Prescribe or Pass: The PoP Pod
Prescribe or Pass: The PoP Pod is the clinician edition of Prescribe or Pass an evidence-based podcast for pharmacists, pharmacy students and other clinicians who work with medicines.
Hosted by Australian pharmacist, educator and science communicator Kate Thomas, each episode explores one medicine, one condition or one clinical concept, explaining not just what we do, but why we do it.
Expect practical pharmacology, clinical reasoning, patient counselling, common misconceptions, adverse effects, ethical reflection and the questions that arise in real-world practice.
Some episodes stand alone. Others form structured educational series, with reflective questions to support continuing professional development.
Clear, practical and independent, PoP Pod helps clinicians build confidence, challenge assumptions and communicate medicines information more effectively.
Prescribe or Pass: The PoP Pod
Latest Episodes
Nausea and Vomiting: Choosing the Right Antiemetic for the Cause
Nausea and vomiting are common in palliative care but they are not diagnoses in themselves.In this episode, we look at how to work backwards from the symptom and ask what is actually causing it. Gastric stasis, opioids, constipation, met...
Breathlessness in Palliative Care: Why Morphine Can Help When Oxygen Doesn’t
Why can someone feel profoundly breathless even when their oxygen levels are normal? And why might morphine help more than oxygen?In Episode 4 of our palliative care series, we unpack the difference between breathlessness and hypoxaemia,...
Opioids Without the Fear: Morphine, Oxycodone, Fentanyl and More
Opioids are some of the most important medicines in palliative care and some of the most misunderstood.In this episode, we take a practical deep dive into morphine, oxycodone, hydromorphone, fentanyl, buprenorphine and methadone, includi...