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Standard Issue Podcast

The Cost of Trust

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed in 2017 for conducting botched and often unnecessary operations on his patients, who were predominantly women. Hannah chats to Deborah Douglas and Tracy King about their new book, The Cost of Trust: The Butcher Surgeon and the Scandal that Shamed British Medicine, their experiences of being "cared for" by Paterson and the battle to ensure it can't happen again. This episode contains some pretty graphic descriptions of surgery You can buy The Cost of Trust here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cost-of-trust/deborah-douglas/tracy-king/9780008712938 To hear the full interview, join the Patreon supporter gang here: Standard Issue Podcast | creating a magazine for ears, by women for women | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.

0:04.0

We're having a baby.

0:06.0

We're having a baby.

0:07.0

I've always wanted to be mom.

0:09.0

And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.

0:12.0

I have no idea what we're doing.

0:13.0

Thank you. I have more of an idea.

0:15.0

I think of it like a Tamagocchi.

0:17.0

At the end of all of this...

0:20.0

We're going to have a little baby raising chalcy a hulu original series

0:24.7

streaming exclusively on disney plus 18 plus subscription required tis and t supply standard issue for all

0:31.9

women hello hannah here and welcome to friday's podcast i'm looking forward to four days off work now. I hope that you are too.

0:40.5

If not, if you are having to work over the weekend, here's something you can look forward to next week.

0:46.6

Loads of podcasts, including Mickey chatting with author, Scummy Mummy and Marathon Junkie, Helen Soren, about her new lasagna of a book,

0:58.9

How to Face Big Change and Come Back Stronger.

1:02.3

Mickey assures me the lasagna reference will make sense when you listen to the interview.

1:08.6

Also, I'm going to be chatting to Flora Wilson Brown about her new stage

1:13.7

adaptation of Virginia Woolf's The Waves. But what about today's podcast? Well, it's a goodie. And

1:22.2

if you're one of the good people who support us on Patreon, it's going to be a long end, too. In it, I am speaking to

1:31.0

Deborah Douglas and Tracy King, who together have written an excellent new book, The Cost of Trust,

1:38.0

the butcher surgeon and the scandal that shamed British medicine. Both of them were operated on by Ian Patterson, who was jailed in 2017, after being convicted

1:49.7

of wounding patients by way of botched and unnecessary operations.

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