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

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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 28 seconds

Episode 7: Pandemic - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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, 12:07 am
26 minutes 17 seconds

Episode 6: Te Ahi Kaa - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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

28 July 2020, 12:06 am
25 minutes 37 seconds

Episode 5: What does a Surgeon Look Like? - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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

28 July 2020, 12:05 am
26 minutes 11 seconds

Episode 4: Tairāwhiti - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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

28 July 2020, 12:04 am
26 minutes 9 seconds

Episode 3: Southside - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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, 12:03 am
23 minutes 45 seconds

Episode 2: Tuparehuia - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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, 12:02 am
29 minutes 47 seconds

Episode 1: A Better Chance of Dying - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

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

24 July 2020, 12:01 am
1 minute 41 seconds

Trailer: 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. Available Now @ RNZ.CO.NZ

24 July 2020, 12:00 am
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