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Judith Harvey writes regularly for the National Association of Sessional GPs newsletter and other GP publications. Her articles have now been gathered into a recently published book; Perspectives. Judith’s interests range from the Cuban health system (she founded the charity Cuba Medical Link to enable students to travel to Cuba for their electives) to self-prescribing by GPs and from her own experiences with concussion to the social pressure put on potential organ donors. Ben talks to Judith about her life, her career and her writing.

Show Notes

Judith’s progress from GP to published author (53secs)

From partner to sessional GP (1min 36secs)

Contributing to the NASGP newsletter (2min 17secs)

Writing about drugs following a visit to Columbia (3mins 29secs)

Just say “no” doesn’t work (3mins 58secs)

Reaction to the articles (5mins)

“Prescribing for Shrimps” – medication and the environment (5mins 27secs)

Judith’s experience of concussion (6mins 42secs)

Three months recovery (7mins 33secs)

Admiration for the Cuban health system (8mins 18secs)

Setting up Cuban Medical Link (8mins 58secs)

Could we learn from Cuba? (9mins 52secs)

Training of junior doctors (11mins 18secs)

Giving up or stopping? – moving on from medicine (11mins 46secs)

Advice for GPs just starting out (13mins 34secs)

Buying Judith’s book (14mins 06secs)

You can purchase Judith’s book from Amazon here.

Ben’s review of Perspectives by Judith Harvey can be found here.