chloe is a researcher, an HIV specialist, a doctor, and an unwell woman and we talk about what that means in the context of Eleanor Cleghorn's brilliant bo...
April 22, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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37:14
The Right Kind of Wrong
A warm welcome today to Ben Allen, a GP from Sheffield who is here to talk to me about Amy Edmondson's second book The Right Kind of Wrong which is all about celebrating and learning from failure. Failure is something that health c...
April 15, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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37:54
Womb
As many regular listeners may know I absolutely love talking to authors about their books, especially healthcare professional authors and today is one of those episodes.I am so delighted to welcome Leah Hazard to the podcast to talk...
April 08, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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39:09
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
It's a joy today to welcome back Kirsty Shires to Bedside Reading. Kirsty and I first connected last year over Michael Rosen's Many Different Kinds of Love and she emailed me a few weeks ago to tell me about a book that she thought...
April 01, 2024
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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33:29