Pomegranate Health
Pomegranate Health is a podcast about the culture of medicine. You'll hear insights from clinicians, researchers, and advocates as they tackle important questions — like how to make difficult clinical and ethical decisions without being influenced by bias, how to communicate better with patients and colleagues, and how to provide healthcare that’s both efficient and fair.
If you're a Fellow of the RACP, time spent listening can be counted toward your CPD hours. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series can help you prepare for your long case clinical exams.
This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal sharing their latest research. The [Journal Club] episodes give RACP researchers a space to talk through their work published in other academic journals. And for Basic Trainees, the [Case Report] series can help you prepare for your long case clinical exams.
Find out more at the website www.racp.edu.au/podcast and get in touch via the address podcast@racp.edu.au
Pomegranate Health
Ep135: “Wherefore a Pomegranate?” and other classics from the last ten years
Pomegranate Health has been streaming since June 2015, so we’re going to share a few more classic eps from the last ten years. First up, presenter Mic Cavazzini digs deep to find the origins of the pomegranate, featured not just on this podcast but on the crest of the RACP. The journey starts 500 years ago at an unlikely place, the marriage of Henry VIII and the first of his six wives. You’ll find much of the pageantry reproduced at the web page.
We then hear from the wonderful staff at Marrabinya, a support service in western NSW that helps connect Aboriginal patients to specialist consultations. As heard in episode 53, and a handful of others, healthy equity for First Nations people is a value embedded in the mission of the RACP. At Pomegranate Health we also try to support physician wellbeing and career development. One podcast towards that end was Episode 55: Starting out in Private Practice. We hear a pep talk from veteran rheumatologist Louis McGuigan about when and how to back yourself in such a business venture.
Another episode with a practical theme was number 56 titled “Billing in Byzantium” where we heard how it is that a few billion dollars are inappropriately leaked from Medicare every year. Finally, in a sample from Episode 69. we hear about some of the structural bias in the health system that results in a gendered understanding of drug effects. All of these episodes and more, are now available on YouTube, as well as all the usual podcast browsing apps.
Sampled in this retrospective episode:
Desley Mason, Possum Swinton and Kym Lees from Ep53: Marrabinya
Dr Louis McGuigan from Ep55: Starting out in private practice
Margaret Faux PhD from Ep56: Billing in Byzantium
Professor Zoe Wainer from Ep69: Gendered Medicine 2- Funding and Research
Production Credits
Produced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Fair Game’ by Mizlo, ‘Salat Alsabah’ by Feras Charestan, ‘Your Wave’ by Cospe, ‘Dusty Delta Day’ by Lennon Hutton, ‘Corn Candy’ by Guustavv and ‘After the Freak Show’ by Luella Gren. Music courtesy of FreeMusicArchive includes JS Bach's ‘March Fur Die Arche’ performed by The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and ‘Notre Dame’ by Jahzarr. Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ performed by Trinity College under Creative Commons licence from archive.org.
Editorial feedback kindly provided by RACP staff Kathryn Smith, Arnika Martus and Ruby Nelson.
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