Getting Better
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Getting Better
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.
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Pandemic
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.

Te Ahi Kaa
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...

What Does a Surgeon Look Like?
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 M...

Tairāwhiti
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 Bett...

Southside
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 s...

Tuparehuia
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 o...

A Better Chance of Dying
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...

Introducing: Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student
Trainee doctor Emma Espiner introduces her new podcast Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student.
Trainee doctor and award-...