Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 11 segments
In this episode of the Unprescribed podcast, we welcome Professor Sir Sam Everington, GP at the Bromley by Bow Health Partnership in Tower Hamlets and Non-Executive Director of NHS England. The…
Sam EveringtonGuest
Jacob HaddadHost
So the arrest came from a great friend of mine, and we published lots of research over the years.
Professor Anis Yishmail was talking to me when I was a very junior doctor and saying that he'd been in the operating theater and the surgeon as Usual they say what they think there's not a turnoff button often and said well It's very simple.
If I've got somebody with an Indian surname, I throw the application in the bin.
Interestingly, only one hospital picked up that it was a fraudulent application.
It was quite intimidating on one level, but then we published in the British Medical Journal.
And it was a lovely moment about two months later where the superintendent called us in and, you know when they're telling you off, but they do it with a sort of smile and they know they have to do it, but...
But it was a very seminal piece of research, which was the first in some ways to highlight race discrimination in the NHS.
And then the other one, so as a young junior doctor, I campaigned against cigarette advertisements.
You know, I had a 40-year-old patient die in front of me with two young children, lung cancer caused by smoking.
And I was outraged, actually, at the tobacco industry and the way it portrayed smoking.
You know, there was advertisements which was all about, you're going to be beautiful, you're going to be sexy if you smoke.
These ones of like your doctor's smoke, you know, chooses this brand of cigarette.
And there was one where the Duke of Windsor who died in 1937, his face was used on a cigarette box.
And some of this was even after we began to realize actually the awful effects of cigarette smoking.
So the arrest came from a great friend of mine, and we published lots of research over the years.
Professor Anis Yishmail was talking to me when I was a very junior doctor and saying that he'd been in the operating theater and the surgeon as Usual they say what they think there's not a turnoff button often and said well It's very simple.
If I've got somebody with an Indian surname, I throw the application in the bin.
Interestingly, only one hospital picked up that it was a fraudulent application.
It was quite intimidating on one level, but then we published in the British Medical Journal.
And it was a lovely moment about two months later where the superintendent called us in and, you know when they're telling you off, but they do it with a sort of smile and they know they have to do it, but...
But it was a very seminal piece of research, which was the first in some ways to highlight race discrimination in the NHS.
And then the other one, so as a young junior doctor, I campaigned against cigarette advertisements.
You know, I had a 40-year-old patient die in front of me with two young children, lung cancer caused by smoking.
And I was outraged, actually, at the tobacco industry and the way it portrayed smoking.
You know, there was advertisements which was all about, you're going to be beautiful, you're going to be sexy if you smoke.
These ones of like your doctor's smoke, you know, chooses this brand of cigarette.
And there was one where the Duke of Windsor who died in 1937, his face was used on a cigarette box.
And some of this was even after we began to realize actually the awful effects of cigarette smoking.
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