HeyJaredOT conversations
This is a UK-based Occupational Therapy podcast expressing personal clinical experiences, views, and aspirations for occupational therapy practice in the UK.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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OT, Money, and Meaning: A Hard Look at Our Professional Value (opens the original)
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In this episode of Occupational Therapy Conversations, I step back and look at occupational therapy not just as a caring profession, but as a trade. I talk about the core process of OT practice — assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and discharge — and why understanding this matters, especially for therapists working in the NHS. I reflect on how being salaried within a large public system can sometimes disconnect therapists from the commercial value of what they actually do. This episod
Gender Service and OT (opens the original)
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In this episode of Occupational Therapy Conversations, I reflect on gender service as a developing specialist area and ask a difficult but important question: which profession is actually best placed to hold key parts of this work? I explore the shift from a centralised, medically led model toward a more regional and holistic approach, and I argue that occupational therapy has a far stronger place in this space than many people realise. From identity, roles, habits, values, self-management, and
Understand VA and VV ECMO (opens the original)
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Big machine. Big lines. Very sick patient. But what is ECMO actually doing? In this episode, Hao unpacks VV and VA ECMO in plain, human language — from the femoral vein to the internal jugular vein, from the femoral artery to the aorta, and the real difference between supporting lungs and supporting circulation. If ECMO has ever sounded intimidating, this is the episode that strips it down and makes it teachable. #ECMO #VVECMO #VAECMO #CriticalCare #ICU #CardiorespiratorySupport #RespiratoryFail
Bamford Classification for Stroke (opens the original)
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What exactly is the Bamford Classification, and why does it still matter when we talk about stroke? In this episode, we break it down in a way that actually makes sense. No overcomplicated lecture, no dry textbook energy — just a clear walk through of the four classic stroke syndromes: TACS, PACS, LACS, and POCS. We talk about what the classification is really looking at, how it links clinical signs to patterns of brain injury, and why it became such a useful bedside way of thinking. More import
Thoracic Surgeries Simplified (opens the original)
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In this episode, we talk about thoracic surgeries in different types of thoracic surgeries. We first looked at the anatomy as a review and then we explored the concerns of occupational therapy in this clinical area.
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