Dr Alex George: My Hardest Day In A&E, Family Suicide & Finding TRUE Purpose

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Alex George is a pure inspiration. That's one of the best ways I can describe him. He’s selfless, self aware and just an all round great guy. He grew up in Nantgaredig, a village near Carmarthen, Wales. He is the oldest of three children. George studied Medicine at the University of Exeter and went on to work in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Lewisham in London. In 2018, George appeared in the fourth series of the ITV2 reality dating series Love Island. Following the show, he returned to working part-time at Lewisham whilst also making regular media appearances speaking about mental health on ITV morning shows including Good Morning Britain, Lorraine and Loose Women. In 2019, George launched his podcast The Waiting Room with Dr Alex in which he interviews other healthcare professionals about topical health and wellbeing issues. In July 2020, George's youngest brother Llyr died by suicide. In January 2021, George launched a campaign requesting the UK Government prioritise mental health amongst children and adolescents. During Children's Mental Health Week in February 2021, George met with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who appointed George to the newly created position of Youth Mental Health Ambassador. In addition, George also became a member of the Mental Health in Education Action Group. This conversation has it all, its gripping, its open, it’s honest and it had me nearly in tears almost 3 or 4 times. I can’t express to you how selfless and down to earth this guy is but you’ll find that out from our conversation today. Follow Alex: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dralexgeorge Twitter - https://twitter.com/dralexgeorge Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've gone from 200 followers on Instagram to 1 million in nine weeks. I just had tasted the failure so much that I wanted that success.
0:08.0	One of the biggest things was going back to work. I went back to Aene. I am working in a position where I'm the recess department of a very
0:14.9	busy hospital in A&E in London. The brutality area with COVID is around 1%. I am seeing
0:20.8	that percentage of people who are the sickest to are in the hospital.
0:24.0	I could hear in his voice instantly that something really bad happened.
0:28.0	I just said straight away like who's dying?
0:30.0	It was weird the whole world like closed in and I can't explain it sounds very dramatically it was like almost a
0:34.4	spotlight came on to me that moment and I was like no it can't be I just couldn't believe it that's the thing about
0:39.8	suicide or you know what when these things happen it can happen or out of nowhere and
0:44.3	everyone around that person is that guilt that you carry I think forever.
0:48.3	Ask yourself honestly when is the last time you genuinely sat down I thought about what you want to do in life what
0:54.0	actually is your purpose what makes you happy and if you haven't done it in the last year
0:58.2	or so do it. We had a phone call again and she said it's back. I'm like what you mean is it the
1:04.9	cancer is back. What do you say to someone who is dying in the next couple of
1:08.7	weeks? What can you say? A lot of it's non-verbal. You have a hug and you just
1:14.3	share that moment, don't you? But when you walk out of that room, it's like,
1:15.8	wow, I'm not seeing her again. Dr Alex George, you may know him from Love Island, you may know him as one of the most well-known aene doctors in our country.
1:34.6	Well, you may know him as a government advisor to youth mental health,
1:38.8	appointed by Boris Johnson last year. Alex knows a whole lot about happiness, about the things that make
1:46.2	us unhappy and about how we should be living if you want to live a truly fulfilling life. In this conversation you'll come to realize that we are so far away
1:56.3	from how we should be living and that in order to get there we might have to redesign the
2:01.2	entirety of the society we live in. That's a belief that I have. This
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