{"id":1381,"date":"2025-05-22T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/explore-the-books-written-by-our-conference-speakers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:23:31","slug":"explore-the-books-written-by-our-conference-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/explore-the-books-written-by-our-conference-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the books written by our conference speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We welcomed a stunning line-up of speakers to our inaugural conference and many of them are published authors too.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019re bringing together a list of the books written by the contributors to our Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference.\r\n\r\nDr David Sellu, who opened the conference, tells his extraordinary story in Did He Save Lives? A Surgeon\u2019s Story<\/a><\/em>.\r\n\r\nFounder and director of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, Dr Shireen Kassam, has written Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice<\/a><\/em>.\r\n\r\nThe books is a guide to the uses, benefits and practical application of a plant-based diet for health professionals, taking a holistic and a systems-based approach.\r\n\r\nEmma Wilkinson, freelance health journalist and vice chair of the Medical Journalists\u2019 Association, explores the physiological and psychological differences between the sexes in Ultra Women: The Trailblazers Defying Sexism in Sport<\/a><\/em>.\r\n\r\nNHS GP and media medic Dr Punam Krishan released her second children\u2019s book, You and Your Body<\/a><\/em>, in January.\r\n\r\nIt followed her debut book How to be a Doctor and Other Life-saving Jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference speaker books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The panel discussion on the issues facing general practice were built around Why Can\u2019t I See My GP?<\/a><\/em> by DAUK\u2019s vice chair Dr Ellen Welch.\r\n\r\nThe book is central to DAUK\u2019s campaign work and MP briefings on the GP crisis. All royalties are donated to DAUK.\r\n\r\nDr Rachel Clarke, NHS palliative care doctor, is the author of multiple Sunday Times bestselling books about medicine.\r\n\r\nHer most recent, The Story of a Heart<\/a><\/em>, tells the tale of a heart transplant that changed UK legal history, while Breathtaking<\/a><\/em>, which revealed how NHS staff confronted the height of the pandemic, was adapted into a major ITV television series.\r\n\r\nYou Don\u2019t Have to be Made to Work Here<\/a><\/em>, was a Sunday Times bestseller by Dr Benji Waterhouse, an NHS consultant psychiatrist, and award-winning comedian and writer.\r\n\r\nIn it, Dr Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine\u2019s most mysterious and controversial speciality.\r\n\r\nVisit the Book Shelf page<\/a> on the DAUK website for more details of book offers for members.\r\n\r\nSupport our work by donating to our GoFundMe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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