122. Trust Me I'm a Doctor

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ian Patterson was a sought after breast surgeon and patron of a charity supporting people with cancer, now he’s in prison.

He was sentenced to 20 years in 2017 for carrying out unnecessary and unapproved procedures.

Hosts Amber Haque and Dr Julia Shaw discuss the psychology of medical encounters and the prevalence of narcissism amongst surgeons.

Producer: Rachel Oakes Executive Producers: Innes Bowen and Joe Kent Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey Mix Engineer: John Scott Assistant Commissioners: Izzy Lee-Poulton and Sarah Green Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins

Bad People is a BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds.

Transcript

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?
0:21.3	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.1	I wouldn't even know where to start.
0:26.7	And I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.8	You're listening to Bad People.
0:39.1	The podcast about the bad things people do and why.
0:42.2	This episode of Bad People contains details which some people might find disturbing.
0:49.4	Julia.
0:50.7	Hello.
0:51.7	Sorry, that was my best creeper voice.
0:53.9	I feel like you nailed it. Did I pull it off?
0:56.0	You did. Although you do look too cute to be a creep. Thank you. We try. We try. It's a bit sort of wet outside.
1:03.4	Typical moody Mancunian day outside our studio setting the scene for us to dig into the shadiest corners of humanity.
1:10.9	That's what we're here for.
1:11.9	Yeah, let's give the people what they want.
1:13.6	So listen, before we go to the dark side, I wanted to have a little chimwag with you about
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