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What is life as a doctor like after climbing Everest? |Part 2| Third Spacing Podcast
On 26 May 2012, Dr Kumaran Rasappan became the first Singaporean physician to summit Mount Everest. What comes next? In this episode, we continue exploring Dr Kumaran’s insights into medical care in Singapore and abroad, how his love for mountaineering brought him to provide care for the communities in Nepal, and the recent launch of his book No Mountain Too High.
00:00 Finding Balance in Life
03:11 Perils of Mountaineering
06:36 Empathizing with Patients
08:30 Volunteering Overseas
13:21 Setting up Project Aasha
19:31 No Mountain Too High
24:13 What’s next?
What is Third Spacing?
By healthcare students/workers, across disciplines and schools, we speak to clinicians, academics, and members of civil society who expand what we think about care delivery.
Why we create podcasts?
Scaling honest conversations for change, centring human experiences, starting with healthcare.
Email us at thirdspacingpodcast@gmail.com
Follow our Instagram @thirdspacing
00:00 Finding Balance in Life
03:11 Perils of Mountaineering
06:36 Empathizing with Patients
08:30 Volunteering Overseas
13:21 Setting up Project Aasha
19:31 No Mountain Too High
24:13 What’s next?
What is Third Spacing?
By healthcare students/workers, across disciplines and schools, we speak to clinicians, academics, and members of civil society who expand what we think about care delivery.
Why we create podcasts?
Scaling honest conversations for change, centring human experiences, starting with healthcare.
Email us at thirdspacingpodcast@gmail.com
Follow our Instagram @thirdspacing
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What is life as a doctor like after climbing Everest? |Part 1| Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 3314 วันที่ผ่านมา
On 26 May 2012, Dr Kumaran Rasappan became the first Singaporean physician to summit Mount Everest. The culmination of years of planning, preparation, uncertainty brought him to the top of the world - physically and metaphorically. What comes next? In this episode, we catch up with Dr Kumaran on how life at normal altitude has been like after reaching the highest peak in the world. He shares wi...
Why are many of our nurses from the Philippines? |Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 2132 หลายเดือนก่อน
The Philippines is one of the world’s largest exporters of migrant labour, with a significant number of its citizens employed in healthcare as nurses. Asst Professor Yasmin Ortiga from the Singapore Management University is a sociologist who aims to answer why and what impact this has. Taking a historical view, Asst Professor Ortiga traces this phenomenon back to the Philippine's US colonial pa...
How to Slay in Medicine? | Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 1125 หลายเดือนก่อน
Victoria Wondersnatch is a drag queen who is also a clinician-scientist. In this episode, we discuss her journey in combining these two paths. In our episode, Wondersnatch shared how their journey started with watching TH-cam make-up tutorials, performing in modest gatherings, and now starring in and writing regularly sold out larger-than-life spectacles with Drag Qabaret. Now, Wondersnatch als...
How can we build spaces for gender-affirming care? |Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 768 หลายเดือนก่อน
Dr. Tsoi Wing Foo is a renowned psychiatrist with over 60 years of experience in the field. He dedicated his career to the care of transgender people and is one of the pioneers in transgender psychiatry in Singapore. Dr. Tsoi also authored the book "Cries from Within," which explores the challenges faced by transgender people in Singapore and the available treatment options. In this episode, Dr...
Why do Junior Doctors feel burnt out? |Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 52710 หลายเดือนก่อน
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the interview are his own and do not reflect the views of his employer Dr Gerald Sng shares his perspective as a researcher of junior doctor burnout. In our first ever video episode, Dr Sng discusses the factors contributing to high rates of burnout among junior doctors, and explores what can be done to address it. He draws insight from his research into resid...
How do we advance women in medicine and academia? |Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 1710 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this episode we talk to Associate Professor Sophia Archuleta, the Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases in NUH and President of the NUHS Women in Science and Healthcare (WISH) initiative. She shares her experience of being a woman in healthcare, the need for advocacy to come from both women and women, for more female representation in healthcare leadership, as well as how we can start ...
What lessons can Singapore learn from the US healthcare system? | Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 2211 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this episode, Dr. Lakshmi compares her clinical training in Singapore to the very diverse backgrounds of her colleagues in the US. She argues that there are universal ideas such as implicit bias training and provision of culturally competent care that are also very much applicable in the Singapore context and therefore should also be explored. Finally, Dr. Lakshmi contends that because of th...
What do you do when your priorities change? | Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 2611 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this episode, we speak to Faith Nadine, a PGY2 who now practices as a locum GP and blogs at Chasing Faith and Love. We honestly talk about her reasons for walking down this unconventional pathway, mental health as a junior doctor, and her thoughts on her future. What is Third Spacing? By healthcare students/workers, across disciplines and schools, we speak to clinicians, academics, and membe...
What does inclusion look like in Singapore? | Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 1511 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this episode, we interview Dr Victor Zhuang, a Fung Global Fellow at the Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, an International Postdoctoral Scholar at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU, as well as Principal Consultant with SG Enable. We talk about what the disability research field is like in Singapore, technology and disability, a...
How do we deal with dying patients? | Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 12ปีที่แล้ว
In this two-part episode, we commemorate the life of Prof. Cynthia Goh who passed away due to pancreatic cancer on Feb 13th 2022. In the previous part, Prof. Cynthia talked about what palliative care entails, and shared about her journey of establishing hospice care in Singapore. In this part, Prof. Cynthia discusses some of the most important issues in palliative care, including patient dignit...
What is Palliative Care? | Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 15ปีที่แล้ว
In this two-part episode, we commemorate the life of Prof. Cynthia Goh who passed away due to pancreatic cancer on Feb 13th 2022. Prof. Cynthia was an emeritus consultant in the Division of Supportive & Palliative Care in NCCS. She was one of the pioneers of hospice care in Singapore and was the founding president of HCA Hospice Care. She also chaired the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Ne...
Why aren't we more afraid of climate change? |Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 14ปีที่แล้ว
In this episode, we interview Dr Denise Dillon, Associate Professor in Psychology at James Cook University, in a special collaboration with The Weird and Wild. Prof Dillon sheds light on eco-anxiety and how it could affect us in the near future. She also explains to us why we are resistant to act on climate change while discussing the importance of our environment in healing. What is Third Spac...
Why doctors need to be more than just doctors? |Third Spacing Podcast
มุมมอง 68ปีที่แล้ว
Prof Chong Yap Seng, Dean of NUS Medicine, talks about the waves that are changing medicine and how medical students can preserve our core sense of humanity in clinical practice and research by tapping on the arts and social sciences. He also shares about the newly launched MBBS Intercalated Year Programme, which aims to prepare students for such disruptions and to navigate increasingly complex...