Dr Google; Sexual orientation and the NHS; Hypermobility; Surgery for COPD
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
GPs have been told to ask about their patients' sexual orientation as NHS England plans to record this data for everyone using the service over the age of 16. Dr Google - are doctors' noses really being put out of joint by patients searching their symptoms on the internet to come up with their own diagnoses? Hypermobility is being double jointed and flexible and is often perceived as an asset, but for around 1 in 30 of the population it can be a problem that is often missed - and mismanaged. Plus a counterintuitive approach to help people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. You might think the last thing someone with breathing difficulties needs is smaller lungs, but lung reduction surgery is exactly what's being offered some people with COPD.
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| 0:29.4 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:32.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.1 | Coming up today, Dr. Google. |
| 0:35.6 | Our doctor's noses being put out of joint by patients googling their |
| 0:39.5 | symptoms to come up with their own diagnoses. Lung reduction surgery, a counterintuitive approach |
| 0:46.4 | that could help as many as 20,000 people in the UK with breathlessness due to chronic |
| 0:51.6 | obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, |
| 0:54.8 | and it can have dramatic results. |
| 0:57.1 | Prior to the procedure, I couldn't do things like the ironing. |
| 1:00.6 | You know, it was struggling. |
| 1:01.6 | So ironing, gardening, walking to the shops was becoming quite a struggle. |
| 1:06.9 | I was using ambulatory oxygen for just about everything. |
| 1:10.6 | And now I only use it when I go to the gym. |
| 1:13.5 | And hypermobility, being double-jointed and flexible, |
| 1:17.2 | is often perceived as an asset, |
| 1:19.3 | but for around one in 30 of the population, it can be a problem, |
| 1:23.7 | and one that's often missed and mismanaged. |
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