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
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...
Pain in Palliative Care: It’s Not Just About Morphine
Pain in palliative care is rarely as simple as “give more morphine.”In this episode of Prescribe or Pass: The PoP Pod, we start with the most important step: working out what kind of pain the patient is actually experiencing.We ex...
Palliative Care Is Not Just End-of-Life Care
Palliative care is often misunderstood as the point where active treatment stops and “nothing more can be done.” But that is not what modern palliative care looks like.In this first episode of our new palliative care series, we unpack wh...
Beyond MHT: Supplements, Strength and What Actually Matters
In the final episode of our MHT series, we look beyond hormones and into the booming menopause wellness market.Do phytoestrogens, soy isoflavones, red clover, wild yam, black cohosh, magnesium, collagen and creatine actually help, and ho...