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

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

RNZ

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 by the RNZ/NZ On Air Innovation Fund.

24 minutes 29 seconds

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 health.

28 July 2020, 12:54 am
26 minutes 18 seconds

Te Ahi Kaa

Emma travels home to Tukorehe for her tā moko, and gets some advice from Dr Glenn Colquhoun.

28 July 2020, 12:54 am
25 minutes 38 seconds

What Does a Surgeon Look Like?

Why do so few indigenous doctors end up becoming surgeons? And why does it matter?

28 July 2020, 12:54 am
26 minutes 12 seconds

Tairāwhiti

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

28 July 2020, 12:54 am
26 minutes 10 seconds

Southside

Dr Vaaiga Autagavaia takes Emma to meet the Rugby League team he coaches in Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, a training programme that goes far beyond sport and into the development of life skills.

24 July 2020, 12:44 am
23 minutes 46 seconds

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 outpost of Tuparehuia.

24 July 2020, 12:44 am
29 minutes 48 seconds

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.

24 July 2020, 12:42 am
1 minute 42 seconds

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

Trainee doctor Emma Espiner introduces her new podcast Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student.

20 July 2020, 1:53 am
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