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WIDLIMS #24 – Tips for new doctors from a new doctor
Hello listeners and readers, and welcome back for another solo episode. My name is Linda (she/her) and I am working as a junior doctor. I started this podcast in the summer of 2020 while I was a medical student, and it covers all things not covered in medical school. I normally focus on health and illness, but it is important to consider those who try to improve health as well – i.e. doctors and healthcare professionals! This is an episode with tips for new junior doctors/FY1/F1 doctors in the UK! Listen to the episode below, but be sure to scroll down and read more about the different topics and find…
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WIDLIMS ep #15 – Time for Plant-based Nutrition in Medicine with Dr Shireen Kassam
In this week's episode, I chat to the amazing Dr Shireen Kassam (she/her) who is a consultant haematologist, as well as founder and president of Plant-Based Health Professionals (a CIC in the UK) and facilitator of the UK's first university-based Plant-based nutrition course (and she regularly reviews and updates it!). We talk about... why plant-based nutrition education is needed the evidence behind consuming more plants and less animal products how she counsels her patients, including those recently diagnosed with cancer, to make lifestyle changes wider issues: human and planetary health, social inequalities, the NHS and some of the problems with how our governments and healthcare systems are structured Find out…