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Getting Better

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  • Pandemic

    July 28, 2020 · 24 min

    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. Emma spends lockdown at Auckland hospital, and sees how government action on COVID-19…

  • Te Ahi Kaa

    July 28, 2020 · 26 min

    Emma travels home to Tukorehe for her tā moko, and gets some advice from Dr Glenn Colquhoun. In this episode of Getting Better we drove to Levin to pay a visit to poet, doctor and youth worker Glenn Colquhoun.  But we started that day down…

  • What Does a Surgeon Look Like?

    July 28, 2020 · 26 min

    Why do so few indigenous doctors end up becoming surgeons? And why does it matter? For this episode, we travelled to the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education - LIME - Conference in Ōtautahi, to meet trailblazing surgeons, doctors and…

  • Tairāwhiti

    July 28, 2020 · 26 min

    Emma's in Tairāwhiti, where "by Māori for Māori" has the potential to be more than just a slogan in healthcare. For this episode of Getting Better, we've stepped outside of day to day medical school training to go to Tairāwhiti where…

  • Southside

    July 24, 2020 · 26 min

    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. Dr Vaaiga Autagavaia is a Samoan doctor who…

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  • Tuparehuia

    July 24, 2020 · 24 min

    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. Emma went to Northland for her GP placement in order to work alongside Dr…

  • A Better Chance of Dying

    July 24, 2020 · 30 min

    Emma Espiner goes to Porirua to meet the Wallace whānau and hear about a night in ED that changed their lives. Clarification: Kōkiri Marae is in Lower Hutt, not in Porirua as stated in the podcast Trainee doctor and award-winning writer…

  • Introducing: Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    July 20, 2020 · 2 min

    Trainee doctor Emma Espiner introduces her new podcast Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student. Trainee doctor and award-winning writer Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) travels to the front lines of…

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About the show

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.