Dr Rachel Clarke is a dedicated palliative care doctor, passionate NHS advocate and bestselling author. Through her work, Rachel has become a powerful voice and important influence on how we approach the ultimate collective crisis. We’ve discussed our unwillingness to make loss a part of mainstream conversation with other guests on the pod. In this conversation Rachel helps us look hard at how and why we should fix that failure. Her brilliant new book, The Story of a Heart, looks at death – and love – from an entirely different and deeply moving perspective. Links     Rachel’s <a href="https://x.com/doctor_oxford" target="_blank">Twitter</a>: <a href="https://x.com/doctor_oxford" target="_blank">https://x.com/doctor_oxford</a>   Charity Hospice Ukraine: <a href="https://www.hospiceukraine.com/what-we-do" target="_blank">https://www.hospiceukraine.com/what-we-do</a>   Books 2017: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Life_in_My_Hands" target="_blank">Your Life in My Hands:</a> A Junior Doctor's Story 2020: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Life,_a_doctor%27s_story_of_love_and_loss" target="_blank">Dear Life</a>: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss 2021: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathtaking" target="_blank">Breathtaking</a>: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic 2024: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Heart-author-Breathtaking-major/dp/0349145598" target="_blank">The Story of a Heart</a>   TV adaptation of Breathtaking Breathtaking. ITV. 2024. <a href="https://www.itv.com/watch/breathtaking/10a4089" target="_blank">https://www.itv.com/watch/breathtaking/10a4089</a>   Stream/buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: <a href="https://ampl.ink/qp6bm" target="_blank">https://ampl.ink/qp6bm</a>     Some Velvet Morning Website: <a href="http://www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk</a>       Your Daily Practice: Sleep by Myndstream: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682</a>     This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners Host – Andy Coulson    CWC team: Jane Sankey, Louise Difford, Mabel Pickering With special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global       For all PR and guest approaches please contact – <a href="http://coulsonpartners.com/" target="_blank">podcast@coulsonpartners.com</a>

Dr Rachel Clarke is a dedicated palliative care doctor, passionate NHS advocate and bestselling author. Through her work, Rachel has become a powerful voice and important influence on how we approach the ultimate collective crisis. We’ve discussed our...

96. Dr Rachel Clarke on death…how to manage, talk about and embrace it