Playing Doctors & Nurses

What happens when you step away from the day-to-day of clinic life and give yourself space to think bigger? In this episode of Playing Doctors and Nurses, we’re taking you behind the scenes of our Hosted Malta experience — including a live recorded diary whilst there - what it was really like, the conversations that challenged our thinking, the lessons we’re bringing back to clinic, and why steppi...

From Calpol to Consults: Our Girls Tell All What’s it really like growing up with a doctor and nurse for parents? In this episode of Playing Doctors and Nurses, we hand over the microphone to our daughters for an honest, funny, and occasionally exposing conversation about life behind the scenes of a medical family. From dramatic childhood injuries, failed attempts at faking illness, and funny fami...

You Asked… We Answered Nothing’s Off Limits In this episode, we’re handing the mic over to you. From clinic questions to career journeys, family life to the things people don’t usually say out loud — nothing was off the table. We answer the questions you’ve been curious about, sharing honest reflections on building a life and business together, navigating parenthood alongside demanding careers, an...

Medicine is often portrayed as serious, intense and emotionally heavy and indeed our last episode focused around the emotional side — but let us taken you in a different direction. Anyone who’s worked in healthcare knows there’s another side too. In this episode of Playing Doctors and Nurses, we share the lighter, funnier moments that stay with you just as vividly as the serious ones. From patient...

In this episode of Playing Doctors and Nurses, We open up about a side of medicine that is rarely spoken about — the emotional weight that comes with caring for people at their most vulnerable. Drawing on our experiences in high-pressure environments such as A&E, we reflect on moments of heightened emotion, loss and challenging situations that stay with you long after a shift ends. We explore...

In this episode of Playing Doctors and Nurses, we rewind to a chapter filled with night shifts, nappies and two little girls who kept us on our toes. We open up about what life really looked like when we were balancing demanding hospital roles, raising a young family and making the big decision to leave Scotland behind and start a new life in Nottinghamshire. We talk honestly about the exhaustion,...

In our very first episode of Playing Doctors and Nurses, we’re taking you right back to the beginning — to a busy A&E department in Scotland where two very young healthcare professionals accidentally stumbled into something a lot bigger than either of us expected. We share the story of how we met on shift, the early impressions (some flattering… some definitely not!) that set the tone for ever...