139 - ‘How my life experience has influenced me as a doctor’ with Dr Naomi Jiagbogu

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dr Louise Newson met Dr Naomi Jiagbogu over a decade ago at Birmingham Medical School when Louise was mentoring students who were studying medicine as a post-graduate degree. Naomi subsequently qualified, began her GP training and moved to Manchester with husband, Aria, who was training to be a paediatrician. Louise and Naomi discuss their memories of the post-graduate course and reflect on how the students were older, from more varied backgrounds and had broader life experiences than you would typically find on an under-graduate course and how these factors enhanced the student’s skills and learning, especially when relating to patients. After beginning her GP training, Naomi’s husband Aria sadly developed a brain tumour and after surgery, treatments and a yearlong remarkable recovery, the cancer returned and Aria died in 2020. During his illness, Aria wrote two children’s books for their young son about sickness, loss and family, and he also wrote a memoir for adults titled, ‘Broken Brain: Brutally Honest, Brutally Me’. Together, Naomi and Louise discuss the importance of looking beyond the disease and connecting with the person not just the patient, and consider how personal suffering can transform the way you communicate as a clinician. For more details about Aria’s story and books please visit his website https://www.ariatheauthor.com/ The books can be purchased from https://theendlessbookcase.com/authors/aria-nikjooy/ Or Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-Brain-Brutally-Honest-Me The royalties from Arias children's books are going to Brain Tumour Research, Royal Medical Foundation, Society for the Assistance of Medical Families and Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. If you have listened to Naomi’s story and would like read more and donate to Brain Tumour Research, please go to https://www.braintumourresearch.org/stories/in-our-hearts/in-our-hearts-stories/aria-nikjooyYou can follow Aria on Instagram at @ariatheauthor64

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause.
0:45.6	So today on the podcast I have with me, Naomi, who I first met about 10, 11 years ago when I was
0:53.4	working in Birmingham University and I was working actually
0:56.6	as a moderator for their GEC course, which is graduate entry course. So these are for very highly
1:03.2	motivated students actually who have done a degree already and then decide they want to do medicine.
1:09.1	So I worked with Birmingham University for about
1:12.2	a year or so before I got pregnant with my third child. And I was blown away, actually,
1:17.5	with the motivation, the determination, the persistence, the consistency of incredible work by
1:24.6	these really young people. And my role as a moderator really was to steer them
1:29.1	in the right direction and listen, they had a week to prepare work, come back and present it to
1:35.9	their group. And Naomi was one of in the group. So I had a great privilege of knowing her then. And
1:39.9	then you reconnected with me more recently. So it's lovely to have you on board. So if you could
1:44.7	explain Naomi what you're up to at the moment, that would be great. Hi, Louise. So yeah, that's
1:49.3	right. So I did meet you when I was on the get course, which was great. Very stressful four years,
1:54.0	but it was fantastic nonetheless. Met lots of good friends and things. But yeah, since then,
1:59.6	I worked in Birmingham for two years,
2:02.4	doing FY1, FY2. And then I started my GP training in Birmingham, actually. But then I also got
2:08.6	pregnant. And then I moved with my husband at the time to Manchester because I was pregnant
2:13.6	because he started his paediatric training. So then we had a child and a lot of things in
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