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A medical humanities podcast where we explore themes from fiction, memoir and other non traditional non-textbooks which help to make us better at what we do.
Hosted by Dr Tara George, a GP and medical educator, in each episode a different guest explores a book that has changed their practice. Follow us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/bedsidereading.bsky.social Facebook or Instagram @bedsidereadingpodcast. If you'd like to recommend a book or to come on the podcast as a guest please email: bedsidereadingpodcast@gmail.com. Episodes hosted by Tara George, edited by Levi Gee
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Shattered Lands
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May 05, 2026 |
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Sociopath
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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These Heavy Black Bones
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Born at the Gates of Hell
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Easter Break
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Between Two Worlds
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Welcome to the Shitshow
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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The New Age of Sexism
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Let Them Theory
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Dream Count
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Poor
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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The Birds
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Burnout Free Working
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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The Citadel
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Olive's Day
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Pearl
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Overspill
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Twixtmas Special
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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When your neurons dance
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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The Names
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Shred Sisters
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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The Wonders of Dr Bent
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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I who have never known men
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Educated
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Fear and Loathing in Plymouth
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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BONUS EPISODE: The best of what has been....
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Ayatollah's Gaze
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Ultra Women
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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The Age of Diagnosis
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Maybe I'm Amazed
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Quacks
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Medication, Mental Illness and Murder
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Your Worry Makes Sense
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Brotherless Night
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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The Story of a Heart
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Leadership Hikers
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Havoc
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Belly Full
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Playing Big
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Blue Sons and Skyshine
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Needle
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Trust me, I'm Exhausted
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Nonviolent Communication
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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The Midwife
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Georgia Vine: Occupational Therapy, Disability Activism and Me
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Anxious Generation
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: Interpretations of Love
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Reading Well. The Reading Agency: Books on Prescription
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Rema Jyothirmayi and I explore "Now I become myself" by May Sarton
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May 27, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Charley Baker and I explore "Nasty Woman" by Nina Donovan
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May 19, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Jo Maher and I explore "Three Little Birds" by Jackie Kay
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May 12, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Sam Guglani and I explore "Preparation" by Czesław Miłosz
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May 06, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Lizz Lidbury and I explore "Arguing in the Headmaster's Office" by Hollie McNish
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Tom Oates and I explore "For Andrew Wood" by James Fenton
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Sabina Dosani and I explore "Visit to the Vets" by Ilse Pedler
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Vicky Thomas and I explore "in time of daffodils" by ee cummings
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Bedside Poetry: Beth Osmond and I explore "Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot" by Angel Nafis
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Soldier Sailor
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Dirty Laundry
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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The Madness of Grief
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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A Beginners Guide to Dying
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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When the Dust Settles - Lucy Easthope
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Heart of the Matter
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Unheard
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Prophet Song
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Aftershock
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Never Split the Difference
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Age Proof
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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How To Rise
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Twixtmas Special 2024
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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My Favourite Mistake
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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In the Dream House
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Own Your Period
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Outrun
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Hope - Scottish Book Trust 2024
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Us, After
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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You don't have to be mad to work here (Benji Waterhouse)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Bonus episode reboot: This Winter (Heartstopper)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Strong Female Character
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Song of the Whole Wide World
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Interpretations of Love
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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All My Wild Mothers
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The Golden Rule - Dr Lucy Pollock
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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The Butterfly House
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Girl Unmasked
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Fighting for the soul of General Practice
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Heart
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Strange Sally Diamond
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Turn the Ship Around
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Elizabeth is Missing
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Covenant of Water
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Shy
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Books to inspire your clinical career
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Clytemnestra's Bind
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Pessimism is for lightweights
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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The Panopticon
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Women's Prize for Fiction - Shortlist
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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May 28, 2024 |
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Microskills
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May 21, 2024 |
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Unnatural Causes
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May 14, 2024 |
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The Queen of Dirt Island
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May 07, 2024 |
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Leadership Special Episode
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Unwell Women
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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The Right Kind of Wrong
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Womb
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Why Can't I See My GP?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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A Fortunate Man
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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The Book About Getting Older
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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The Grief Nurse
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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The Belly of the Whale
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Kinder Scout
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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A Curious History of Sex
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Killer Looks
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Good People
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The Vagina Bible
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Medicine Man
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Christmas Special 2023
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Kaleidoscopic Minds
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Christmas Shopping Ideas
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Song of Achilles
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The Madness
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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A Fortunate Woman
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Loveless
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Kitchen Table Wisdom
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Frontline Midwife
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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You're the only one I've told
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Slug
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Wonder
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Tiny Pieces of Enid
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Queenie
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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A Place for Lost Souls
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The Star Outside my Window
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The Lost Properties of Love
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Lessons in Chemistry
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Everything Everything
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Pride and Prejudice
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Beartown
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Cat Brushing
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Project Hail Mary
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Time to Think
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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This Winter (a Heartstopper novella)
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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This Child of Ours
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Redface
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May 30, 2023 |
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Rebel Ideas
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May 23, 2023 |
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What Happened to You?
