Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student RNZ Te Ao Maori
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- Health & Fitness
2021 VOYAGER AWARDS WINNER - BEST SERIAL PODCAST.
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.
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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.
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Te Ahi Kaa
Emma travels home to Tukorehe for her tā moko, and gets some advice from Dr Glenn Colquhoun.
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What does a Surgeon Look Like?
Why do so few indigenous doctors end up becoming surgeons? And why does it matter?
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Tairāwhiti
Emma's in Tairāwhiti, where "by Māori for Māori" has the potential to be more than just a slogan in healthcare.
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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.
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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.