Inside the Covid Crisis
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this special episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea are joined by Dr Phil Whitaker, a GP and the New Statesman's health columnist, to get his perspective from the long months inside the covid crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. |
| 0:08.7 | Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas, and there's too often a a postcode lottery when it comes to that |
| 0:14.8 | all important early diagnosis. The New Statesman podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research |
| 0:21.0 | intensive global bio-pharmaceutical company active in several key areas of global health |
| 0:26.4 | including immunization and oncology. They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman Podcast in which thought leaders explore |
| 0:34.7 | how the UK can and must tackle health inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment. |
| 0:41.5 | Listen to the episode now. |
| 0:43.0 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman Podcast feed. |
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| 1:32.0 | To find out more, search Barclays communities. On this week's new statesman podcast we're joined by our health columnist and |
| 1:50.8 | gee P. Dr. Phil Whitaker to discuss his experiences of the pandemic. |
| 1:57.0 | So for this special episode of the New Statesman podcast we're delighted to be joined by Dr. Phil Whitaker, a GP based in Radstock, Somerset and the New Statesman's health columnist. |
| 2:11.0 | During the pandemic, Phil's been one of our key voices telling us what's going on on the front line, and he's been writing about everything from the crisis in care homes to the long-term symptoms of COVID-19 that some of his patients are experiencing. |
| 2:23.0 | Now in one of your columns over the summer, Phil, I think you finally managed to get a break away from surgery. |
| 2:29.0 | You wrote about looking back to the beginning of the pandemic and you remember realizing that you'd |
| 2:34.4 | encountered your first patient with COVID-19 and you hadn't had any PPE on then and you'd |
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