RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendations From the Sixth Form:
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Tom Curran POLITICS AMBASSADOR
For those interested in politics and current affairs, Gabriel Gatehouse’s The Coming Storm is a must-listen podcast. Across eight main episodes, two episodes covering the recent US mid-term elections and a guest interview by Louis Theroux, Gatehouse covers the successful insanity of Trump and his supporters. An unbelievable election campaign administration and attempts to overthrow democracy begin to make unsettling amounts of sense when the conspiracy theories that made it all possible are unwound. Through interviews with political experts, various witnesses to the described events and the profoundly uneducated, Gatehouse achieves a rare glimpse into America’s most bizarre presidency. What do we really know about what the doctor says is right? ‘Bleeding Edge’ is an eye-opening exposé of the dangers of the rush to innovate in the $400 billion medical device industry. Filmmaker Kirby Dick’s scathing coverage focuses on the harm brought to patients when insufficient regulation and self-interested FDA executives meant widely available devices were causing irreparable damage; chrome-cobalt hip transplants leaked toxic metals into patients’ bodies, women’s birth control devices would fracture into tiny fragments inside them and the ‘Da Vinci’ surgical robot was being used by untrained and mediocre surgeons. Beyond highlighting the dangers of the devices, the documentary delves further in highlighting how the profit incentive for firms is outweighing their duty to protect their customers and patients. The cover up of these issues goes to the very core of the medical profession. The 2018 documentary was added to Entertainment Weekly’s ‘documentaries that have changed the world’ list: if that is not reason enough to watch it, I do not know what is. Olivia Lada Moczarski FOUNDER OF THE SIXTH FORM LAW SOCIETY
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