The People Behind the Numbers: Dr Padmasayee Papineni on TB Care, Stigma & Social Support

Dr Padmasayee Papineni, Consultant and Co‑Clinical Director in Infectious Diseases at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, joins Dr Jack Callum to discuss the lived experience of tuberculosis care through narrative medicine. The conversation centres on her 2022 Lancet Wakley Prize–winning essay “Directly Observed Therapy,” which follows socially vulnerable patients navigating TB…