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  • 10 | Dr. Kate Mitchell on chronic illness, being a patient & general practice

    Dr. Kate Mitchell is a newly trained part time GP who works in a stunning beach side town North of Wellington. She balances being a professional patient and a doctor – living life with an undiagnosed multi-system autoimmune disease. Her whānau and her people make life possible.

    In this episode, we discuss navigating medicine with a chronic illness, a marked deterioration of her health requiring multiple hospitalisations, being a professional patient, mentorship, and general practice.

    Dr. Kate Mitchell is very happy to be contacted by any RMOs who may be struggling with medical conditions and would like to reach out. Get in touch with Maple @ Doctor NOS to put you in touch Kate. 

    As always, if you have any feedback or queries, feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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    41 min
  • 9 | David Farrier on giving up medical school, medical misinformation & journalism

    David Farrier is a journalist and documentary maker, who has fashioned a career out of stranger stories and unpacking conspiracies. He co-directed and featured in the internationally distributed documentary on competitive endurance tickling called Tickled in 2016, and the Netflix documentary series, Dark Tourist in 2018. He also does a monthly podcast called ‘Armchaired and Dangerous’ with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman on the Armchair Expert, on discussing different conspiracies, and writes a newsletter Webworm. 

    In this episode, we discuss his journey into first year health sciences, giving up medical school and subsequently going into journalism and the current & future challenges for journalism. We also unpack medical misinformation, especially in the era of COVID and vaccinations, and the dangers of social media. 

    David's newsletter Webworm: https://www.webworm.co/
    Linktree to find him on all his social media platforms and all his projects: https://linktr.ee/davidfarrier

    As always, if you have any feedback or queries, feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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    52 min
  • 8 | Dr. Arthur Nahill on poetry, failures of medical education & general medicine

    Dr. Art Nahill is originally from the Boston area and attended Yale University and after three years as a high-school science teacher obtained his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Mount Auburn Hospital and spent the next twelve years practicing and teaching in general medicine in the Boston area before moving to New Zealand with his Kiwi wife and two children in 2005.

    Since changing hemispheres, Art is now working in the General Medicine Department of Middlemore Hospital, is a clinical educator, and writer with an opinion on most things, especially learning and teaching about how we think and all the ways we might innovate and improve our struggling health system. He is also a widely-published, award-winning poet. 

    In this episode, we discuss Art's journey into medicine, working as a clinical director and moral injury, our shared struggles in medical school and failures of medical education, his new diagnostic app with Dr. Nic Szecket, and how poetry has intertwined and become the backbone of his medical journey. As a bonus, Art does a reading at the end of the episode of his poem 'Cognitive Assessment'. 

    You can find Art and purchase his poetry from his website: https://twohemispherespoetry.com/ as well as on Amazon. His latest book 'Waiatarua' donates all profits back to the Waiatarua Reserve!

    His podcast with Dr. Nic Szecket can be found here: https://imreasoning.com/

    As always, if you have any feedback or queries, feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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    1 hr 5 min
  • 7 | Dr. Elspeth Frascatore on mental health, art & emergency medicine

    Dr. Elspeth Frascatore is an Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Medicine Training at Auckland City, Deputy Censor for Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Auckland Branch President for Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (also known as ASMS, the union for our SMOs), mother of a toddler, and artist and photographer. She is the doctor behind the New Zealand open letter and movement 'Doctors Stand Up for Vaccination', which has received over 5000 signatories. 

    In this episode, we discuss her pathway to emergency medicine and advice for aspiring emergency trainees, navigating medicine with mental health conditions, and how art and photography had weaved into her life.

    Her website for art and photography can be found at: www.elspethfrascatore.com
    You can find more information on DRSUV here: https://www.doctors-stand-up-for-vaccination.com/home/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/NZDRSUV

    As always, if you have any feedback or queries, feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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    45 min
  • 6 | Dr. Eileen Merriman on haematology, clinical directorship & authorship

    Dr. Eileen Merriman is clinical director of haematology and lead thrombosis clinician at North Shore Hospital in NZ. She is the past president of the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and NZ, and on various international committees for thrombosis. In her spare time, she has a second career as a published author of both adult and young adult fiction. Her adult book, Moonlight Sonata, was long-listed for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction (part of the Ockham New Zealand book awards) and three of her young adult books were finalised in the NZ Children and Young Adult book awards.

