Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan
@drrageshri.bsky.social
Sexual health & HIV Doctor/Researcher Writer 📚Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing 📚No One Talks About This Stuff https://www.drrageshri.com
Such an honour to chair this session. Incredible panellists, audience and discussion. Thank you @patients-association.org.uk!
Patients Association@patients-association.org.uk · last mo.Welcome back to Patient Partnership Week 2026! Our session today explores the 10 Year Health Plan, one year on, and whether it is delivering on its promise to give power to the people. Details here: www.patients-association.org.uk/Event/power-... #PPW2026
Thank you to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for being such champions of my book! “Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing is a thoughtful and compassionate look at how patients’ voices can be overlooked in healthcare. Inviting a deeper understanding of why listening truly matters.”
Great to be at the Royal College of Pharmacy Fellows’ dinner last night. So enjoyed @drrageshri.bsky.social as guest speaker re the Unheard. Reminder to listen better & use privilege to amplify. Reminded me of the desire for a Louding Voice. @clarepharmacy.bsky.social @raliatonatade.bsky.social
**NEW ESSAY @thelancet.com ** On Boundaries and Being a Medical Relative. This is about my father being unwell last year & what it was like to navigate being a medic & a relative of a patient. Huge thanks to my family for letting me write about our story 🙏🏽 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
On boundaries and being a medical relative
The cheers of the home crowd escaped the hospital room through open windows. “Another four!”, my father cried in frustration. England had scored yet another boundary against what was proving to be a hapless Indian side. I spent many hours last summer watching cricket on a tiny pay-per-view television screen at my father's bedside after he had been admitted to hospital. Watching cricket together was a familiar childhood experience, but this was a new situation—my first time as a medical relative.
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What’s it like to be a healthcare professional when someone you love is unwell? How do we balance using our knowledge & authority to advocate for better care, whilst not overstepping boundaries or not advocating enough, for fear of being deemed difficult? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
What’s it like to be a healthcare professional when someone you love is unwell? How do we balance using our knowledge & authority to advocate for better care, whilst not overstepping boundaries or not advocating enough, for fear of being deemed difficult? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
**NEW ESSAY @thelancet.com ** On Boundaries and Being a Medical Relative. This is about my father being unwell last year & what it was like to navigate being a medic & a relative of a patient. Huge thanks to my family for letting me write about our story 🙏🏽 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
On boundaries and being a medical relative
The cheers of the home crowd escaped the hospital room through open windows. “Another four!”, my father cried in frustration. England had scored yet another boundary against what was proving to be a hapless Indian side. I spent many hours last summer watching cricket on a tiny pay-per-view television screen at my father's bedside after he had been admitted to hospital. Watching cricket together was a familiar childhood experience, but this was a new situation—my first time as a medical relative.
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Seeking nurses, pharmacists, HCAs from HIV clinics/GP for online focus groups to discuss caring for people living with #HIV as they age: Bristol Wed 15 Apr 12:30-14:00 Brighton Thu 16 Apr 17:00-18:30 Sheffield Mon 20 Apr 17:00-18:30 £ offered. Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/hY7bLrPgkQ
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🎧PODCAST🎧 Tips for listening, and how to avoid dismissing young women Thanks to Dr Lisa Adams & Dr Sara MacDermott for inviting me to speak on their podcast Primary Care Knowledge Boost with Dr Laura Tinner. I discuss the medical practice of silencing & epistemic injustice pckb.org/e/tips-for-l...
Tips for listening, and how to avoid dismissing young women | Primary Care Knowledge Boost
In this really interesting episode, Doctors Lisa and Sara talk to Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan - Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine, and Dr Laura Tinner - Research Fellow in Centre for Public Heal...
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Two cases of severe #hyperglycemia with injectable CAB/RPV-LA: i-base.info/htb/53413 Though not listed as an adverse event, paper authors advise that anyone with a high BMI or even mildly increased #glycemia may need close monitoring. #HIV #HIVsky #EndoSky #MedSky #HIVtreatment #Cabenuva #Diabetes
The @bhiva.bsky.social 2026 EEDI Survey is out! It doesn’t take long to complete, if you’re a member and receive this email please take a moment to fill it in. We’re continuing to work to make BHIVA more inclusive and this will really help, thank you 🙏🏼 @drrageshri.bsky.social
A real treat to listen to Rageshri Dhairyawan presenting her book Unheard at the EPIC meeting yesterday #epistemicinjustice #philosophy #booksky Thanks @drrageshri.bsky.social for joining us!
