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Inside Health

Medical language, chemo brain & heatwaves

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Does medicine have a language problem? We speak to Rachel who was made to feel like a 'naughty schoolgirl' by the terminology used around the birth of her child. We’ll find out how deep-seated blaming and belittling language in healthcare is, and why. We get sticky and sweaty discussing the dangers of heatwaves to the human body. And we take the confusion out of 'chemo brain' or cancer-related cognitive impairment, and explore why we rarely talk about it and how this is now changing.

Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Beth Eastwood

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:24.3

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0:30.5

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0:35.6

Hello and welcome to a sticky and sweaty Inside health podcast with me James Gallagher.

0:40.3

There's a welcoming thought for you, isn't it?

0:43.3

I'm actually on my way into the building here in Central Hunter.

0:46.3

You can really feel it bouncing off the pavement in front of you.

0:49.3

And it's only going to get hotter.

0:51.3

So we'll be discussing the heat wave this episode, as well as the term

0:54.7

chemo brain. Is it really misleading and do we need to think about it again? And also, is medical

1:00.0

language just blaming and belittling us the people who are being treated? We've got a fascinating

1:05.8

discussion on that. But as soon as I'm in the call, I'm going to chat to Dr. Navjoit Lada,

1:10.0

GP and clinical editor at the British Medical Journal, about how we cope in this sticky heat. Hello, Navjoit. Hi, James. So how are you coping? Because I've not been doing well. No, me either. I've got my fan on. I've got some water. That seems to be helping, but feeling very warm. So it's a bit of a weird

1:29.2

one at the moment, isn't it? Because for so long, we've celebrated the heat. It's like the one weekend of the year we get the barbecue out. But actually, the tone's changed recently, hasn't it? We've been far more concerned about temperatures in this country. Yeah, I think we're seeing more prolonged stretches of hot weather and the data suggesting that temperatures are trending up

1:46.2

over time. So we're seeing more prolonged stretches of hot weather and the data suggesting

1:44.6

that temperatures are trending up over time. So we're a bit more worried about extreme heat,

1:49.9

which can be quite harmful to health. So what are the top inside health tips for coping this week?

1:56.3

Are you going to tell me to drink plenty of water? I'm absolutely going to tell you to drink

2:00.3

plenty of fluids. Cold drinks are best, avoid excess alcohol. I know that often we say that those urine charts are not very helpful, but when it's very hot, at least paying attention to make sure that your urine is not very dark, like apple juice coloured. That can be a sign that you need to be drinking more. And then all the other stuff,

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