8 episodes
Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student RNZ Te Ao Maori
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- Health & Fitness
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4.9 • 182 Ratings
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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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
Customer Reviews
Grace Hakaria
What an incredibly insightful, compassionate, inspiring and affirming piece of work.
Thank you Emma for sharing this with us all. I hope this work gets shared far and wide, and has lasting positive impacts.
Thank you
Kia Ora Emma, this is fantastic. I wish ever person in Aotearoa would listen to this and understand the disparities caused by colonisation. Thank you for being a leader of change, it is not easy.
Cheers,
Chloe RN
Wow!
What an amazing podcast!! And what an amazing doctor you’ll be! You have so clearly articulated the problems and the changes we need to see in our healthcare system!