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Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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2021 VOYAGER AWARDS WINNER - BEST SERIAL PODCAST. What’s it like to work in a system that doesn’t do right by your own people? Trainee doctor Emma Espiner is about to find out. Made Possible...

Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student Podcast Guide

Listen to Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student, a Health podcast by RNZ. Stream 8 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

8 episodes are available for this podcast.

Episodes

8 episodes

Pandemic

Emma spends lockdown at Auckland hospital, and sees how government action on COVID-19 underlines the lack of urgency when it comes to Māori...

00:24:29Jul 28, 2020

Te Ahi Kaa

Emma travels home to Tukorehe for her tā moko, and gets some advice from Dr Glenn Colquhoun. In this episode of Getting Better we drove to L...

00:26:18Jul 28, 2020

What Does a Surgeon Look Like?

Why do so few indigenous doctors end up becoming surgeons? And why does it matter? For this episode, we travelled to the Leaders in Indigeno...

00:25:38Jul 28, 2020

Tairāwhiti

Emma's in Tairāwhiti, where "by Māori for Māori" has the potential to be more than just a slogan in healthcare. For this episode of Getting...

00:26:12Jul 28, 2020

Southside

Dr Vaaiga Autagavaia takes Emma to meet the Rugby League team he coaches in Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, a training programme that goes fa...

00:26:10Jul 24, 2020

Tuparehuia

For her GP placement, Emma asked to go to Northland. She's on the road with rural doctor Kyle Eggleton, whose weekly clinic is in the remote...

00:23:46Jul 24, 2020

A Better Chance of Dying

Emma Espiner goes to Porirua to meet the Wallace whānau and hear about a night in ED that changed their lives. Clarification: Kōkiri Marae i...

00:29:48Jul 24, 2020