
The BMJ Podcast
Hosted by Kamran Abbasi · The BMJ
4.4from 78 ratings
- 1,066
- Episodes
- 87
- Transcribed
- 78
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
About The BMJ Podcast
The BMJ brings you interviews with the people who are shaping medicine and science around the world.
- Publisher
- The BMJ
- Category
- health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 Aug 2013
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
87 of 1,066 episodes have a transcript.

18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Risk, uncertainty, and medical decision-making - Professor Chris Whitty

11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Food industry nutrition advisor conflicts, and regulation of healthcare AI

4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Now is a golden opportunity to change primary care
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Risk, uncertainty, and medical decision-making - Professor Chris Whitty
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So we can... and we should and people in this room have the capability in my view change our current direction of travel on risk holding to push some of it back in a very structured safe and supported way to a situation where people accrue their risk holding through their early medical career and indeed on through their early consultant or GP principal career. In my view it should be continuous gradual and managed, and those seem to me much more useful than how these sudden steps up, which we've currently exposed people to. We should be systematic about it, and we should also recognise that many other medical and nursing and allied health professionals hold risk, but it has always been the case that doctors hold by far the most risk, and in my view always will be, and since that's the point of doctors. […]
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- Chris Whitty
- Chris Van Tulleken
- Alastair Denniston
- Henrietta Hughes
- Victoria Tzortziou Brown
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 32 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 46 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100
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- Quality
- 84
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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Who hosts The BMJ Podcast?
Kamran Abbasi host the show. Published by The BMJ.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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