Hello and a very big welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast. I'm your host as always, Dr. Hazel Wallace.

I'm a medical doctor, a registered associate nutritionist, an author and founder of the Food Medic.

So this is our final episode of Season 4. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. I know it was slightly different than before in

terms of the recording and also the content. But I think for me, this may have been my

favorite season so far. And I think we're going out on a big hit with this final guest.

So today I have Amalie joining me. And she is a junior doctor and co-host of

the podcast Life After the Letters. She studied medicine at the University of Manchester and also completed

a master's degree there in healthcare ethics and law. Having taken two years out of training to do

local work and explore other interests,

Emily will be resuming training in paediatrics from September. Her interests lie strongly in

health inequalities, culture change and communications. Myself and Emily met a couple of years ago

through a blogging job and we instantly connected and stayed in touch.

And I featured on her podcast also.

So on this episode, we chat about life as a junior doctor, what to expect for all

our new doctors starting in August, taking less conventional routes in training,

juggling side projects along medicine, supporting your mental health and your colleagues,

and also racism in the NHS. I absolutely loved this episode. It just felt like I was catching up

with an old friend, but we also cover some really important topics. So I hope you enjoyed it

as much as I did recording it. So I guess just to start off, it would be really

lovely for you to kind of, in your own words, explain briefly who you are, what you do.

Yeah, so I graduated from Manchester Med School in 2016, which feels so long ago, but actually it was only four years

ago. So since I graduated, I came to work in North London. Oh, no, I worked in Baddleton first,

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