In this episode, podcast host Peter Cackett (Consultant Ophthalmologist, NHS Lothian) and guest speaker Dr Phil Hammond (Comedian, journalist and former NHS doctor) will reflect on a career in medicine and discuss topics such as medicine as part of a diverse career portfolio, medicine and journalism and mental health in medicine.

This podcast contains content relating to mental health and suicide. For support with mental health issues, please visit the links below:

Dedicated mental health support for all NHS doctors and dentists: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dedicated-mental-health-support-for-all-nhs-doctors-and-dentists

Samaritans: https://www.samaritans.org/

For over thirty years, Dr Phil Hammond juggled jobs as an NHS doctor, Private Eye journalist, BBC broadcaster and comedian. He has since retired from the NHS, having worked in primary care, sexual health and paediatric chronic fatigue, and was also a lecturer in medical communication at the University of Bristol and the University of Birmingham. As a comedian, he appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 in two shows: ‘Dr Hammond’s Covid Inquiry’ and ‘How I Ruined Medicine… for the better’. His coverage of the pandemic in Private Eye was highly praised, and a book of the columns – Dr Hammond’s Covid Casebook – is a Sunday Times bestseller. He is a patron of the Doctors’ Support Network and the Herpes Viruses Association, and he is the ‘honorary health secretary’ for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

This is a non-promotional podcast organised and funded by Bayer plc.

July 2025 | PP-EYL-GB-2903

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