Podcast Categories: Science & Medicine

We want to help people understand medicine. Understand how the human body works, and why modern medicine looks the way it does. We also want to laugh. Laugh about happy and sad things. Laugh about the ridiculousness of our healthcare system. Laugh so we don’t go insane. We hope you’ll join us to learn and laugh a little about medicine, current events shaping our medical care, and the overarching healthcare system that affects all of our lives more than we know.

This fortnightly podcast series discusses topics related to delivering health services in the controlled environment of a hospital through to the uncontrolled pre-hospital (ambulance) emergency and disaster arena. It reviews managerial and operational approaches to the different situations and explores how it integrates into the bigger healthcare community. It is not specifically a medical or clinically focused podcast (although clinical care will be discussed in some episodes of course). Whether you are a health care user, health care provider, policy manager or a volunteer first aider, this podcast is designed to challenge and inform. And will be interesting, entertaining … and about 20 minutes in length. You can get more information at http://www.operationalhealth.com

It is hosted by Craig Hooper, a health and emergency service operations specialist. He has more than 25 years domestic and international experience in operational management, emergency planning, health service delivery and service redevelopment.