    This episode has trigger warnings as it discusses suicide.
    In this episode, we discuss her journey into haematology and her different leadership positions in medicine, her career as an award-winning author, and her latest book released, 'Double Helix'. We also unpack one of her medical novels, 'Silence of Snow', where an anaesthetic fellow overdoses. 

    Eileen’s books can be found on https://www.penguin.co.nz/authors/eileen-merriman and her website https://eileenmerriman.co.nz/

    Social media: 
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MerrimanEileen

    As always, if you have any feedback or queries, feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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    40 min
  • 5 | Dr. Judy Melinek & T.J. Mitchell on forensic pathology, 9/11 & writing

    Dr. Judy Melinek is an American board-certified forensic pathologist and graduate of Harvard University. She trained at UCLA in medicine and pathology, graduating in 1996. Currently, Dr. Melinek is CEO of PathologyExpert Inc., & is currently based in Wellington, working as a clinical professor at the Otago School of Medicine. She also travels nationally and internationally to lecture on anatomic & forensic pathology and she has been consulted as a forensic expert in many high-profile legal cases.

    T.J. Mitchell, husband of Dr. Melinek, graduated with an English degree from Harvard and worked in the film industry before becoming a full-time stay-at-home dad and screenplay consultant in 2000. T.J. and Judy co-authored the New York Times bestseller Working Stiff and now have two other novels out, called First Cut and Aftershock.

    This episode has trigger warnings:
    In this episode, we discuss Judy's journey into forensic pathology including her move from surgery into pathology, her work as one of thirty medical examiners during the 9/11 attacks, her personal experience with suicide and how it shaped her journey, their move from America, and the writing of best-selling memoir, 'Working Stiff', as well as their latest books 'First Cut', and 'Aftershock'. 

    As mentioned in the episode:
    Their website and books can be found and purchased here: https://drworkingstiff.com/
    They write for a column on Medpage Today found here: https://www.medpagetoday.com/

    Social media: 
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrWorkingStiff
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjudymelinek & https://twitter.com/TJMitchellWS

    As always, if you have any feedback or queries, feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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    57 min
  • 4 | Dr. Deborah Powell on leaving clinical medicine, unions/NZRDA & advocacy

    Dr. Deborah Powell and I discuss her journey from a budding geriatrician into union advocacy, leaving clinical medicine, the importance of union membership, the effectiveness of NZRDA and its milestones, the most common fallacies and challenges for resident medical officers (RMOs), and some of the biggest challenges and opportunities coming up for resident medical officers (RMOs) in the next decade.

    As always, if you have any feedback or queries, please get in touch at [email protected]. Happy listening! 

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    Support the show

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    49 min
  • 3 | Dr. Jamie-Lee Rahiri on racism in medicine, Māori inequities & general surgery

    Dr. Jamie-Lee Rahiri and I discuss general surgical training, navigating racism in medicine, Māori inequities, being a medical māmā, her post-doctoral fellowship, her incredible mahi in Te Piringa Kotuku, and much more! 

    For any feedback and queries, or if you would like to get in touch with Dr. Rahiri, please email me at [email protected]. Happy listening! 

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    47 min
  • 2 | Dr. Nicolas Szecket on clinical education, medical insecurity & general medicine

    In this episode, Dr. Nicolas Szecket and I discuss training in general medicine, the highs and lows, the struggles with knowledge capacity, experience in being a clinical director, the future of medicine and the role of artificial intelligence, and much more.

    Dr. Nicolas Szecket is on the organising committee for the ANZ Improving Diagnosis Committee, which is discussed in this podcast. This event will be held virtually on 18th to 19th November 2021, and details can be found here. He has also previously run a podcast, titled 'IM Reasoning' with Dr. Art Nahill, which can be found here.

    This podcast was made possible by the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association Education Trust. 

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    56 min
  • 1 | Introduction

    This episode is a short introduction on the podcast host, Dr. Maple Goh, and the motivations behind launching this podcast series. 

    This podcast was made possible by the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association Education Trust. 

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    7 min

About Doctor NOS

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This is a non-profit, limited series podcast hosted by Dr. Maple Goh providing career guidance, leadership and role-modelling to resident doctors for medical and non-medical pathways. The main…