A very very special episode this week as Nicola Davis and I explore our best bits from the incredible dotMD festival in Galway which we attended this weekend. This episode was recorded live at dotMD after a phenomenal 2 days of listening, thinking, reflecting, dancing and eating.
Follow Nicola on twitter: https://twitter.com/drnicoladavis
The festival website is here http://dotmd.ie (sign up to get information about when they release tickets for 2023) their twitter feed is here: https://twitter.com/DotMDConf
We discussed many wonderful people and their talks and books, sorry to anyone we have missed mentioning by name here, we only had 33 minutes but we could have talked for hours!!!
Here's our combined post conference reading list (to be honest we had to hold back but this is the list we discuss in the episode):
Letter to a Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven (Tara has recorded a podcast episode with her which will be coming up very soon too!) https://twitter.com/suzannekovenmd and her website http://suzannekoven.com/book/
Understanding the path to mastery by Roger Kneebone. He also has a wonderful related podcast called "Countercurrent" which can be found here https://rogerkneebone.libsyn.com/
A Life in Trauma by Chris Luke https://twitter.com/DrChrisLukeCork
After the Storm by Emma Jane Unsworth https://twitter.com/emjaneunsworth
Dr Quin, Medicine Man by John Quin https://twitter.com/jdmquin
How not to be a Doctor by John Launer https://johnlauner.com/ and https://twitter.com/JohnLauner
Conversations Inviting Change has a website here where you can learn more about this brilliant model and sign up for courses https://www.conversationsinvitingchange.com/
Monica Lalanda was the incredible artist in residence her cartons can be seen on the dotMD social media pages, follow her here https://twitter.com/mlalanda
Vital Signs - Martin Dyer due out later in the year which contains this wonderful poem Ter Conatus by Bernard O'Donoghue https://poetryarchive.org/poem/ter-conatus/
Benji Waterhouse's book will be out in 2023 and is very much on my list his website is here so you can keep a look out for it when it's released https://www.benjiwaterstones.com/about