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  • Liz O'Riordan has a new working life today

    “I didn’t want it to be a dirty secret" – how sharing a cancer and depression diagnosis taught a doctor to heal.

    • 15 Apr 2024
    • Adele Waters

    Former breast surgeon Liz O’Riordan explains how having cancer three times and serious depression has led her to help people in a different way.

  • “A lot of people just wish I would shut up, but I won’t” – how a surgeon has made it his mission to stand up to bullies and discrimination.

    • 29 Feb 2024

    Orthopaedic surgeon and activist Simon Fleming explains why he has spent years trying to change the culture in health care to a safe and respectful one for patients and staff.

  • “I can't see you as a director of nursing” – how a nurse reached the board, despite facing racism

    • 19 Feb 2024

    Karen Bonner, chief nurse at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, tells Adele Waters why she is still as in love with nursing now as when she first walked onto a ward.