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
Episodes
134 episodes
[IMJ On-Air] Microbleeds and Memory
Cerebral microbleeds are a finding on MRI that are usually asymptomatic. There are two main aetiological pathways, one occurring as a result of uncontrolled hypertension and the other from the accumulation of amyloid-beta peptide. The link betw...
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Episode 134
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46:44
[Case Report] 46yo with psychosis and cold intolerance
A 46-year old man is admitted to hospital following a first time presentation of psychosis that involved barricading himself inside a neighbour’s home. At admission he appears disorganised with slow movements and speech. His rambling reveals bi...
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Episode 133
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23:10
Ep132: Ten Years of Pomegranate Health
Pomegranate Health marks ten years of podcasting since its launch in June 2015. This episode will be one of two samplers that dip into the back catalogue of 131 episodes to showcase some of the most compelling stories. You’ll hear how podcast t...
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Episode 132
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33:42
Ep131: The semantics of CPR
In this podcast we discuss low-value care that has emerged from a decay in the specificity of the terms “cardiac arrest” and “cardiopulmonary resuscitation.” Patients who experience cardiac arrest in hospital are rarely more than a minute or tw...
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Episode 131
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55:17
Ep130: "The motherhood penalty"
Despite filling more than half of places in Australian medical schools, women represent 45 per cent of all medical practitioners and just 36 per cent of specialists. Female representation dwindles further in many areas of clinical leadership, p...
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Episode 130
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54:55
[Case Report] 65yo with ST elevation during AF ablation procedure
ST elevation is clearly a worrying finding that can herald life-threatening conditions, such as ST elevation myocardial infarction. But not all ST-elevations are created equal, and Trainees would benefit from considering a broader number of cau...
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Episode 129
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26:21
Ep128: Brushing off the cobwebs
There is evidence that six months or more off the job leads to some loss of practical skills and knowledge and certainly, many doctors report a loss of self-confidence. People take time out from medical practice for many different reasons but c...
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Episode 128
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31:36
[Case Report] 74yo with dyspnoea after AF ablation
In this episode we hear about an emergency presentation to a South Australian hospital, of a 74-year-old male with shortness of breath. The curve ball is that he had undergone ablation for drug-refractory atrial fibrillation less than two weeks...
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Episode 127
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27:35
Ep126: Trying times for Māori medics
In Aotearoa-New Zealand, the proportion of doctors identifying as Māori has doubled from where it was a decade ago to over 5 percent. But there is still a long way to go before the workforce is representative of the broader population which is ...
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Episode 126
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45:21
[Case Report] 52yo with hand clumsiness after Chiari operation
This case report comes to you from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a huge teaching hospital that serves the Harvard Medical School. The 52-year-old female presented with clumsiness and paresthesia of the right hand that had persisted fo...
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Episode 125
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27:33
Ep124: Pleural medicine comes of age
Professor Gary Lee established the first dedicated pleural service in the southern hemisphere in 2009, at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth. He says that pleural disease has finally come to be regarded as an area of subspeciality inter...
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Episode 124
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57:51
[Case Report] 42yo male with fever following liver transplant
This case report describes a 42-year-old male from Arizona with a complex course characterised by fever following an orthotopic liver transplant. A general approach to fever in the post-transplant patient is discussed, along with specific consi...
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Episode 123
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26:59
Ep122: Funding pan-cancer therapies
In the previous episode we heard how some rationally-designed therapies work on almost any cancer with the right molecular signature. Tumour-agnostic medications could be godsend for patients with rare cancers which have classically been overlo...
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Episode 122
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50:05
Ep121: Precision oncology explained
The genomic understanding of cancer has transformed a tissue-based classification model that had been dominant for 150 years or more. The last three decades have seen highly targeted therapies developed at blistering pace, and unprecedented imp...
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Episode 121
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46:39
[Case Report] 35yo male with proximal weakness and skin changes
This case report describes a 35-year-old Caucasian male presenting with 5 weeks of progressive weakness in the proximal limbs and trunk and associated changes to the skin. The man was previously well and not taking any regular medications. Ther...
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Episode 120
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30:16
[Case Report] 47yo with rapidly progressive respiratory failure requiring ECMO
In 2019 a man was referred to Royal Adelaide Hospital with worsening breathlessness and a productive cough. He was a 47 year old electrician with a history of tobacco smoking who’d been well before the onset of symptoms. Over a couple of admiss...
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Episode 119
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34:01
[Journal Club] Thrombolysis up to 24hr after ischaemic stroke
Thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke has undergone great advances in the last decade, but the expertise and technology is restricted to tertiary hospitals. Outside of large metropolitan centres, thrombolytic treatment can buy a patient t...
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Episode 118
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43:02
[Case Report] 48yo with diarrhoea and lymphadenopathy
This podcast follows the case of a 48-year-old male with a 3-month history of diarrhoea and associated lymphadenopathy. A complex constellation of symptoms accompanies this presenting complaint, along with a key radiological finding that enable...
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Episode 117
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24:48
[Guest Lecture] Fighting hepatitis C in prisons and the community
This recording comes from the launch of the 2nd Monitoring and Evaluation Report on Hepatitis C Elimination in NSW. The work was conducted through the Kirby Institute under the guidance of infectious diseases specialist, Professor Greg Dore. As...
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Episode 116
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33:37
Ep115: One day as a nuclear medicine registrar
Dr Karan Singh loves his job as a registrar in nuclear medicine but he thinks there isn’t enough exposure to the specialty during medical school and basic training. In this podcast we spend a day in his department at Prince of Wales Hospital Sy...
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Episode 115
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43:51
[IMJ On-Air] Understanding readmissions better
The LACE index is a prognostic algorithm for predicting the likelihood that a newly discharged patient will come back into hospital within 30 days because of complications. Today’s IMJ paper describes a validation of the LACE index in a regiona...
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Episode 114
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30:51
[Case Report] 58yo with acute myeloid leukaemia and diplopia
This podcast follows the case of a 58 year old man who presented to the haematology department at Flinders Medical Centre with intravascular coagulation and leukocytosis. He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia and treated on standard cyt...
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Episode 113
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24:49
Ep112: The resilient workplace
The RACP Congress in May this year was opened by a fascinating lecture on mental health in the medical workforce, which has been trimmed down for audio. Professor Neil Greenberg is an occupational psychiatrist with more than 23 years in the UK ...
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Episode 112
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43:04
[CPD On Demand] Advance Your CPD Through Effective Supervision
From 2024, supervising has been recognised as a Category 2 CPD activity. This short and insightful episode focuses on recent updates to the 2024 MyCPD Framework, highlighting the recognition of supervisory activities as a critical element of Ca...
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Episode 111
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15:46
[Case Report] 32yo with abdominal pain two years after pancreas-kidney transplant
This case report has been developed by Trainees, to assist their peers with preparation of long-case presentations. It is not a fully-vetted Education resource but a “passion project” from editors of the Pomegranate Health podcasts. <...
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Episode 110
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