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	Podcast:		Private Passions
	Episode:		Clare Marx
	Category:		Music
	Duration:		00:37:00
	Publish Date:		2022-04-24 12:00:00
	Description:		In 2014 Dame Clare Marx became the first woman President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and, five years later, she was the first woman to become the Chair of the General Medical Council. When she started practising as an orthopaedic surgeon, in 1993, there were very few women surgeons and, shockingly, that’s still the case: men outnumber women eight to one as surgical consultants. So Clare Marx has overcome significant prejudice to reach the top of her field; in 2007 she received a CBE and in 2018 a DBE for services to medicine. But last summer she announced her resignation from the General Medical Council after she was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer. She’s sixty-eight. In a public letter she said: “Since receiving this news, I've been reminded once again of the importance and power of kindness in everything we do as doctors.” In a moving and uplifting interview, Clare Marx talks to Michael Berkeley about her pioneering medical career, the shock of her diagnosis, and the music that’s sustained her. Choices include Britten’s “Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, to remind her of her home in Suffolk; Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto; Beethoven’s Ode to Joy; Verdi’s Requiem; and Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. Pancreatic Cancer UK www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk Information and support: Cancer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1KkkxvD0G1w4l294QCrQZbh/information-and-support-cancer Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
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