Three doctors, each with a parallel career: Voice Box meets medics who have also excelled in other professions.

Host Joana Rodrigues, a Year 6 MBChB student, chats with a writer, an athlete and a musician about how they achieve a delicate balancing act.

With:

Gavin Francis, GP, Head of MBChB Admissions at the University of Edinburgh, and best-selling author.

Polly Swann, surgical trainee and Olympic silver medalist.

Fran O'Hanlon, a palliative care doctor and musician who performs under the name Mezanmi.

Recorded Nov 2024.

Opening and closing music by Mezanmi.

A lively discussion with three Edinburgh-based surgeons, with a particular emphasis on the challenges facing women when working in such a demanding and high-pressure career.

Presented by MBChB medical student, Heen Shamaz.

With:

• Professor Lorna Marson, Professor of Transplant Surgery and Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon
• Ms Chloe Scott, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
• Professor Farhat Din, - Bowel Cancer UK-Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Chair of Colorectal Cancer Research & Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon.

Recorded November 2023.

Voice Box theme music by medical student Alex Lewthwaite.

Approximately 15% of people living in the UK identify as neurodivergent. But what does it mean to be neurodivergent if you're working in the medical profession?

Joana Rodrigues, Year 5 MBChB student, hosts a lively discussion with two Edinburgh doctors, both of whom were diagnosed with autism in their 40s.

Guests:

Dr Rosie Baruah. Consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Medical School.

Dr Shirley Moore. A former hospital doctor and now a counsellor and psychotherapist, specialising in working with neurodivergent clients.

For more information and support, visit:

Disability and Learning Support Service (for University of Edinburgh students)
Support for neurodiversity at the University of Edinburgh (for staff)
Scottish Autism
Autistic Doctors International
Autistic Girls Network

Recorded September 2023.

Voice Box theme music by medical student Alex Lewthwaite.