Inside Health by BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
Categories: Health
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There are so many campaigns now to stop stigma and embarrassment - from Davina McCall talking about the menopause to Idris Elba campaigning for black men to get their prostate checked.
And when we asked for your stories of how embarrassment impacts your health, our inbox was flooded with stories of incontinence, IBS, genital problems, skin issues, fertility troubles, fatty lumps and more - along with the huge and varied ways these issues are affecting your lives.
So, how does embarrassment affect how we behave regarding our health, how can doctors and our health service adapt to alleviate it, and do awareness campaigns really help?
To discuss James Gallagher is joined by:
Dr Margaret McCartney, GP Dr Vanessa Apea, consultant in sexual health at Barts Health NHS Trust and Medical Director at Preventx Professor Ruth Parry, communications expert who studies clinician-patient interactions about sensitive issues.
Plus, James gets some top tips to help alleviate embarrassment when talking to your doctor.
Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Hannah Robins Content Editor: Holly Squire Production Coordinator: Ismael Soriano
This programme was produced in partnership with The Open University.
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378 - How does embarrassment affect your health? Tue, 22 Oct 2024
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377 - Changing the lives of children with rare genetic diseases Wed, 16 Oct 2024
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376 - Cancer vaccine trials and planning for cyber attacks Tue, 27 Aug 2024
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375 - Mpox, your statins questions and tick-borne meat allergies Tue, 20 Aug 2024
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374 - What should we do about vaping? Tue, 13 Aug 2024
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373 - Can diet and exercise ever replace statins? Tue, 06 Aug 2024
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372 - How can we age well? Tue, 30 Jul 2024
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371 - Is watching sport good for you? Tue, 23 Jul 2024
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370 - What does alcohol do to the body and brain? Tue, 07 May 2024
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369 - Are more young people getting cancer? Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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368 - Can insomnia be fixed? Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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367 - We go on a tick hunt Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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366 - New HIV test, Vitamin D and TB, Vitamin B12, mouth ulcers Tue, 04 Sep 2012
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365 - BP reax, fibroids, access to notes, botox Tue, 28 Aug 2012
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364 - Over-diagnosis: High Blood Pressure Tue, 21 Aug 2012
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363 - Over-diagnosis: Chronic Kidney Disease Tue, 14 Aug 2012
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362 - Steroids, the killing season, telehealth, Dupuytren's Tue, 07 Aug 2012
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361 - Liver disease, Hepatitis C Tue, 31 Jul 2012
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360 - GP Access, Telehealth, ICU, Sewage Tue, 24 Jul 2012
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359 - Whooping cough, Cardiac screening, Antibacterials, Selfcare, Xbox Tue, 17 Jul 2012
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358 - Coughs, vocal cord dysfunction and athletes, taste and smell, waiting room toys Tue, 10 Jul 2012
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357 - GI bleeds, pregnancy and working, frozen shoulder, patient surveys Tue, 03 Jul 2012
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356 - Teenage depression, Choir, Heart failure, Protein shakes Tue, 24 Apr 2012
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355 - Whooping cough, maternal deaths, blushing, intestinal transit Tue, 17 Apr 2012
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354 - Morphine and the heart, antibiotics and the appendix, sick notes, blood tests, painkillers Tue, 10 Apr 2012
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353 - Prescription charges, HPV vaccine, tattoos, cycle helmets Tue, 03 Apr 2012
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352 - Aspirin, holiday sickness, ADHD Tue, 27 Mar 2012
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351 - PCOS, garlic, PSA test, dignity Tue, 20 Mar 2012
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350 - Red meat and heart health, carbon monoxide, screening, joints supplements Tue, 13 Mar 2012
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349 - Vitiligo, diabetes care, knee implants, masks, social media Tue, 06 Mar 2012
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348 - Sleep tabs death, e-cigs, GP examples, underactive thyroid and pregnancy Tue, 28 Feb 2012
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347 - Anti-smoking incentives, ACE inhibitor cough, Raynaud's, fizzy drinks Tue, 21 Feb 2012
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346 - Patient records, cholesterol, statins, whiplash Tue, 14 Feb 2012
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345 - Hospital infections, nutrition, gout, gluten, Shockwave, tennis elbow Tue, 07 Feb 2012
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344 - Pseudomonas, anti-coags, alcohol, pres drugs, high heels Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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343 - NHS bill, tinnitus, pedestrians, teenage info, Vitamin D, cough mix Tue, 24 Jan 2012
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342 - Health bill, Memory, Resuscitation, Flu Tue, 17 Jan 2012
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341 - Med devices, Testosterone, Itching, BP, Pills, Tourette's Tue, 10 Jan 2012
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340 - Is intermittent fasting good for you? Tue, 09 Apr 2024
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339 - Can noise harm our health? Tue, 02 Apr 2024
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338 - Coffee, nap, rave, repeat... Tue, 13 Feb 2024
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337 - Why recovering from long Covid is a lot like training for the Olympics Tue, 06 Feb 2024
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336 - A guide to the perimenopause Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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335 - Speedy medicine, and is fermented food good for us? Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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334 - Bladder, bowels and sex: Learning to live after my mountain accident Tue, 16 Jan 2024
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333 - Living in a Bacterial World Tue, 09 Jan 2024
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332 - How do cold and flu remedies help when we're ill? Wed, 08 Nov 2023
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331 - What's stopping us from exercising in older age? Tue, 24 Oct 2023
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330 - Inside a sexual assault referral centre Tue, 10 Oct 2023
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329 - Migraines and Headaches Tue, 03 Oct 2023