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Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing – Book Launch with Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

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Jul 3, 2024 - Jul 3, 2024

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Migration Museum,
Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre,
London, SE13 7HB

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Wednesday 3 July 2024
6pm – 7pm
Free – book via Eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing with Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan at the Migration Museum. You can expect an evening of insightful discussions, book signings, and an opportunity to explore our award-winning exhibition Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS. This is a chance to delve into the world of medical practices and the power of speaking up. We hope to see you there!

Dr Dhairyawan takes us on a journey through history to show how not listening to patients has been ingrained in the story of medicine. Western medicine was built on the understanding that power should always lie with the doctor, and that patients should be powerless to decisions made about their body if it is done to make them well. This, alongside the prejudices of society that are reflected in medicine, has led to dramatic gaps in medical knowledge because for centuries vast demographics of people have not been heard.

With true stories of silencing, neglect and injustice, Dr Dhairyawan opens the lid on the devastating impact medical bias can have and offers a way forward in which active and engaged listening is the new frontier. This is a story of the unheard, and a timely exposé of the medical world.

Dr Dhairyawan will be in conversation with Dr Nikita Kanani, a south-east-London-based GP, Trustee of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, member of the The King’s Fund General Advisory Council and former Medical Director of Primary Care at NHS England and Chief Clinical Officer of the NHS Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group.

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Please note, if you would like to look around our Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition, please arrive from 5.30pm.

About Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan:

Rageshri is a doctor, researcher and author. She is an NHS Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine based in London. Her clinical work, research, writing and advocacy focus on improving health equity and she is a sought-after speaker on this topic. Rageshri’s own experiences of being unheard as a patient and her work with minoritised communities, have inspired her to speak up about injustice in healthcare.
Rageshri is the author of Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing and has contributed an essay to the anthology No One Talks About This Stuff. She is an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word writer awardee. Rageshri has written for The Lancet, BMJ Leader and Media Diversified and has appeared on The Victoria Derbyshire Show, Channel 5 News, BBC Woman’s Hour, BBC World Service and BBC Sounds, among others.

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