Pomegranate Health
A podcast about the culture of medicine.
You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss all aspects of professional practice healthcare. This includes clinical judgement, ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable health systems.
For a sampler of these diverse themes take a listen to Episode 132 and Episode 135.
If RACP is your CPD home, you can log time spent listening to each episode with the "Add educational activity to MyCPD" button at each episode page.
And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series might help you prepare for your long case clinical exams. For more information on other episode formats click About Pomegranate.
Feel free to leave feedback in the comments section for each episode or send it to us via email at podcast@racp.edu.au.
Latest episodes
Ep105: When parents and paediatrics clash
Disputes over the care of paediatric patients have become more frequent and more intense. Mediation skills can help avoid these and minimise moral injury to parents and healthcare staff.
[IMJ On-Air] Is the jury still out on omega-3 supplementation?
For many years now clinical guidelines have explicitly encouraged dietary intake of omega-3s fatty acids for those at high cardiovascular risk. Such recommendations come despite considerable inconsistency in the outcomes from interventions studies over the years.
Ep102: Staying on script with semaglutide
Semaglutide has proven effectiveness for glycaemic control and weight loss as well as predictable benefits for cardiovascular and metabolic health. But the unprecedented demand from the wider population has posed a problem for regulators and prescribers.
Ep100: Conversations with ChatGPT
Natural language processor models could save hours of time spent writing clinical notes and searching through preexisting ones. But there are problematic aspects to networks on the scale of the astounding ChatGPT.
Ep99: When AI goes wrong
Uncertainty around the medicolegal aspects of AI-assisted care is of the main reasons that practitioners report discomfort about the use of this technology. It's a question that hasn’t been well tested in the courts but there is evidence about the types of adverse events that result.