The ways that patients and doctors can feel silenced or dismissed in medicine – and how we can change this – is the focus of Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan’s book Unheard: the medical practice of silencing. 

"I'm a doctor and I don't always listen well," Dr Dhairyawan says. "I really want to and I want to be a good listener, but I don't always do so. I really wanted to understand what made it hard for us as doctors to listen better."

Welcome to the first episode of The Doctor podcast, brought to you by the British Medical Association. Each month, we bring you conversations inspired by stories featured in The Doctor magazine. This episode builds on the feature article ‘The lost art of listening’ by Seren Boyd.

You don’t need to have read the article to enjoy this episode but if you’d like to do so you can find it at: thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/health-society/the-lost-art-of-listening/

You can find a transcript of this episode at thedoctor.bma.org.uk/podcast

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also be interested in the following articles, on related topics:

• thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/health-society/you-re-welcome/
• thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/health-society/the-old-ways/
• thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/life-at-work/hear-my-concerns/

For more stories from The Doctor, follow @TheDrMagazine on X/Twitter, or visit thedoctor.bma.org.uk

And you can find out more about Dr Dhairyawan and her work at www.drrageshri.com

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