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Is there anything scarier than optional reflection!In a surprisingly uplifting Halloween episode Lara reflects on nine things she learnt, wished someone had clued her in on before, during and after medical school. Some are obvious, some are cou
A meandering ramble with your fave perennial student around representation in medicine from a working and patient perspective. Achieving equality, diversity and inclusion is something that many organisations claim to be working towards but the
rEPreSENtaTIOnNothing everything is for you, or your opinion. A short and sweary one
Medicine is expensive. Student loans are not free money and the cost of being a medic is not cheap. Why?
I'm BACKKKKIn this episode; drugs, accents, gratitude journals and criminal singing.
This episode has some adult themes, but also a game to play along with. Welcome to Nazi or Nah where we list a bunch of eponymous disease, scores, books and surgeries and ask if the names behind the disease were Nazis or Nah. It is a simple gam
What is good character?Character, Identity and personality are similar but not the same. Medics, seemingly ahead and more than all the other professions revel in public self-abasement when we make mistakes. Does anyone else read the MPTS repor
In this questionable return to the medium the pod talks about middle classness and medicine. Together we've dallied with lower class issues and highlighted the upper class influence this episode is all about the middle. If we can figure out wh
In the second instalment of this class two part we take a look at the Big Boy reports of health inequalities: The Black report, the Marmot report and the Kings Fund Health Inequities.There is a big ol’ side note on social group and how this can
Attempting to keep to a thursday episode this is a two parter about the impact of class in medicine.This episode touched on class, the medicine/nursing gender gap and how being a doctor rarely changes economic status
Could you survive on 6 powernaps a day? Or are you the type that needs 10 hours a night every night. Sleep is a core part of being alive, and we are not getting enough. This episode is a sip of nighttime warm milk with a brief look at sleep and
This special edition of the coloured prescription is a special prescription specifically for you. Junior trainee who failed an exam, This is for you.Final year who didn't match into a deanery. This is for you.Medical student who failed the year
It is something we all consume and necessary out of life but do you think you know if your diet is nutritionally complete?Low fat or Low carb. High protein and one meal a day. There are so many varieties of diet out there. All while people are
Reflecting on some of the news of the week before diving down into a review and reflect of the ASIT conference last week.This short episode pulls no punches in a review of last week's #ASiT2021 conference. Currently in adversity, unsure about e
It is World Book day and like many others Lara was a voracious reader. In this episode we look at some of the books that changed her view from teeny tiny bookworm toddler to adult book devouring caterpillar.Did any one else absolutely love Guns
A collaboration with Time Well Wasted's Faisal on mental illness and wellbeing. Medical school has limited time to teach a lot of topics and many key areas can get missed. It is obvious that there are many issues with how mental illness are tau
In this episode the CP takes a cautious look at the Health at Every size movement. With only one musical interlude this is a more serious episode about the darker side of the fat activism movement.Keeping it medical there is a raft of informati
Welcome to Series 2 The Coloured Prescription is back and blacker than ever. There are musical interludes, fades and new editing levels achieved. Thank you to everyone who listened from the beginning or started listening to us over Christmas. T
In this final episode we celebrate the last of the 12 days of Christmas and think about our future as working professionals, the pod after 3 months of it being out there in the world and how this global panoramic has changed our priorities. We
Surgery has a reputation for being mean despite the excellent #HammerItOut , #HeforShe and Operate With Respect campaigns. Those focus mostly on surgical colleagues treating each other with some decency. Surgeons working perhaps forget that st
Not technically surgery but obs and gynae is a surgical speciality so we are allowing it. In Vitro Fertilisation is still a controversial step towards creating a family despite developments in technology and wider popularisation of IVF/Egg free
In this episode we discuss a piece of surgical history: Vagotomies.Originally done for peptic ulcer disease, this is now an almost obsolete surgery. What will surgery look like in another 20 years? Will Interventional radiologists take over eve
Day 8 and Whipple's ProcedureThe only eponymous surgery in the whole list. The honour belongs to Dr Allen Whipple because it seems he was an absolute legend. Whipple was a bold surgeon who just removed most of the pancreas and small intestine
In what is turning into an unintendedly sexy theme we talk about stoma surgery, breaking bad news and living life. A short episode to welcome you into the New Year Stoma creation is a surgery that does necessitate some lifestyle changes but the
The humble lap chole rounds out the 2020 portion of this series. The laprascopic cholestectomy, a staple of routine procedures. This elective operation has gone from common to almost an endangered procedure in these pandemic stricken times. We
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