Naked Health is a podcast brought to you by Dr Penny Ward, a UK based GP. She aims to strip medicine back to basics, eliminating the need for you to turn to Google following your consultation. By speaking to people about their individual journeys, with a variety of diagnoses, she aims to answer the questions you may not have known to ask. Seen through the eyes of a doctor, using the voices of everyday people.
Naked Health
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Naked Health is a podcast brought to you by Dr Penny Ward, a UK based GP. She aims to strip medicine back to basics, eliminating the need for you to turn to Google following your consultation. By speaking to people about their individual journeys, with a variety of diagnoses, she aims to answer the questions you may not have known to ask. Seen through the eyes of a doctor, using the voices of everyday people.
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4/26/2020
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Recent Episodes
May 31, 2020
Lung Cancer: Live, Laugh, Breathe
In this episode we meet Heather, diagnosed with Stage 4 ALK +ve lung cancer at the age of 34. She has never smoked, she challenges the bias and stigma associated between lung cancer and smoking, the implicit association between the two. Is this why funding into lung cancer research is lower than other cancers, the idea it is somehow self-inflicted, preventable. Is this why people aren't speaking up about their stories and raised awareness, they feel guilt, shame, as if the finger ...
May 24, 2020
Cervical Cancer: Sophie's Rainbow
Did you know the majority of cervical cancer is due to a virus and nearly all cases are preventable? Cervical cancer, once the 4th most common cancer Worldwide, is now the 8th and the 19th most common in the U.K. Figures should be decreasing due to the increasingly sophisticated smear programme and the advent of the HPV vaccination, in fact 99.8% of cervical cancer cases are preventable. But here's the thing, we need to talk about it, increase awareness, go for our smear tests, no matter wha...
May 17, 2020
Bowel Cancer: Never Too Young
Is life a series of definitive points, events? Our journeys predestined? What then happens when we come across an unexpected fork, or twist, in the journey. Is this possible? Never, rarely, sometimes, always.....just like in the film we have to open to the possibility, to chance. As health professionals, whilst common conditions are common, uncommon conditions, unusual presentations are out there too. We need to be open to the possibility, to the chance. Patients come to see...
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