Pomegranate Health
Pomegranate Health is a podcast about the culture of medicine. You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss all aspects of professionalism and quality improvement in healthcare. This includes clinical ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable systems. For a sampler of these diverse themes of professional practice take a listen to Episode 132 and Episode 125.
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Pomegranate Health
Ep143: On the ground with MSF
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Médecins Sans Frontières has projects in more than 70 countries that might be affected by natural disasters, armed conflict or disease outbreaks. Its clinics see over two million emergency room admissions a year and another 16 million outpatient consults. Emergency Paediatrics consultant Josephine Goodyer and ID consultant Tasnim Hasan are two of more than a hundred Australians and New Zealanders who contributed to MSF’s missions last year. Between them they have covered practice settings as varied as Kiribati, South Sudan and Gaza. In this interview they describe the experience shipping out with MSF on their first assignment and then the kinds of responsibilities one is given with more experience. We’ll also hear how gaps of six months or more affect career progression and financial stability back home.
Chapters
3:05 Starting out with MSF
15:04 Practicing in a conflict zone
50:53 Career impacts
Guests
Dr Josephine Goodyer FRACP (Canberra Hospital; Australian National University)
Dr Tasnim Hasan FRACP (Western Sydney LHD; University of Sydney)
Dr Aidan Tan (Sydney Children’s Hospital Network)
Production
Produced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Intimacy’ by Alex Kehm, ‘At the end of nothing’ by Silver Maple, ‘Below the Horizon’ by Dawn, Dawn, Dawn and ‘Nagba Algooah’ by Ebo Krdum. Image by Pablo Tosco ©2018 used with permission by MSF. Editorial feedback kindly provided by members of the podcast editorial group Dr Aidan Tan, Dr Stephen Bacchi, Dr Rahul Barmanray, Dr Maansi Arora and Dr Leon Li.
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