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Pomegranate Health

Welcome to Pomegranate Health — a podcast about the culture of medicine.

Get insights from clinicians, researchers, and advocates as they tackle important questions — like how to make difficult clinical and ethical decisions without being influenced by bias, how to communicate better with patients and colleagues, and how to provide healthcare that’s both efficient and fair.

If you're a CPD participant, time spent listening counts towards your CPD hours. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the Case Report series can help you prepare for your long case clinical exams.

This is also where you'll find IMJ On-Air, featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal sharing their latest research. Plus, the Journal Club episodes give RACP researchers a chance to talk through their work published in other academic journals.

We’d love to hear your thoughts — feel free to leave a comment on each episode or send feedback and ideas to podcast@racp.edu.au.

Latest episodes

[Journal Club] Baricitinib immune therapy for new onset type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes has a very high treatment burden but may now be possible to delay the progression of disease. Daily therapy with the immune modulator baricitinib has been shown to preserve insulin production in newly diagnosed adults and children.

Ep106: The whiskey fix and the apple of Granada

Strange tales from archives of medical history.

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.

[IMJ On-Air] HepatoCare: a model for palliative and supportive care in advanced cirrhosis

Patients diagnosed with advanced cirrhosis have poor prognosis and quality of life but only a fraction are referred to palliative care services. Hepatocare is a model of care designed to reduce this gap.

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.

Ep101: Setting the standard for workforce wellbeing

Between 50 and 70 percent of doctors meet the criteria for burnout. The response to this requires a nation-wide wellbeing strategy starting with some very simple administrative changes.

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.

[IMJ On-Air] A tiger in the mallee: Victoria’s JEV cluster

In early 2022 Victorian physicians saw a cluster of patients presenting with fevers, confusion and Parkinsonian symptoms. These would be identified as the first cases of Japanese encephalitis virus acquired on Australia’s mainland in 24 years.

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