Dr Amir Khan talks to SuffolkNews ahead of his show in Suffolk next month
London, Newcastle, Bury St Edmunds. . . Dr Amir Khan, full time GP, author and TV doctor, has it all figured out when it comes to his upcoming tour of his show: Doctor in the House.
Chatting ahead of his appearance at The Apex on May 23, the resident doctor on ITV’s Lorraine and Good Morning Britain, explained: “I did this one off gig in Leeds back in October, we did it to raise money for the flood victims in Pakistan.
“It was a show full of all sorts of different things and it did really well.
“I wasn’t planning on going on tour but then the team behind the show said ‘let’s think of some other places we could take this’ and I went, “I only want to go to really beautiful places.”
“That’s why I am coming to Bury St Edmunds, I’ve never been before and I am really looking forward to it.”
Dr Amir will be taking the opportunity to catch up with an old school friend who now lives in the town and is working as a surgeon, they haven’t seen each other for 20 years.
He remembered: “We used to be really good friends, we sat next to each other in biology class.”
Those watching the show, that are fans of Dr Amir’s book, Doctor in the House, are promised ‘brand new stories’ from within his GP surgery and across the wider NHS.
“It does get political, because working in the NHS now, with everything that's happening, the lack of investment, the strikes, all of that needs to be addressed,” said Dr Amir.
However the GP who works in inner city Bradford promises it won’t all be serious and there will be plenty of funny moments for his audience to enjoy.
He said: “We will have lots of audience participation as well, they can ask me questions, clinical and non clinical.”
“When we did it (the show) in Leeds we had a whole host of questions come in.
“Working as a GP you are used to the weird and wonderful but actually on this I am expecting weird - the weirder the better.”
“We are lifting taboos, we will be talking about things that people might find uncomfortable, we will be talking about dry vaginas, floppy penises, all that stuff.
“And why do you have an itchy bottom sometimes - that is a question I will be answering."
Alongside getting their questions answered, the audience can get involved with polls, with Dr Amir keen the show is as interactive as possible.
Ahead of the release of his new novel: How Not to Have an Arranged Marriage, Dr Amir will be discussing ‘’growing up as a British, Asian person’ and ‘all the cultural juxtapositions that go along with that’.
To Dr Amir’s thousands of Twitter followers and fans, his mother Mama Khan will be no stranger and she will be mentioned in some of his stories on the night.
Dr Amir joked: “She won’t be there, I wouldn’t be able to say half the stuff I am going to say if she was present.
“I will be talking about funny stories growing up, then and now.”
Money raised from the Doctor in the House Tour will go to the victims of the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
Speaking to his audience of the show he said: “People can come and have a good time, they’ll laugh, they’ll be educated,
“They won’t be offended, that’s not my thing, and they will be raising money for a good cause.”
Dr Amir Khan is bringing his show to The Apex in Bury St Edmunds on May 23, at 7.30pm.