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Inside Health

GP Records, Serotonin & how we get cancer

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to see your GP records at the touch of a button? That’s the plan in England, but doctors warn us freely opening them up to everyone is not safe. And we’ll explore a study that’s transforming our understanding of how cancers develop and bring clarity to the confusion around antidepressants after a study showed low serotonin levels were not the cause of depression.

PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down.

0:23.0

And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina.

0:26.9

I'm excited.

0:27.6

You're dead to me.

0:28.5

The comedy podcast that takes history seriously.

0:30.9

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:34.5

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0:38.1

Hello there and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Gallagher.

0:41.9

Now, we're going to explore a transformative discovery about how cancers develop

0:46.1

and bring some much-needed clarity to the confusion around a common form of antidepressant.

0:51.9

But first, I want you to meet Pam, because she's something

0:55.4

of a pioneer. I'm 74 now. I have a complex medical history. So being able to loop on medical records,

1:05.8

I feel very fortunate. And to be honest, because I've had it for so long I thought by now everybody must have it

1:12.8

and now technology is advanced me included I can look at it on my phone as well I'm pressing on

1:20.5

the app and I'm just waiting now for it to come through view my medical records so I've got a choice now. Consultations,

1:30.1

medications, immunizations, results and letters. So if I want to say about medications,

1:39.1

an order of prescription, I can just tap on medication and they send it through to the chemists.

1:46.1

And so I'm in control of my own health.

1:49.2

Well, that's Pam.

1:50.2

But if you or I want to see our GP medical records, well, quite frankly, it can be a bit of a pain.

1:55.2

We've got to go through the process of requesting them and then waiting for them to be prepared.

2:00.3

But Pam has instant access literally at her fingertips

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