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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Rachel Clarke

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Palliative care doctor & campaigner Rachel Clarke, better known as @doctor_oxford on Twitter, is on this week's episode of Full Disclosure with James O'Brien. In her most recent book, ‘Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a time of Pandemic’, Dr Clarke writes what it was really like inside the NHS for patients, staff and families during the first wave of Covid-19. Rachel joins James on the day the UK reached 100,000 COVID related-deaths.

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0:00.0

With so many holiday homes on booking.com, there are so many Tina Faye's I could be.

0:04.7

I could book a beach house and be relaxed, Tina.

0:07.8

Could someone bring me everything, thank you?

0:10.7

I could book a ski cabin and be sporty, Tina.

0:13.6

I'm going to skip the black diamond and do the hot chocolate run.

0:17.1

Or maybe I'll book a villa in Italy and be Vespa Tina.

0:21.6

Do I look cool on it? Because I feel cool.

0:24.6

With so many holiday homes, you can book whoever you want to be.

0:28.0

Booking.com, booking. Yeah.

0:31.9

This is a global original podcast.

0:39.0

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project originally conceived as a way to

0:45.1

let me spend a little bit more time than is ordinarily available in a radio studio with

0:49.9

people that I find interesting, obviously during the successive lockdowns.

0:54.9

The model has morphed slightly, but I'm delighted to tell you that this week's guest is Rachel Clark,

1:01.5

perhaps better known on Twitter at least as Dr Oxford, but both the doctor and, I guess, it's fair to say, a campaigner.

1:10.7

And Rachel, normally there's an element of life and times to these encounters. both the doctor and, I guess it's fair to say, a campaigner.

1:14.8

And Rachel, normally there's an element of life and times to these encounters.

1:19.6

And then we get quite late on in the interview to what you've been up to most recently with you.

1:23.8

I suspect it's going to have to be the other way round because your new book.

1:32.2

Well, it's quite remarkable. It's an account of what you have experienced since the coronavirus began and you volunteered, I think, to move from your normal working palliative care at a

1:42.9

hospice into the emergency department of a major

1:45.8

hospital in Oxford. So I would begin, I suppose, by asking you why?

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