Aoife Abbey's guest appearances

Aoife Abbey

The Women's Podcast

Behind The Spine

Dolly Alderton

Donald Trump

Michelle Obama

Hillary Clinton

Rebecca Traister

Eve Ensler

Patti Smith

Sinéad Burke

Tess Holliday

Bernie Sanders

Elizabeth Gilbert

Glennon Doyle

Gretchen Rubin

Frederick Douglass

Karin Slaughter

OwlTail

The long life of shows like Casualty, which has been running since 1986, highlight our obsession with the drama of the hospital. But how many times have you felt the scripting drift too far from reality? Aoife Abbey is the writer of ‘Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor’ and brings a captivating insight into the actual experiences of those on the front line of medicine. This episode reminds us of a writer’s responsibility to tell the story accurately, it explores how art can, and should be used to highlight issues that have been left in the dark, and it examines the need for a holistic approach in life and fiction alike.

The long life of shows like Casualty, which has been running since 1986, highlight our obsession with the drama of the hospital. But how many times have you felt the scripting drift too far from reality? Aoife Abbey is the writer of ‘Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor’ and brings a captivating insight into the actual experiences of those on the front line of medicine. This episode reminds us of a writer’s responsibility to tell the story accurately, it explores how art can, and should be used to highlight issues that have been left in the dark, and it examines the need for a holistic approach in life and fiction alike.

S1E15 Medicine: Stories from intensive care with Aoife Abbey

Intensive Care doctor Aoife Abbey went to work on Christmas Day and four of her patients died. That's normal. It's just part of the job. Every day at University Hospital Coventry she experiences feelings of fear, grief, anger, joy, distraction, disgust and hope. The former 'Secret Doctor' blogger has written about those feelings in her first book, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor, which describes what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for the living and the dying. She talks to Kathy about the book, about empathy and why there are no 'fighters' when it comes to medicine.Plus: Kathy and Róisín talk about Derek Scally's call-out to the 'Magdalene men', the women in white at President Trump's State of the Union address and the insanity of suggesting that women should avoid going jogging alone to combat abuse and catcalling from men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Intensive Care doctor Aoife Abbey went to work on Christmas Day and four of her patients died. That's normal. It's just part of the job. Every day at University Hospital Coventry she experiences feelings of fear, grief, anger, joy, distraction, disgust and hope. The former 'Secret Doctor' blogger has written about those feelings in her first book, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor, which describes what it means to be alive and how it feels to care for the living and the dying. She talks to Kathy about the book, about empathy and why there are no 'fighters' when it comes to medicine.Plus: Kathy and Róisín talk about Derek Scally's call-out to the 'Magdalene men', the women in white at President Trump's State of the Union address and the insanity of suggesting that women should avoid going jogging alone to combat abuse and catcalling from men. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Ep 280 'Secret Doctor' Aoife Abbey's Seven Signs of Life