Voodoo Medics

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Voodoo Medics

Voodoo Medics are Australia's best combat healers who combine “unconventional medicine and unconventional warfare”. Journalist Kristin Shorten sat down with six medics, the soldiers they treated in Afghanistan and the families of those killed overseas.

  1. Voodoo Medics: Jonathan Walter

    EPISODE 1

    Voodoo Medics: Jonathan Walter

    Sergeant Jonathan Walter sits down with Kristin Shorten for a chat about his time in Afghanistan and East Timor, receiving a Nursing Se...

    18 min
  2. Voodoo Medics: Jody Tieche

    EPISODE 2

    Voodoo Medics: Jody Tieche

    The role of a combat medic has changed dramatically over the decades with war zone healers tasked with keeping up or becoming a burden....

    17 min
  3. Voodoo Medics: Mark Donaldson

    EPISODE 3

    Voodoo Medics: Mark Donaldson

    Mark Donaldson was the first Australian to be awarded a Victoria Cross in almost four decades, but the former SASR Operator claims he w...

    19 min
  4. Voodoo Medics: Dan Pronk

    EPISODE 4

    Voodoo Medics: Dan Pronk

    Despite 14 "invigorating" years in the military, the deaths of three soldiers on the battlefields of Afghanistan sent Major Dan Pro...

    25 min
  5. Voodoo Medics: Jeremy Holder

    EPISODE 5

    Voodoo Medics: Jeremy Holder

    Jeremy Holder patched up dozens of civilians and soldiers while deployed as a combat medic in Afghanistan and now his battlefield exper...

    22 min
  6. Voodoo Medics: Brad Watts

    EPISODE 6

    Voodoo Medics: Brad Watts

    The differences between Afghanistan and Australia became clear on the operating table for Voodoo Medic Brad Watts who has described the...

    20 min
  7. Voodoo Medics: Bram Connolly

    EPISODE 7

    Voodoo Medics: Bram Connolly

    If you couldn't be saved by a medic in the field in Afghanistan, you weren't going to be saved. It's that simple, according to 20...

    16 min
  8. Voodoo Medics: Chad Elliott

    EPISODE 8

    Voodoo Medics: Chad Elliott

    Chad Elliott was one of the first Australian soldiers to be seriously wounded in Afghanistan. It is a day that the former commando desc...

    10 min
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Voodoo Medics are Australia's best combat healers who combine “unconventional medicine and unconventional warfare”. Journalist Kristin Shorten sat down with six medics, the soldiers they treated in Afghanistan and the families of those killed overseas.

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