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Molly Hunt

friend · in 9 sources (2017–2020)

Speaks in 5 sources; this page lists what is said about them.

Sources by year: 2017: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2020: 2

Also known as: Molly

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Charlotte (10) · Euthanasia (6) · Assisted suicide (5) · Four principles of medical ethics (3) · Medical ethics (3) · Imperial College London (2) · United Kingdom (3) · Best interests (2) · Taimur Abdaal (2) · University of Cambridge (5)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-06-07 · My Favorite Mechanical Keyboard - IQUnix F96 Coral — Ali still sometimes uses his quieter Apple Magic Keyboard on Zoom calls or when his housemate Molly is asleep after a night shift. — 00:01:20
  • 2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Ali says neither he nor Molly Hunt has a medical specialty yet. — creator comment
    • Ali and Molly Hunt have known each other since 2012, when they were in the same year and college studying medicine at Cambridge; eight years on they live together. — 00:00:28
    • Molly Hunt is a junior doctor in the Cambridge region who went to medical school with Ali at Cambridge. — 00:00:28
    • Answering viewers who keep asking, Ali says he and Molly Hunt are not dating and that Molly is in a happy relationship. — 00:01:24
    • Molly Hunt's least favourite aspect of being a junior doctor is the logistics of the rota and annual leave, such as the low-level anxiety of having to beg for leave for a friend's wedding a year away. — 00:03:42
    • Molly Hunt: At 10 Molly Hunt was diagnosed with bone cancer in her hip; she had about three months of intense chemotherapy and then a hip and femur replacement. — 00:04:46
    • Molly Hunt: After her first operation various things went wrong for Molly Hunt: her hip replacement had to be replaced and more of the hip was replaced, with many operations and long spells in hospital. — 00:05:26
    • Molly Hunt missed most of year five at school, half of year six for another operation and half of year seven. — 00:05:59
    • Molly Hunt says her illness showed her a possible career and exposed her to medicine, which is probably why she is a doctor now. (hedged) — 00:06:49
    • Molly Hunt says her illness made her really appreciate the good things and people around her, but also makes her fear the future more, because things have gone wrong before. — 00:07:32
    • Molly Hunt says the Over the Wall camps started rebuilding her confidence; since then, when something is hard for her, she looks for a way around it and tries not to let her disability stop her. — 00:10:27
  • …and 19 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2018

  • 2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — a guest: In the case Charlotte and Molly present, Lillian, a long-term patient of her consultant, suffers terribly with arthritis and is a palliative patient who will never get better. — 00:00:58
    • a guest: Charlotte and Molly call "passive euthanasia", meaning withdrawing or withholding treatment so that someone dies, an unhelpful term: euthanasia is illegal, while withdrawing treatment in a patient's best interests is good clinical practice. — 00:05:00
    • a guest: Charlotte and Molly say end-of-life cases like Dr Cox's are never clear-cut and can be fought and decided differently in the courts depending on the situation. — 00:13:42
  • 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — a guest: Charlotte and Molly say Lord Falconer's bill was thrown out of the House of Commons, where MPs voted overwhelmingly against it. — 00:15:37
    • a guest: Charlotte and Molly say legalising assisted suicide will keep being brought up again and again because it is a really emotive subject. — 00:15:37
    • Molly Hunt: Arguing for legalisation, Molly says that under the principle of beneficence some would argue a doctor causes more harm by letting a suffering patient live longer. — 00:19:43
    • Molly Hunt: Molly argues that not allowing someone to commit suicide infringes their autonomy, one of the pillars of medical practice. — 00:20:11
    • Molly Hunt: Molly counters that denying access to physician-assisted suicide discriminates against vulnerable people who cannot end their lives without help. — 00:20:55
    • Molly Hunt: Molly argues from consequentialism that stopping suffering and enabling someone to do what they cannot do alone could outweigh the act of helping end a life. — 00:22:45
    • Molly Hunt: Molly asks why withdrawing treatment, such as a ventilator or life-sustaining medication, is legal while euthanasia is not, when both have the same consequence. — 00:22:45
  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali would name his friend Paul as the smartest person he knows, good at the logic of games like Avalon or Mafia, though Callum, Jake, Molly and Katherine are smart too. — 00:29:54
  • …and 1 statement more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2017

  • 2017-10-01 · Applying to Medicine at Oxford or Cambridge - Questions to ask yourself, open days, stereotypes — recommendation: Molly Hunt: Molly recommends going to a university open day if you can, saying open days are really informative. — 00:03:00
    • Molly Hunt: Molly says she was not keen on Cambridge, thinking she would not be good enough and that it was a different world, until her parents made her go to an open day. — 00:03:05
    • Molly Hunt: At the Cambridge open day Molly saw visitors and student guides just like her, which gave her hope that a normal person could go there. — 00:03:22
    • Molly Hunt: Molly recommends seeing as many Cambridge colleges as you can at an open day, since Cambridge has so many colleges. — 00:03:35
  • 2017-12-14 · How to answer Medical Ethics interview questions — Molly Hunt: Under non-maleficence, Molly says the surgery itself could harm the woman: every treatment has side effects, complications or risks, which doctors must grapple with. — 00:10:04
    • Molly Hunt: Molly says that when deciding what is in a patient's best interests you must weigh the harm a treatment could cause, not just the harm of not treating. — 00:10:33
    • Molly Hunt: Molly says that beyond the broad ethical issues you should think practically about how you would handle the case as a doctor, such as sitting down with the patient to discuss risks and benefits. — 00:14:24
    • Molly Hunt: Molly says that if the bariatric surgery is a risk-benefit decision, it ultimately lies in the patient's hands, with the doctor's guidance on both risks and benefits. — 00:14:53
  • 2017-12-21 · Consent, Capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses - Medical Ethics & Law for interviews — Molly Hunt: Molly explains that an advance directive is written by the patient while they have capacity and says what they would and would not consent to in the future. — 00:18:34
    • Molly Hunt: Molly says an advance directive refusing life-saving treatment must be signed, dated, co-signed by a witness and must state specifically that the patient refuses life-saving treatment. — 00:19:03
    • Molly Hunt: Molly says a lasting power of attorney is either for health and wellbeing or financial, and a financial LPA makes no difference to medical decisions. — 00:19:33
    • Molly Hunt: Molly says that with a health and wellbeing LPA the patient has nominated someone to decide for them, and doctors must be satisfied that this person acts in the patient's best interests. — 00:20:18
  • …and 3 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

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