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Pomegranate Health

Welcome to Pomegranate Health, a podcast about the culture of medicine. You’ll hear clinicians, academics and advocates grapple with some big questions. How to make difficult clinical and ethical decisions free from cognitive bias. How to improve communication with patients and peers. How to deliver healthcare with efficiency and equity.

Fellows of the RACP can log time spent listening towards their CPD. Basic Physician Trainees will find the Case Report series a useful model for presentation of long-cases at their clinical examinations.

This is also the home of IMJ On-Air, where authors from the College's Internal Medicine Journal present their work. Meanwhile, the Journal Club episodes invite RACP researchers published in other academic journals to showcase their work.

Please add to the discussion in the comments section for each episode and send any feedback or ideas to podcast@racp.edu.au

Latest episodes

Ep27: Severe Asthma

For years the management model for asthma has been empirical. The more serious the disease, the more the dose of controller therapy is increased. But this doesn’t work for everyone and a more rational approach involves identifying one of three distinct pathological pathways. This episode describes emerging diagnostic tools therapies such as monoclonal antibodies that are targeted to specific disease phenotypes.

Ep26: Dealing with Uncertainty – Part 2

Uncertainty is a frightening but unavoidable fact in every speciality. In the second of a two-part series, we look at the stigma and disorientation experienced by patients with medically unexplained syndromes, and some behavioural interventions for functional disorders. Since treatment outcomes are never guaranteed, we also discuss how a patient’s expectations must be managed from the beginning of a consultation, and the importance of long-term coping strategies.

Ep25: Dealing with Uncertainty – Part 1

Uncertainty is a frightening but unavoidable fact in every speciality. In the first of a two-part series, we examine the culture within the profession and general public that expects nothing less that perfection in medicine. We also ask whether hospital training might shelter younger doctors from the experience of complex, chronic conditions, and how much the simplicity of protocol can be relied upon.

Ep24: Social Medicine – Themes from Congress 2017

At May’s RACP Congress, there was great interest in sessions examining the moral obligations physicians have to society. On this episode of Pomegranate, three speakers from these panels reflect on some of the themes raised at the event.

Ep23: Managing Autism in the ED

People with autism spectrum disorder can become very agitated when experiencing pain, as they often have trouble making sense of their own emotional and physical states. Many also have difficulty communicating, and are thus difficult to assess in the emergency department. This episode covers techniques to calm distressed patients with autism and make medical assessments.

Ep22: Transitions to Retirement

It’s common to avoid thinking about retirement, and the idea can sometimes come as a shock—professionally, personally, or financially. This month, we speak with physicians both in and out of retirement, as well as two psychiatrists whose research focuses on medical professionals’ identity.

Ep21: Genomics for the Generalist – Part 2

This is a two-part series looking at how modern genomics is changing clinical practice. In our second episode, we consider genetic risk, the ethics of consenting patients, and gene-targeted treatments in cancer research.

Ep20: Genomics for the Generalist – Part 1

This is a two-part series looking at how modern genomics is changing clinical practice. In our first episode, we look at the differences in gene-testing technologies and their practical utility in clinical practice.

Ep19: Health, Disease and Death in the Early Colony

A history of health in the early Sydney colony. From disease epidemics and panic, to crude remedies and overcrowded cemeteries.

[Guest Lecture] Integrating Health and Social Care

Sir Harry Burns and Dr Ruth Hussey OBE are public health physicians involved in “whole-of-system change” in Britain’s health and social care. They were invited to Australia in 2016 to advise NSW Health on such delivery models; this episode of Pomegranate features a special lecture presented at the RACP during their trip.

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