Doctor NOS
This is a non-profit podcast hosted by Dr. Maple Goh providing career guidance, leadership and role-modelling to resident doctors for medical and non-medical pathways. The main objectives are to increase accessibility to different careers within medicine, and to promote visibility of our marginalised and minority doctors. This podcast was funded by the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) Education Trust. Drops every Friday (NZT).
Episodes
99 episodes
100 | Dr. Ralston D'Souza on autism, carer burnout & rural hospital medicine
Dr. Ralston D’Souza graduated from the University of Auckland and is currently dual training in rural hospital medicine and general practice. He's passionate about being a voice to the voiceless having grown up with his autistic brother and cur...
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99 | Dr. Hinemoa Elder on non-profit mahi and Māori child & adolescent psychiatry
Dr. Hinemoa Elder (Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri and
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55:19
98 | Dr. Elizabeth Roberts on adventure sports, training & anatomical pathology
Dr. Elizabeth Roberts is a Nelson-based anatomical pathologist who has worked both for Te Whatu Ora and MedLab South. She graduated from Otago University and pursued pathology training with Auckland, Oregon Health Science University, and Harvar...
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97 | Dr. Carolyn Clark on solo medical parenting, sperm donation & nephrology
Dr. Carolyn Clark is a nephrologist, lecturer, researcher, public health student and life coach. She qualified as a doctor in 2000 and has spent the last 22 years in public hospitals across Australia and New Zealand. She believes that sometimes...
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96 | Dr. Patrick Emanuel on trans-continental careers, American residency & dermatopathology
Dr. Patrick Emanuel is a dermatopathologist based in Lima, Peru. He also consults for IGENZ molecular laboratory, Pathlab Bay of Plenty, and the Skin Institute (all based in New Zealand). He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University ...
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95 | Dr. Juliet Rumball-Smith on Wāhine Connect, Harkness fellowship & public health
Dr. Juliet Rumball-Smith is a public health physician and epidemiologist. Due to a combination of earthquakes, training and jobs, she has lived & worked in a load of different places, including Montreal, Toronto, the winterless north of New...
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94 | Dr. Kasey Tawhara on cultural safety, He Hono Wāhine & OBGYN
Dr. Kasey Tawhara (Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Te Arawa, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Porou) is an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Rotorua Hospital, who is passionate about cultural safety and Māori health equity. She is a member of Te Ohu Rata o Aotea...
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93 | Dr. Kyle Eggleton on PRIME, academia & rural general practice
Dr. Kyle Eggleton is a rural general practitioner with extensive experience in emergency medicine and an interest in youth health, occupational medicine and forensic medicine. Born and raised in Waimā, he has moved around many rural areas of Ne...
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92 | Associate Professor Louise Barbier on feminism, HPB & liver transplant surgery
Associate Professor Louise Barbier is a hepatopancreatobiliary and liver transplant surgeon based in Auckland. She studied medicine in Paris, France and trained in surgery in both Marseille and Paris. She has a PhD in Immunology, and on top of ...
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91 | Dr. Amy Walpole on solidarity, friendships & childless by circumstance
TW: fertility/infertilityDr. Amy Walpole graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine, and completed her GP vocational training in 2007. She emigrated from Wales to Northland in 2018, working for a Māori health provider. S...
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90 | Dr. Monique Mackenzie on shifting specialties, whānau & dermatology
Dr. Monique Mackenzie (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) studied medicine at The University of Otago in New Zealand and graduated in 2006. She has trained extensively throughout New Zealand and joined a Tauranga private practice after recently completing...
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88 | Professor Stephen Robertson on 'Lifting of the mākutu' & paediatric clinical genetics
Professor Stephen Robertson is the Curekids Professor of Paediatric Genetics. He was educated at the University of Otago graduating in Medicine in 1990. He specialized in Paediatrics and Clinical Genetics after training in Auckland and Melbourn...
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54:59
87 | Dr. Kate Bartlett on part-time mahi and perinatal & paediatric pathology
Dr. Kate Bartlett is a perinatal pathologist currently based in Auckland. Having studied in Otago Medical School, she began her house surgeon years in New Plymouth before then working in Auckland. She completed her perinatal and paediatric path...
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37:15
86 | Dr. Anna Luo & Dr. Briana Wu on locuming in Australia
Dr. Anna Luo is is a PGY8 training dermatology registrar, beginning her locum journey after her exams in 2020. Her work has spanned across the entirety of Australia - Victoria, Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales an...
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85 | Dr. Ben O'Keeffe on professional refereeing, oDocs & ophthalmology
Dr. Ben O’Keeffe (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua) is a professional rugby union referee and ophthalmology registrar. Originally from Blenheim, he attended Malborough Boys’ before headed to the University of Otago to complete his Bachelor of Medicine and...
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43:47
84 | Professor Marie Bismark on health law, public health & psychiatry
Professor Marie Bismark is a medical practitioner, health law academic, company director, and mother- of-three. She heads the Law and Public Health Unit at the University of Melbourne where her research explores the intersection between health ...
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83 | Associate Professor Sonya Burgess on gender equity, allyship & interventional cardiology
Associate Professor Sonya Burgess is an interventional cardiologist based in Sydney, Australia, having graduated from Otago Medical School with distinction, before finishing her fellowship with RACP. She completed her interventional fellowship ...
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49:13
82 | Dr. Dermot Coffey on student health, climate change & Ora Taiao
Dr. Dermot Coffey is originally from Kerry, graduating from medical school in Ireland before migrating to Aotearoa 20 years ago. He is a GP/general practitioner working in student health at the University of Canterbury. Dermot has had an intere...
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81 | Professor David McBride on occupational & environmental medicine
Professor David McBride was a registrar in ENT and a trainee GP before becoming a trainee occupational physician with British Coal in Stoke-on-Trent. His training course then led to a job offer as Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingh...
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43:31
80 | Dr. Sarah Nielson on leaving clinical medicine, pharmaceuticals & medical management
Dr. Sarah Nielson is a medical manager for a pharmaceutical company. A former junior doctor, she ventured to “the dark side” almost two years ago. She is passionate about mental health for doctors and a step-mother of one, and mother to two fel...
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41:54
79 | Dr. Ruth Mitchell on nuclear weapons, structural violence & neurosurgery
Dr. Ruth Mitchell is a Sydney-based neurosurgeon, currently working in Sydney Children’s Hospitals network. She has a keen interest in paediatric neurosurgery, brain tumour biology, and injury research. She received the 2019 John Corboy Medal f...
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78 | Dr. Ashley Bloomfield on leadership in a pandemic & the Director General
Dr. Ashley Bloomfield is a public health physician and leader, having been the chief advisor of public health in Ministry of Health New Zealand, before moving to become the Director of Services of Population Health across the Wellington Distric...
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77 | Dr. Imran Lasker on medical 'vocations', social media & musculoskeletal radiology
Dr. Imran Lasker is a consultant radiologist with a specialist interest in musculoskeletal radiology based in the UK. He co-hosts the Two Medics Podcast. He’s a big believer of choosing real life over work life and dabbles in social media from ...
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76 | Dr. Kathryn Hagen on feedback, private practice & anaesthetics
Dr. Kathryn Hagen is a specialist anaesthetist in Auckland City Hospital looking after the adult population. She is the immediate past president of the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists and took on the deputy service clinical director role i...
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75 | Dr. Carl Horsley on human factors, system safety & intensive care
Dr. Carl Horsley is an Intensive Care specialist at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, having previously completed training in Emergency Medicine. He also is the Clinical Lead for System Safety at the Health Quality & Safety Commission, with ...
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