After a four week hiatus, episode 6 and the first of 2022 is finally here. It’s worth the wait, I promise.

Our guest is Alistair Barton, a Project Director in a Medical Communications agency. What does that mean I hear you cry?! Well, I didn’t know either and it’s probably not quite what you expected either.

This conversation and Alistair’s career is a peek behind the curtain into a sector that in many ways has been unavoidable through the pandemic. But for which very few of us really understand what’s going on behind the scenes. This conversation explains some of this and shows the enormous lengths and thousands of people involved in every single medical trial.

You can hear in Alistair’s voice just what an incredibly warm and conscientious person he is. He describes himself as ‘paid to be a control freak’ and runs a podcast called Picking at Perfection (more about that in this episode) so you can imagine the high standards he holds himself to. Despite this, Alistair was completely open about the highs and lows of the industry, which is truly refreshing.

Just a heads up, there are a few moments of slightly glitchy audio, sorry for that!

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