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Evidence Based Medicine Episodes

Oct. 4, 2024

7.1 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! Statins and Shared Decision Making, with Brian Finney and Dr Sam Finnikin

Welcome back to The Aural Apothecary! For our first episode we bring you an exciting new format, where we’ll be diving deeper into some of the recurring themes from our first six series. The Aural Apothecary Analyses!

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May 24, 2024

6.8 Maricarmen Climént - Risky Business - How to communicate uncertainty

How do you explain the risks and benefits of a medicine when you yourself don’t really know? We chat to Maricarmen Climént about risk communication and how we best help patients to make better choices in the face of uncertainty?

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March 8, 2024

6.4 Professor Tony Avery OBE - The Problem with Prescribing?

How do you influence the prescribing habits of an entire country? This is the task of NHS England’s National Clinical Director of Prescribing Professor Tony Avery.

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July 21, 2023

5.10 Professor Neal Maskrey - Rebalancing Medicine

A retired GP and former director of the National Prescribing Centre Professor Neal Maskrey was a pivotal figure in the in the way clinical evidence is presented and used in practice, and an inspiration to many.

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May 6, 2022

4.1 - Getting Older and how to deal with it - with bestselling author Dr Lucy Pollock

We are joined by Consultant Geriatrician and bestselling author Dr Lucy Pollock. As Lucy tells us - we all become old if we are lucky. But how do we deal with it - as people and as health professionals? We chat about Lucy’s experience in working with the elderly and the importance of honesty, humour and shared decision making.

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Nov. 5, 2021

3.4 Professor James McCormack - Bohemian Polypharmacy

This week we are joined from Canada by Professor James McCormack, a pharmacist and co-host of the Best Science Medicine Podcast and is world renowned for his entertaining take on shared decision making and using evidence based information. James also uses music to teach others about polypharmacy and deprescribing. No, really!

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July 9, 2021

Episode 2.9 - Professor Dave Slawson - Information Mastery - We are not in Kansas anymore…

We welcome our first guest from the US - Professor Dave Slawson currently serves as the Chair of Family medicines for Atrium Health Carolinas Medicines Center and is a Professor of Family Medicines with the University of North Carolina. He is an international lecturer in evidenced-informed decision making and Information Mastery.

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June 18, 2021

Episode 2.6 Dr Mark Porter MBE - It shouldn't happen to a vet.

Mark is an NHS GP and award winning journalist. He spends half his week working as a GP partner in rural Gloucestershire, and the rest investigating and reporting on the latest developments in medicine. We chat to Mark about his new practice pharmacy professionals, deprescribing, and the six-week wait for hospital discharge communication.

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March 5, 2021

Episode 4. Dr Lawrence Brad, working with pharmacists multidisciplinary education and the science of Nudge.

Dr Lawrence Brad is a partner and GP prescribing who has published with both Jamie and STC about the benefits of clinical pharmacists in general practice. He is the RCGP representative for clinical pharmacists and we explore the role of clinical pharmacists and the synergistic relationship pharmacists can have with prescribers.

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