Dr Rageshri Dhairwayan is an NHS Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine. Her book 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing' takes us on a journey through history to show how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine from its inception. Western medicine has been built on the assumption that power should always lie with the doctor, and that patients should be powerless to decisions made about their body if it is done to make them well. This, alongside the pr...