What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery - The Secret GP - #202

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Oh, hello friends, welcome back. My guest today, I kind of don't know who my guest today is. His identity is being kept anonymous. He's a GP working for the NHS in the UK, and he's just released a book under the pseudonym Doctor Max Skittle. Basically today, you get to find out what it's like behind the scenes in your doctor's surgery. None of us really like taking a trip to the doctor, but it seems to not be always that fun for the people providing the health care either. So today, expect to learn why you should never take a picture of your bumhole to show your GP, why your doctor is always running late, how come you can never get a lunchtime appointment, how long Max spends with his finger inside of other patients per month, and much more. It's really cool. I enjoyed this episode. It was fun to do it with someone. I didn't see his face, the Skype conversation. I don't get to see what he looks like. I don't know where he lives. I don't know anything else. He's just an inner-city GP opening the doors into the world of what it's actually like in your doctor's surgery. In other news, the Modern Wisdom preview episode notes are now available. Head to chriswillex.com/preview to get a first look at the episode notes that I'm going to be providing for every episode moving forward once the Modern Wisdom Academy launches. This time, I chose the Ollie Marchon episode, which was super popular and had some real mic drop moments in it. You can go and check out all of the main learnings, the best takeaways, all of the quotes, and I would love and really appreciate your feedback. Should they be longer? Should they be shorter? Would you want them in a different format? Whatever it might be, chriswillex.com/preview, and you will get an exclusive first look at what the Modern Wisdom Academy is going to look like. I'm so excited to get this off the ground.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. This is a first where I'm actually recording with a guest who I don't know who it is. So what should I call you, Mr. GP, Doc?

**SPEAKER_2** (4:02)
No, I think, why don't you call me Max? I think that's a good starting point.

**Chris Williamson** (4:08)
Cool, so Max, which is the pseudonym, Monica, which you've used to write this book. So why are you anonymous?

**SPEAKER_2** (4:16)
Yeah, that's right.
So I guess my full anonymized name is Dr. Max Skittle and Max to everyone, including my patients. Why anonymous? Well, I think there's a couple of reasons. The first is to protect my patients. I mean, the whole, when you decide to write something like a waltz and all book, a medical biography, or sort of talking about your life and the job, you need to protect the confidentiality of your patients. And that's not just anonymizing them and changing ages and genders and ethnicities, but it's also about, I guess, protecting yourself. So by me being anonymous, it gives another layer of protection to my patients, and it probably stops me from getting fired as well. So it's a kind of a win-win.