- How people get into medicine (and often don't know what they've for themselves into!)
- The difficulty of getting good work experience in caring professions
- The tension around quitting and "falling out of love" with a career
- How immature people's brains are when they make career decisions
- What training to be a medical doctor looks like
- The transition from lecture based learning to experiential learning (hospital placements)
- Progressing from observing to working "with life and death"
- The complexity of people and illness
- Doctor / Patient power dynamics
- Are we using the best processes to teach people to become Doctors?
- Does the training for medicine work in opposition to the practice it requires?
- How GPs are like a multi petal flower
- Shift patterns, circadian rhythms and sleep
- Researching how to make ourselves healthier
- Complimentary medicine
- The difficulty of filtering evidence for validity and efficacy
- Personalised medicine
- The difficulty of explaining the rationale behind treatment options
- The importance of supporting the mental health of medical professionals
- Health as opposed to physical and mental health
- Peer supervision as a way of unsticking
- Collective intelligence
- The Hippocratic oath
- "Is there a doctor on the plane?" and the morality of helping.
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