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Songbirds and Sirens - Sounds of Recovery from a Pandemic
Episodes
20 episodes
Ep 20 Steps To Walk | Marathon not a Sprint | Mark Myerson
In this final episode, Mark and I talk about the significant effects that lockdown has had on both the practical organisation and financial impact on an international small non-profit organisation such as Steps-2-Walk.He shares his insi...
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E 19 Steps To Walk | One Foot in Front of the Other | Mark Myerson
In this episode, Mark and I discuss what comes next for Foot and Ankle Surgery, and Orthopaedics in general.He shares his views on how innovation should drive change rather than the latest available technology.Mark is inspired b...
E18 Steps-To-Walk | Learning to Walk Again | Mark Myerson
Dr Mark Myerson has spent a lifetime helping people to walk. In a career that spans decades, he has developed teaching programmes to train surgeons across the globe to learn and develop surgical techniques to correct foot deformities....
E17 Out of Africa | Hands on Surgical Training in Africa | Alberto Gregori Part 4
In this final episode with our Alberto Gregori, we look to the future and towards next for him and World Orthopedic Concern.
E16 Out of Africa | Humanitarian Technology | Alberto Gregori Part 3
In this episode, Alberto Gregori, and I explore how the use of drones and AI technology could impact positively and shaping health care in underdeveloped countries.
E15 Out of Africa | The Tsunami of the Elective Backlog | Alberto Gregori Part 2
Alberto Gregori was an early adopter of computer navigation and total knee replacement. In this episode, we explore the challenges that the NHS faces in restarting elective services.We chat about how the healthcare sector n...
E14 Out of Africa | How the Pandemic has affected Flying Doctors in Africa | Alberto Gregori Part 1
10 years ago Alberto Gregori invited me to join NHS Lanarkshire. What prompted me to see yes, was a shared appreciation of the fact that by surrounding yourself with great people who have a can-do attitude, the impossible becomes possible. ...
E13 - Ghost Town | Ethical Property | Donna McCloskey - Part3
Donna McCloskey chats about what it means to her to be an ethical investor and the challenges that a fluctuating economy is going to have for the housing market.Donna explains how her love of helping people enables her to bring together...
E12 - Ghost Town | New Foundations | Donna McCloskey - Part2
A back injury ended Donna McCloskey's life as a 'Peggy Mitchell' landlady. Donna shares her experience of being a patient and how this helped shape her mindset for moving forward as a new type of landlord in property.
E11 - Ghost Town | Property Pivot | Donna McCloskey - Part1
Donna McCloskey is an ethical property investor, developer. Her real passion is helping people; whether that is a landlord providing fantastic homes to her tenants, or as a business coach, helping other property investors project plan...
E10 - London Calling | Moving On | Liz Ashley - Part5
Liz Ashley talks about the challenges ahead for Medicine and the impact that COVID and treating patients with COVID has had on their mental health.Liz describes how her experience with COVID and lockdown has changed her perspective on life....
E9 - London Calling | Death Becomes Her | Liz Ashley - Part4
Liz Ashley and I discuss the part of Medicine that is so often overlooked. Dying and death. It is the fear of dying that has caused so much of the panic around the response to COVID. Liz talks frankly about how she got her ...
E8 - London Calling | Flatline | Liz Ashley - Part3
Liz talks candidly about the effect that stopping Healthcare is having in the UK. Not only is the there the detriment to patients not getting treated, but also a significant impact on the training of doctors.Liz reflects on the benefi...
E7 - London Calling | Life Support | Liz Ashley - Part2
In this episode, Liz and I discuss how Medicine has changed over the last decade. We lament a world where working in medicine was not only hugely rewarding but also fun.Liz also gives her insightful perspective on the benefits for all...
E6 - London Calling | Crash Call | Liz Ashley - Part1
Liz Ashley is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist in London. She discusses her first-hand experience of COVID as the pandemic hit London. She describes how the reaction of fear for the NHS, effectively closed a significant ...
E5 - Singapore Sling | Rebound - the Future of Medical Education and Humanitarian Surgery | Chris Pearce - Part4
What next? How does this pause for medicine shape the future?In this final part of the interview with Chris Pearce, we look to the future and the opportunities for medical education and humanitarian work.
E4 - Singapore Sling | Recovery of Elective Surgery | Chris Pearce - Part3
Chris Pearce talks in-depth about the recovery plan for Orthopaedic Surgery in Singapore. At the peak of the pandemic, the focus correctly was on cancer and urgent trauma surgery. At the very start, priority detailed plans were create...
E3 - Singapore Sling | Changing Practice | Chris Pearce - Part2
The effects of lockdown on healthcare has resulted in technology being adopted in ways that many have been hoping for. As Medics adapt to new ways of working and managing patients Chris Pearce talks openly about the benefits of techno...
E2 - Singapore Sling | Pausing Healthcare | Chris Pearce - Part1
Singapore was one of the first countries outside China to go into lockdown. Find out how their previous experience with SARS helped them in the early stages of the pandemic.Chris Pearce is an Orthopaedic Surgeon based in Singapore...
E1- Breathe Again - The sounds of recovery following the 'pause of lockdown' - Ros Miller
What does recovery from the pandemic sound like? Fear was the instrument that implemented the 'lockdown' but is also the agent paralysing the recovery.A new and potentially more damaging pandemic has arrived that of the patients who hav...