The Rare Disease Podcast 4 Medics

Episode 8: Dr Sondra Butterworth on Inclusivity

December 09, 2021 Season 1 Episode 8
Episode 8: Dr Sondra Butterworth on Inclusivity
The Rare Disease Podcast 4 Medics
More Info
The Rare Disease Podcast 4 Medics
Episode 8: Dr Sondra Butterworth on Inclusivity
Dec 09, 2021 Season 1 Episode 8

Dr Sondra Butterworth is from a rare disease family, a carrier of a rare disease and her PhD focused on the quality of life and social support of people living with rare diseases. She talks to Lucy about what it's like to come from a poor, black, rare disease family in Cardiff and how she's turning both her personal and professional experiences into real change for rare disease communities.  Sondra is the founder of RareQoL and the Whose Voice is it Anyway campaign - started because some groups within the rare community feel that their voices go unheard #whosevoice

Also some RuPaul's Drag Race chat. RuPaul...if you're listening, we're your biggest fans.

RareQoL: https://rareqol.co.uk/
#WhoseVoice report: https://www.m4rd.org/2021/10/26/whose-voice/
Narrative Based Medicine review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5851389/
Rita Charon's Tedx on Narrative Based Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uc0jmUkA3E
No-one's Listening report on Sickle Cell Society's website: https://www.sicklecellsociety.org/no-ones-listening/
Kimberlé Crenshaw's talk on intersectionality: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en

Views, ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal to the individual and Medics4RareDiseases does not accept responsibility for those expressed by guests.

M4RD receives funding from commercial companies which it works independently from. M4RD's Partners and Funders do not accept responsibility for any views expressed in this podcast.

M4RD does not endorse any companies or products that it receives sponsorship from. For more information please see the show notes and www.m4rd.org/sponsors #DareToThinkRare

Show Notes

Dr Sondra Butterworth is from a rare disease family, a carrier of a rare disease and her PhD focused on the quality of life and social support of people living with rare diseases. She talks to Lucy about what it's like to come from a poor, black, rare disease family in Cardiff and how she's turning both her personal and professional experiences into real change for rare disease communities.  Sondra is the founder of RareQoL and the Whose Voice is it Anyway campaign - started because some groups within the rare community feel that their voices go unheard #whosevoice

Also some RuPaul's Drag Race chat. RuPaul...if you're listening, we're your biggest fans.

RareQoL: https://rareqol.co.uk/
#WhoseVoice report: https://www.m4rd.org/2021/10/26/whose-voice/
Narrative Based Medicine review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5851389/
Rita Charon's Tedx on Narrative Based Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uc0jmUkA3E
No-one's Listening report on Sickle Cell Society's website: https://www.sicklecellsociety.org/no-ones-listening/
Kimberlé Crenshaw's talk on intersectionality: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en

Views, ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal to the individual and Medics4RareDiseases does not accept responsibility for those expressed by guests.

M4RD receives funding from commercial companies which it works independently from. M4RD's Partners and Funders do not accept responsibility for any views expressed in this podcast.

M4RD does not endorse any companies or products that it receives sponsorship from. For more information please see the show notes and www.m4rd.org/sponsors #DareToThinkRare