Welcome to Episode Thirteen of our podcast series. This features material from our October 2024 print edition of the Future Leaders Communiqué. Our guest editor is Dr Erica Musgrove, a doctor in training at Alice Springs Hospital, who presents a compelling edition highlighting some of the challenges of providing patient care in rural and remote settings.

This podcast presents a case from rural Australia where a culmination of missed opportunities and systemic issues resulted in a poor patient outcome during an interhospital transfer.

Our expert commentators are Dr Simon Judkins is an Emergency Physician and the Past President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Dr Bridget Honan who is an emergency physician working in Grafton Hospital (Bundjalong Country), and with the Central Australian Retrieval Service in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

Episode Contents

• 04:08 Guest Editorial by Dr Erica Musgrove
• 08:29 Editorial by Professor Joseph Ibrahim
• 11:04 Case: Midnight in the Outback by Dr Erica Musgrove
• 32:42 Expert Commentary #1: Navigating systems and pathways by Dr Simon Judkins
• 39:12 Expert Commentary #2: A junior doctor's guide to retrieval by Bridget Honan
• 44:41 Comments from our peers