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May 16, 2023 |
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Demon Copperhead
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May 09, 2023 |
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You are not alone
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May 02, 2023 |
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Half The Sky
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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The Body Keeps the Score (and The Birth Debrief)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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This too shall pass
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Mr Loverman
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Many Different Kinds of Love
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Unforgettable
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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The Well Gardened Mind
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Belly Woman
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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I'm Sorry You Feel That Way
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Kathryn Mannix - With the end in mind
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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I Survived
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Queen of Bloody Everything
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Can You Hear Me?
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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A Still Life
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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The Cure for Good Intentions: Sophie Harrison
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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I am I am I am
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Set Boundaries, Find Peace
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Twixtmas Special: Ten good reads from 2022 and 8 to think about for 2023...
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Christmas Special: The Turn of the Screw
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Love After Love
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Atonement
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Four Winds
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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How India Works
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The Island of Missing Trees
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Earthed
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Liz O'Riordan: speaker, writer, breast surgeon with breast cancer....
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Shuggie Bain
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Tornado of Life
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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What Remains?
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Atlas of the Heart
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Histories
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Self Compassion
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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The Culture Code
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Vesper Flights
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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12 books for a year of good doctoring
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Listen
|
Jul 26, 2022 |
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Suzanne Koven: Letter to a Young Female Physician
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Counselling for Toads
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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The Health Gap
|
Jul 05, 2022 |
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A Terrible Kindness
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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dotMD festival special
|
Jun 21, 2022 |
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Endurance
|
Jun 14, 2022 |
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Solve for happy
|
Jun 07, 2022 |
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Re-educated
|
May 31, 2022 |
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
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May 24, 2022 |
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Close to where the heart gives out
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May 17, 2022 |
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Psycho-logical
|
May 10, 2022 |
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Guts
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May 03, 2022 |
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Room
|
Apr 26, 2022 |
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BONUS EPISODE: Talking to Strangers
|
Apr 12, 2022 |
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Stuart a Life Backwards
|
Apr 05, 2022 |
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Patience
|
Mar 29, 2022 |
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Vicky Thomas - poet, paediatrician and so much more
|
Mar 22, 2022 |
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The Pull of the Stars
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Invisible Women
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Mend The Living
|
Mar 01, 2022 |
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Mothership
|
Feb 22, 2022 |
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The Salt Path
|
Feb 15, 2022 |
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Patient
|
Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Year of the Runaways
|
Feb 01, 2022 |
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A Man Called Ove
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Hamnet
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Instrumental
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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The Thursday Murder Club
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Night Feeds and Morning Songs
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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The Atlas of Love
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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5 books for your Christmas list
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Cloudstreet
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Stronger
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Imaginary Friends
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Trailer and welcome to bedside reading
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Nov 14, 2021 |