Show Notes
Ivor Popovich, the young ICU doctor who wrote A Dim Prognosis, gives us an insider's look at the best and worst of medicine and healthcare in NZ. He balances stories of bullying, abuse, corruption, overwork, and understaffing, with inspiring stories of seeing lives saved, deep connections with patients and whanau, and growing as a person during the approximately 14 years between starting med school and leaving as a fully-qualified specialist. Along the way, there are insights into health policy, politics, poverty, and ethnicity that make this book required reading for everyone from patients to politicians.
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A conversation with doctor/poet/researchers Glenn Colquhoun and Art Nahill, who have just finished the final part of their 'Hikoi 4 Health'.
Environmental epidemiologist Dr Tim Chambers spoke with The Frontline about how nitrate runoffs is affecting our national drinking water supply. How much of a risk is it? What can communities and households do about it? Why is it happening and how do we control it?
After 30 years as a GP and writer, Lucy O'Hagan now has a solo show coming to theatres around Aotearoa. Lucy shares with The Frontline audience her perspective on the patient-doctor interaction as an act of storytelling.
Dr Erik Monasterio is a forensic psychiatrist with a long and illustrious career as a leader in forensic mental health, a speciality that works at the intersection of the criminal justice system and the health system.
Today we talk with patient advocate and healthcare researcher, Dr Malcolm Mulholland, founder of Patient Voice Aotearoa and leader within Kaitiaki Hauora, Together for Public Health, an advocacy group fighting the privatisation of New Zealand's public healthcare system.