Deep Breath In: a podcast for GPs

Tackling primary care’s everyday challenges

Life in primary care can be complex. Deep Breath In explores the highs and lows of being a GP, offering a space to reflect on the grey areas of general practice.

The Team

The Deep Breath In team are (L-R) Navjoyt Ladher, Tom Nolan, Jenny Rasanathan.

Navjoyt Ladher is a locum GP in London and clinical editor at The BMJ. She Tweets at @NavjoytLadher

Tom Nolan is a GP partner at Brockwell Park Surgery, in London and clinical editor at the BMJ. You can follow him on Twitter at @tnolan

Jenny Rasanathan is a Family Medicine doctor and clinical editor for The BMJ, and tweets very rarely at @jjk84

Music for the podcast by Childcare

Please email us if you have any questions or comments about the podcast: practice@bmj.com.

Produced and edited by

Duncan Jarvies

Racism in medicine

In our discussions on Deep Breath In, we have been confronted the way in which medicine is affected by, and in some cases can perpetuate, structural racism. In some of our episodes Tom, Navjoyt, and Jenny refer to a reading list that they have found helpful - supplied by upcoming DBI guest Annabel Sowemimo, sexual and reproductive health trainee, and founder of Decolonising Contraception.

'How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality' by Adam Rutherford. 2020
'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present' by Harriet A. Washington. 2006.
'Superior: The Return of Race Science' by Angela Saini. 2019.
The Decolonising Contraception reading list
Resources on The King's Fund website: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/topics/equality-diversity

We have also compiled a document of other resources for GPs that we have found useful