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An approach to nausea and vomiting in palliative care
Dr. Lisa Adams and Dr. Sara MacDermott interview Palliative Care Consultants Dr. Cat Barrat Ayres and Dr. Cat MacDermott about assessing and managing nausea and vomiting in palliative patients, offering practical prescribing tips.
2 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The value of lifestyle medicine in general practice
Doctors Lisa Adams and Sara MacDermott interview Dr. Lydia Vogelaar-Kelly about integrating lifestyle medicine into general practice, offering insights into its value and application.
8 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tips for listening, and how to avoid dismissing young women
In this really interesting episode, Doctors Lisa and Sara talk to Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan - Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine, and Dr Laura Tinner - Research Fellow in Centre for Public Health, at Bristol University. Rageshri talks about her lived experience of being dismissed in a medical situation, despite her professional background and how this led to her researching the topic in depth, and writing a book on the subject. Laura speaks to a piece of research she carried out around the views of young women accessing medical care and explains that we need to put more emphasis on listening in healthcare. They both talk to the system pressures and challenges that lead to patients feeling dismissed, but also share practical advice and tips for what healthcare professionals can do to help certain groups of people feel more heard in healthcare.
You can use these podcasts as part of your CPD - we don’t do certificates but they still count :)
Resources:
Unheard - The Medical Practice of Silencing by Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan: https://amzn.eu/d/03u4y1DX
Animation about a young women’s experience of healthcare accessible through the embedded link on this site: https://ayph.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/SHIFT-Improving-young-womens-care-resource-sheet.pdf
The Association for Young People’s Health: https://ayph.org.uk/
The Young Women’s Movement: https://youngwomenscot.org/
Training session: Enquiries taken by Association for Young People’s Health who have a 90-minute training course to healthcare professionals. It’s co-delivered by young women who have been trained in facilitation skills and can be booked by groups of healthcare professionals who would benefit from training support related to delivering care to young women. The training uses the animation pillars to go through scenarios and exercises. Cost is dependent on whether delivered online or in person and whether any bespoke elements need to be included, but please get in touch to discuss what could work for you. Contact AYPH for more info: info@youngpeopleshealth.org.uk
The Young Women’s Movement: EmBody to EmPower: https://youngwomenscot.org/resources/embody-to-empower/
Intersectional discrimination and mental health inequalities: a qualitative study of young women’s experiences in Scotland: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-024-02133-3#citeas
An exploration of discrimination in healthcare for young women in Scotland: An intersectional study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321525000125
Fighting the “Bog Standard”: Intersectional experiences of gender and disability discrimination within healthcare among women in Scotland: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321526000119
Women's experiences of discrimination and the impact on health: https://www.gov.scot/publications/womens-experiences-discrimination-impact-health/
Reflect, collaborate, and listen: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00251-X/abstract
Listening is a tool for health equity, not just a soft skill: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1164.long
Listening to the voices of the medically silenced: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0003761
Scotland’s Women’s Health Plan: Phase Two: https://www.gov.scot/publications/womens-health-plan-phase-two-2026-2029/
Dr Jonathon Tomlinson’s blog : https://abetternhs.net/about/
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An approach to nausea and vomiting in palliative care
Published 22 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, always trying to reverse the reversible, trying to work out the cause, what symptoms they have, and then directing the treatment towards that. So, you know, in general, you can either speed up the gut or paralyze the gut or have little influence on the gut. And that's the three main kind of approaches, I think, towards nausea and vomiting. You would need to consider, you know, do you give the treatment orally or do you give it usually subcutaneously, you know, as an alternative route? And if somebody's in bowel obstruction, we would often be advocating giving things by the subcutaneous route. […]
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