I reviewed Charlotte Blease’s provocative new book “Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us—and How AI Could Save Lives” for @thelancet.com this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I reviewed Charlotte Blease’s provocative new book “Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us—and How AI Could Save Lives” for @thelancet.com this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I reviewed Charlotte Blease’s provocative new book “Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us—and How AI Could Save Lives” for @thelancet.com this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An artificial dichotomy
The value of doctors is up for debate in some quarters. The UK has seen backlash about role replacement by physician assistants and UK resident doctor strikes over pay and training posts. Meanwhile, t...
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I reviewed Charlotte Blease’s provocative new book “Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us—and How AI Could Save Lives” for @thelancet.com this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An artificial dichotomy
The value of doctors is up for debate in some quarters. The UK has seen backlash about role replacement by physician assistants and UK resident doctor strikes over pay and training posts. Meanwhile, t...
thelancet.com
Event-based #PrEP dosing for women: a challenge to #guidelines and an activist issue: i-base.info/htb/52959 Two new papers in @jidjournal.bsky.social offer the hope of simpler event-based dosing using only 4-5 pills. #HIVsky #HIVprevention #PrEP4women #HIV #PrEPguidelines #HIVguidelines
BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
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Some great work led by @drrageshri.bsky.social we have been involved in
Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan@drrageshri.bsky.social · 7mo ago*NEW PUBLICATION** What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic to help better support people stay engaged in HIV clinical care? A lot it seems! Delighted our first mixed methods paper from the London-based SHIELD study is published @hivmedicine.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
*NEW PUBLICATION** What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic to help better support people stay engaged in HIV clinical care? A lot it seems! Delighted our first mixed methods paper from the London-based SHIELD study is published @hivmedicine.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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*NEW PUBLICATION** What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic to help better support people stay engaged in HIV clinical care? A lot it seems! Delighted our first mixed methods paper from the London-based SHIELD study is published @hivmedicine.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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I haven’t been able to put this book down. @drrageshri.bsky.social names, in such a balanced way, so many of the tensions and barriers that exist for medical doctors and patients in the context of the NHS. I’m compelled to keep reading, but I’ll get nothing else done this weekend 😂 Buy this book!
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Incredible to deliver the Sydenham Lecture at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries this week! Thank you @gentlemedic.bsky.social for the invite.
Andrew Papanikitas@gentlemedic.bsky.social · 10mo agoTwo amazing medical authors discussing silencing of patients and meaning-making in medicine at the historic Apothecaries Hall on 28 October fyi @mja-uk.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social catalogue.apothecaries.org/product?cata...
Incredible to deliver the Sydenham Lecture at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries this week! Thank you @gentlemedic.bsky.social for the invite.
Andrew Papanikitas@gentlemedic.bsky.social · 10mo agoTwo amazing medical authors discussing silencing of patients and meaning-making in medicine at the historic Apothecaries Hall on 28 October fyi @mja-uk.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social catalogue.apothecaries.org/product?cata...
Some photos from the rather wonderful and very atmospheric @oldoptheatre.bsky.social this week, where I gave a talk on #Unheard voices in medicine. It was lovely to see some familiar faces and have a fantastic and detailed discussion! Would highly recommend visiting the museum.
Dr Dhairyawan's book 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing' goes deeper into this subject: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/rages... 3/3
Unheard
Have you ever felt unheard by your doctor? Been frustrated that they haven't understood your symptoms, that they have neglected your concerns? When Dr Rag...
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We were honoured to have Dr Dhairyawan as our keynote speaker at the BJGP Research & Publishing Conference earlier this year. You can watch her extraordinary talk on medical silencing here: youtu.be/ofLPVQjlEJo 2/3
Medical silencing keynote at BJGP conference 2025
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