I am a retired consultant in respiratory medicine, and hold an honorary chair at the University of Sheffield.

I am interested in understanding many aspects of medical practice better, including clinician experience, clinician distress, burnout, error and the experience of people who are ill. The medical humanities is an area of work that uses approaches in the humanities to examine medical practice. It encompasses studies of history, experience, justice, ethics, and philosophies of care, as well as study of illness experience, and the doctor–patient relationship.

I used my Churchill Fellowship to examine how medical humanities teaching is integrated into undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in the USA. There are lessons for how we can integrate humanities into our own teaching and practice in the UK. I'm using the knowledge gained to argue for more teaching around these areas in undergraduate education, and writing about clinician experience, distress, and burnout. We're currently running a series of podcasts and interviews with leading researchers in the medical humanities to explore their work and links to medicine.