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Inside Health

How to defeat needle phobia and football and lateral flow tests.

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Inside Health podcast is back with a bang!

Find out how having a couple of mates round for the football trapped scientist Alex Crozier inside a Covid experiment.

Laura talks us through her remarkable journey, from a fear of needles to having her Covid jab, and Oxford University’s Daniel Freeman has some tips for you too.

We’ve unleashed our cardiologist, Rohin Francis, for the first of his “Roving Rohin” (trademark pending) reports on hospital staff who don’t get the vaccine. And GP Navjoyt Ladher shares her insight on where we’re at with the pandemic. Happy listening.

PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCERS: Beth Eastwood & Geraldine Fitzgerald

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,

0:05.4

The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's

0:10.6

Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials

0:16.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommasash Ranganathan. However, and maybe I'm biased,

0:21.9

it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

0:24.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts,

0:27.4

listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:30.8

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:34.4

There was an intense nausea and trembling.

0:55.1

And with your fight or flight mode, every instinct in your body is saying to you, this is not going to be good. You don't want to do this. And you are trying to fight against that. So it's a bit like saying to somebody, you know, step out in front that bus. Every instinct in the body is going, why am I going to do that? That's ridiculous. I'm going to end up being injured.

1:11.6

And that's effectively what the phobia is doing to you. You need to step away from that. So you're fighting every instinct in your body. There's times as well I felt quite stupid. No one enjoys going to have injections. But it's like, why can't I do this? Laura's definitely had it tough, but I can tell what you're thinking.

1:11.5

You're asking, what has this got to do with the vaccination program? I do this. Laura's definitely had it tough, but I can tell what you're thinking.

1:28.3

You're asking, what has this got to do with the vaccination program? Well, you can find out towards the end of the Inside Health podcast, or if you're a cheetah, you can scroll through the rest of the program until about 20 minutes and then you'll find the answers, but you don't know what you'll be missing. But first, it has been a while since our last pod and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

1:30.8

I, for one, you don't know what you'll be missing. But first, it has been a while since our last pod,

1:28.5

and we've got a lot of catching up to do. I, for one, have moved house. I am still going through

1:33.6

the trauma of that and just still lipping out of boxes, even though it happened a month ago.

1:37.8

I hope all of you listening are well at home. But we're going to have to talk about COVID.

1:43.3

When have we not talked about COVID for the

1:45.3

past 18 months? We've got Navjoy, Lada, who's a GP to help us catch up. And she's also been

1:51.4

promoted at the British Medical Journal to now UK Research Editor. Congratulations.

1:56.5

Thank you, James. So it's great to have you back on, and we're going to throw you straight into

2:00.3

the deep end, because, you know, we've talked to all this time about the race between the virus and the vaccine. Some up for me where we are now.

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