Rachel Clarke:Palliative Care Doctor and Writer

BBC Hard Talk interview:

Stephen Sackur speaks to palliative care doctor and writer Rachel Clarke. Her books about the reality of doctoring, confronting Covid and, most of all, about dealing with death are unvarnished, moving and thought-provoking. She asks us to consider a tough question - can dying be life-affirming?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g41r

 

Dr Clarke is close to Simon Wessely and Clare Gerada, judging by her many and friendly interactions on Twitter with them (she often replies to Wessely’s tweets) from 2016 to today. She has gone so far as to call him a “legend” and has done podcasts for the Royal Society of Medicine with him.

She has also said that the integrated psychological medicine team at the Oxford University Hospital, home to Michael Sharpe, is “wonderful and we love them”.

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1143933063916851201

 

I follow her on twitter and I think she's great. I don't recall her ever mentioning ME/CFS, it's not really her area. @CRG does she mention ME in the clip you've posted?

 

She also writes for the Graun, and has a piece today in fact. I've never read anything written by her about postviral illness; her usual contributions are opinion pieces about the NHS and government health policies (she rarely takes prisoners):

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...dying-nhs-hospital-corridors-avoidable-deaths