#161 Bringing the Joy back into Medicine with Professor Dame Clare Gerada

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Dr Rupy Aujla

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today I’m talking to Prof Dame Clare Gerada about enabling our doctors and nurses to flourish and how to reignite the passion and bring the joy back into medicine.

I learnt so much about Clare today. Her background living in Africa, her dad’s medical career and how she keeps going, working in the same practice for decades as well as her brave admission of how burnout affected her personally.

Professor Dame Clare Gerada has more than 35 years experience practising medicine, and has been a driving force behind efforts to provide more wellbeing support for NHS staff. As well as being the first female Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in 50 years, Clare has held leadership roles with the Department of Health and is on the Council of the British Medical Association.

Our chat covers:

What’s not working in the current system of care & how we rectify it
Open science and the pandemic
The constant blaming of GPs
Over-medicalisation
Her own experience with burnout
How uncaring the system is towards medical staff
Some tips to maintain joy and optimism
The limitations of resilience training and why the emphasis needs to be on changing the system rather than locating the problem in medical staff

Her book is Beneath the White coat.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of
0:05.6	The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream,
0:10.8	and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman
0:17.0	about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness
0:23.2	means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests
0:28.9	including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland
0:34.8	and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to
0:40.8	listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr's Kitchen. Recipes Health Lifestyle.
0:48.6	So I think this is the next era of professional working is where we have much better
0:55.5	working lives and much better choice about what we do. This idea doesn't happen to me, never
1:01.6	happen to me, you can't even take your wedding day off. And it's true because I haven't met
1:06.6	so unless they take gaps in working gaps so they cannot take guarantee that they can take their
1:16.0	wedding day off. Welcome to the Dr's Kitchen podcast.
1:20.4	To show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today.
1:31.0	I'm Dr. Rupi, your host, I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in
1:36.4	the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the
1:45.2	multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life.
1:54.6	Today I'm talking to Professor Dame Claire Gerrard about enabling our doctors and nurses
2:00.7	to flourish and how to reignite the passion and bring the joy back into medicine. I learned so
2:07.1	much about Claire today, her background living in Africa, her dad's medical career and how she keeps
2:13.3	going, working in the same practice for decades, as well as a brave admission of how burnout
2:20.7	affected her personally. Professor Dame Claire Gerrard has more than 35 years experience practicing
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