The Impatient Podcast

Recorded on the day of the party to celebrate Nicole’s life: Mumsy, Sean and Liam reminisce about Nicole's life, legacy, and determination as we raise a glass of expensive champagne in her memory. Mumsy discusses Nicole’s sudden decline and the circumstances surrounding the end of her patient battle, as well as touching on they key parts of her patient journey and answering questions posed by you, the people!

Where we would normall...

Health at Work. Workplace injury has long been characterised by slips, trips and falls - hazards that can be signposted and dodged. But what happens when workplace risk is more psychological than physical, and a work injury presents not as a broken bone, but slow burn of tiredness, tears and social detachment? In our season one bonus ep, the impatient podcast goes deep into co-host Sean’s workplace mental health injury and resul...

• Ben's cancer ...

Episode 6 - Caring for Carers

On an otherwise ordinary Wednesday, teacher and comedian Jess Pratt would step into a full time role that she would have never voluntarily chosen: carer. In this powerful and practical episode, Jess shares the reality of being a 'patient by proxy'. The loneliness and loss of identity; the bewilderment and learning; the anxiety and uncertainty; the ambition and advocacy.

We then speak to psychologist an...

This episode contains a discussion of voluntary assisted dying.

Siobhan O'Sullivan is an advocate for the under dog, for ovarian cancer patients, and actually, for each and every one of us. Siobhan is tackling the toughest of life problems: contemplating her almost certain death as a result of terminal cancer. Siobhan has shared some of her very precious time with The Impatient Podcast to discuss the insidious nature of her disease...

What makes a healthcare system great? Are we great when we are delivering against expectations? Shuffling in step with the status quo?

Or are we great when we do the exceptional? The novel, innovative and extremely challenging work that saves, extends and meaningfully improves a human life?

I am alive today, five years beyond my ‘terminal diagnosis’ because of a second opinion. Because someone said ‘no’, someone else said ‘maybe’, ...

Our patient conversation this week is with Molly Clayton, who shares her very recent experience of finding - and eventually, being diagnosed with - breast cancer. Molly joins us from an emergency room to talk missed diagnoses, the power imbalance in medicine, and the simple act of just doing the test!

We then chat to Sarah Powell, CEO of cancer charity Pink Hope, for some real talk on the complexity of advocating for patients with ...

Welcome back to the impatient podcast.

This week we are diving straight back into the pointy issues: who exactly defines success in our health system? Hint - it doesn't appear to be the patient.

We are so fortunate to be joined by Susannah Castelli, a health professional herself, who shares her very real experience of the health system. Her vulnerability and sincerity, as well as her expert knowledge, come together in what is such ...

Episode One: Keeping it human

Welcome to the impatient podcast: a place for patient stories, a challenge to patient care, a change for patient outcomes.

We are kicking our conversation off with one of the more complicated questions in health: why can't we just treat a patient like a human?

Sean and Nicole reflect on their own patient weeks and we all learn a little more about lung function tests (and how not to communicate test res...