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Ep78: The Advocate’s Journey
Episode 78
The core work of being a physician is demanding enough. But if you’re seeing patients come in day after day with ailments that have social determinan…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ep77: Deciding with Children
Episode 77
This episode is shared from the Essential Ethics podcast produced at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. It is presented by paediatric respir…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ep76: Making Amends- Medical Injury Part 3
Episode 76
This is the third podcast in a series about medical injury. First we talked about what victims of injury want to hear from the health system after su…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ep75: Feeling Guilty- Medical Injury Part 2
Episode 75
In the last episode we talked about what patients or their families want to hear after a iatrogenic injury. Despite best practice standards for open …
4 years, 10 months ago
Ep74: Saying Sorry- Medical Injury Part 1
Episode 74
Medical injury occurs at a rate of about 12 per cent of admissions, and errors without consequence at a higher rate still. According to Australian an…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ep73: Communicating a Pandemic
Episode 73
There are many layers of public health interventions that can reduce the rate of transmission of the novel coronavirus. Social distancing, mask weari…
5 years ago
Ep72: Modelling a pandemic
Episode 72
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to public attention, like never before, the work of public health physicians as well as epidemiologists, statistici…
5 years ago
Ep71: Voluntary Assisted Dying—what have we learned?
Episode 71
In 2017, Victoria was the first state in Australia to pass voluntary assisted legislation and has been followed by Western Australia, Tasmania and no…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep70: Zeroing in on “the renal troponin”
Episode 70
Acute Kidney Injury makes a greater contribution to early mortality than acute myocardial infarction and it's been argued we should consider the conc…
5 years, 3 months ago
Ep69: Gendered Medicine—Funding and Research
Episode 69
This is the third and final part of our series on gendered medicine. We step back and look at the way that health care and research are funded. It’s …
5 years, 5 months ago