42 | Dr. Inia Raumati on hauora Māori, desert ultramarathons & military medicine

Dr. Inia Raumati is an emergency medicine specialist at Auckland City Hospital. Inia also volunteered at Westpac Rescue as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Services doctor, about 4 shifts a month. He was also an Army Reservists Doctor for the NZDF, and took multiple years leave from ED to work full time for the army. Inia first graduated from Otago University with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1997, he then worked for a couple of years and started Medical School in Auckland in 2000. He also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine. Since starting in medicine he has worked in Auckland, Whangarei, Taranaki, Sydney and Port Macquarie.

In this episode, we discuss his journey from physiotherapy to medicine, his medical whakapapa, moving from anaesthetics to ED, his extensive experience in ultramarathons, racism against Māori in medicine, and desert ultras, and his work in army medicine.

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Chapters

• 1:31 Physiotherapy to medical school
• 5:34 Medical whakapapa
• 7:34 Pursuing emergency medicine through anaesthetics
• 12:43 Falling into ultramarathons
• 20:05 Preparing for ultramarathons
• 28:32 Military
• 31:19 Army medicine
• 39:59 Tikanga Maori and racism in medicine