Pomegranate Health

the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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Pomegranate Health

Pomegranate Health is an award-winning podcast about the culture of medicine, from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. We ask how doctors make difficult clinical and ethical decisions, how doctor-patient communication can be improved, and how healthcare delivery can be made more equitable. This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], a podcast to accompany the RACP's Internal Medicine Journal.  Interviews with authors are conducted by specialist section editors. Find out more at the website www.racp.edu.au/podcast and get in touch via the address podcast@racp.edu.au

  1. [Case Report] 74yo with dyspnoea after AF ablation

    14 APR

    [Case Report] 74yo with dyspnoea after AF ablation

    In this episode we hear about an emergency presentation to a South Australian hospital, of a 74-year-old male with shortness of breath. The curve ball is that he had undergone ablation for drug-refractory atrial fibrillation less than two weeks prior. This discussion gives an overview of developing technologies for AF treatment and developing knowledge about the possible complications. We also have some multiple choice questions to test your understanding. Guest Dr Shaun Evans, FRACP (Royal...

    28 min
  2. Ep126: Trying times for Māori medics

    27 MAR

    Ep126: Trying times for Māori medics

    In Aotearoa-New Zealand, the proportion of doctors identifying as Māori has doubled from where it was a decade ago to over 5 percent. But there is still a long way to go before the workforce is representative of the broader population which is 17 percent Māori. The Auckland and Otago Medical Schools have in recent years turbocharged their intake of Māori and Pasifika students but these graduates don’t seem to have trickled through to the RACP in great numbers. Just 3.5 percent of general phys...

    45 min
  3. [Case Report] 52yo with hand clumsiness after Chiari operation

    13 MAR

    [Case Report] 52yo with hand clumsiness after Chiari operation

    This case report comes to you from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a huge teaching hospital that serves the Harvard Medical School. The 52-year-old female presented with clumsiness and paresthesia of the right hand that had persisted for several days. She also had a headache and three weeks prior to presentation had undergone a suboccipital craniotomy for a Chiari I malformation. To complicate things, there was a past medical history of migraines and a family history of a Factor V Lei...

    28 min
  4. Ep124: Pleural medicine comes of age

    27 FEB

    Ep124: Pleural medicine comes of age

    Professor Gary Lee established the first dedicated pleural service in the southern hemisphere in 2009, at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth. He says that pleural disease has finally come to be regarded as an area of subspeciality interest in its own right, not just a complication of other comorbidities. In this podcast he presents a potted history of key developments in the management of pleural effusion in particular. This is diagnosed in about 60,000 people every year in Aust...

    58 min
  5. [Case Report] 42yo male with fever following liver transplant

    11 FEB

    [Case Report] 42yo male with fever following liver transplant

    This case report describes a 42-year-old male from Arizona with a complex course characterised by fever following an orthotopic liver transplant. A general approach to fever in the post-transplant patient is discussed, along with specific considerations regarding travel in post-transplant patients or those on immunosuppressants for other indications. A/Prof Camille Kotton and Dr Simran Gupta from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital take listeners through the ca...

    27 min
  6. Ep122: Funding pan-cancer therapies

    28 JAN

    Ep122: Funding pan-cancer therapies

    In the previous episode we heard how some rationally-designed therapies work on almost any cancer with the right molecular signature. Tumour-agnostic medications could be godsend for patients with rare cancers which have classically been overlooked by drug developers, and those with advanced cancers of unknown origin. 15,000 such patients have undergone comprehensive genome profiling of their tumours through the organisation, Omico. In this podcast, Omico’s founder explains that while the maj...

    50 min
  7. Ep121: Precision oncology explained

    16 JAN

    Ep121: Precision oncology explained

    The genomic understanding of cancer has transformed a tissue-based classification model that had been dominant for 150 years or more. The last three decades have seen highly targeted therapies developed at blistering pace, and unprecedented improvements in patient outcomes. To date, these advances have been focused on more common cancers. The financing model for drug development means that rare cancers get overlooked, given the small pool of potential buyers relative to the costs and ri...

    47 min
  8. [Case Report] 35yo male with proximal weakness and skin changes

    19/12/2024

    [Case Report] 35yo male with proximal weakness and skin changes

    This case report describes a 35-year-old Caucasian male presenting with 5 weeks of progressive weakness in the proximal limbs and trunk and associated changes to the skin. The man was previously well and not taking any regular medications. There are many pathways this undifferentiated patient could go down. Consultant physician, Professor Josephine Thomas demonstrates a systematic way to work through the differential diagnoses as would be expected in a long-case presentation for basic physici...

    30 min
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About

Pomegranate Health is an award-winning podcast about the culture of medicine, from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. We ask how doctors make difficult clinical and ethical decisions, how doctor-patient communication can be improved, and how healthcare delivery can be made more equitable. This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], a podcast to accompany the RACP's Internal Medicine Journal.  Interviews with authors are conducted by specialist section editors. Find out more at the website www.racp.edu.au/podcast and get in touch via the address podcast@racp.edu.au

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  • Creator
    the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2025
  • Episodes
    127
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Pomegranate Health
  • Show Website
    Pomegranate Health

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