Doctor, researcher
and author
Rageshri is a doctor, researcher and author. She is an NHS Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine based in London. Her clinical work, research, writing and advocacy focus on improving health equity and she is a sought-after speaker on this topic. Rageshri’s own experiences of being unheard as a patient and her work with minoritised communities, have inspired her to speak up about injustice in healthcare.
Rageshri is the author of Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing and has contributed an essay to the anthology No One Talks About This Stuff. She is an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word writer awardee. Rageshri has written for The Lancet, BMJ Leader and Media Diversified and has appeared on The Victoria Derbyshire Show, Channel 5 News, BBC Woman’s Hour, BBC World Service and BBC Sounds, among others.
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NEW RELEASE BOOK
Unheard:
The Medical Practice
of Silencing
Have you ever felt unheard by your doctor?
Published 4th July 2024.
When Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan was admitted to hospital as a patient she didn't receive the pain medication that she requested, despite her being senior doctor. It was in that moment she understood that something was deeply wrong with our healthcare system. Doctors aren't listening, and it is making us unwell.
In this book, Dr Dhairyawan takes us on a journey to show how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine since its inception. Western medicine has been built on the assumption that power should always lie with the doctor, and that patients should be powerless to decisions made about their bodies if they are made to make them well. This, alongside the prejudices of society, has led to dramatic gaps in medical knowledge.
Dr Dhairyawan offers a way to reshape our health system for a future where active and engaged listening is the new frontier.
A timely, shocking and engaging exposé of the medical world, this book is a much-needed prescription for change.
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Books
No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood.
Edited by Kat Brown.
Rageshri has contributed an essay ‘Work In Progress’ to this anthology about her experiences of coming to terms with infertility and the importance of recognising both grief and resilience. No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents. A place to share their journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to find courage in the darkness of tragedies which happen every day yet are brushed under the carpet.
So, we hear from a stepmother who wrestles with infertility. A husband and wife each tell their experience of losing their baby. A lesbian comes of age at a time when gay people rarely become parents. A father finds loss to be his unlikely superpower. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder impacts a person’s choices about having a family. A black woman unpacks ancestral shame while finding renewed purpose. And each person shares how they lived through it.
This captivatingly beautiful, profound and honest anthology opens a much-needed conversation about society, family and honouring the missing children we will never forget.
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No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents: it is a place to share journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to find courage in the darkness of tragedies which happen every day yet are brushed under the carpet. This captivatingly beautiful, profound and honest anthology opens a much-needed conversation about society and family. Journalist Kat Brown, editor of the anthology and author of It’s Not a Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult, speaks to two contributors to the book: Alice Jolly and Rageshri Dhairyawan, about honouring the missing children they will never forget.
