Care Under Fire Podcast

11/06/2024

Episode #24 Sister Cheryl O’Brien RAAF Vietnam Veteran

On today’s episode of Care Under Fire Podcast, I catch up with Sister Cheryl O’Brien. Cheryl served as a RAAF registered nurse and midwife during the Vietnam war. Based out of Malaysia, Cheryl nursed servicemen and their families on Penang Island and worked in the Butterworth Military Hospital. She also flew medivac missions out of Vung Tau to Butterworth and to Australia. Cheryl reflects on the diversity of her military nursing career from delivering babies to treating snake bites to evacuating ventilated casualties from Vietnam as well as the incredible advances in nursing care seen over her 47 years of nursing.

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11/06/2024

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10/05/2024

Episode #23 now live - Today on Care Under Fire I chat with Tom, former military psychologist and intelligence officer who served in the Australian Army for 22 years. Tom specialised in critical incident mental health support and deployed to East Timor and Afghanistan six times from 2009-2012. His story, marked with personal tragedy demonstrates that no one is immune to post-traumatic stress and highlights the importance of recognising when to seek help.

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24/04/2024

22/03/2024

Episode #22 Bahaa Alasady, Iraqi Interpreter & The War Against ISIS

Today on Care Under Fire Podcast I catch up with Bahaa Alasady. Bahaa was born in Iraq and worked as a coalition interpreter during the ISIS uprising. His story highlights the vital role of the interpreter in medical, training and partner force missions and the violent realities of living in Baghdad. Bahaa has since migrated to Australia and is studying nursing.

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19/03/2024

Care Under Fire Podcast New Episode now live https://media.rss.com/careunderfirepodcast/feed.xml - Roneel Chandra Nurse Practitioner. Chands has had an extensive military nursing career spanning 22 years and has served with the Army, Special Operations and the Navy. He shares some wisdom for new military nurses as he recounts his experiences from being in a Blackhawk crash landing on an AME mission in Afghanistan to providing humanitarian aid post a cyclone during Covid in Fiji and the Mallacoota bushfire rescue.

27/02/2024

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30/01/2024

Currently working on the 2024 line up of clinician guests sharing their story on Care Under Fire Podcast, if you are a health professional with a story to tell or would like some more info, please get in touch: [email protected]

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23/12/2023

Always good to have an outlet. Merry Christmas from Care Under Fire Podcast.

25/11/2023

Episode #20 Care Under Fire Podcast - I chat with Jack Dear, current ACT paramedic who recently deployed with the NGO, Frontline Medics to assist with the evacuation and treatment of civilian casualties in Ukraine. Jack discusses his early career as an Army Bushmaster crew commander and how his deployment to Afghanistan left him feeling underprepared in managing trauma casualties. Jack later sought further education in South Africa as a remote area medical technician and returned to Afghanistan as a contract security officer at the Australian Embassy in Kabul before committing to paramedicine.

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12/11/2023

12/11/2023

Episode #19 Care Under Fire Podcast

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Howard Robby CSM, RAAF retrieval Veteran, Anaesthetist, and Intensivist

Today I chat with Doctor Howard Robby, CSM. Howard is a specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive care and after gaining aeromedical retrieval skill in Australia joined the RAAF reserve as part of the Military Critical Care Air Transport Service (MCAT). Howard recounts some of the critically ill patients he retrieved over the subsequent 15 years he worked on call for MCAT, from military IED and traumatic injuries out of the Middle East to civilian casualties from the White Island Volcano eruption in NZ. We also discuss the innovation in clinical equipment and training that has led to better patient outcomes in war and austere environments.

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10/11/2023

11-11-23 at 1100hrs pause to remember - Lest we forget

03/11/2023

Episode #18 Care Under Fire Podcast Jody Tieche Veteran Voodoo Medic
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Today I catch up with Jody Tieche, former special forces medic,
Timor and Afghanistan veteran and now remote area paramedic. Jody recounts his experiences in the early part of the Australian Afghanistan campaign that saw a change in tactics due to the rise of improvised explosive devices and his experience under fire treating Chad Elliot who was shot in the femur by a 7.62mm round. Jody humbly discusses what the core role of the SF medic is; providing unconventional medicine during unconventional warfare to embody the SF medic slogan ‘we do the voodoo so you can do you’.

25/10/2023

Episode #17 Care Under Fire Podcast - Mark Mathieson, Veteran and former Army Psychologist

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Today I chat with Mark Mathieson, former military psychologist and veteran of East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. Mark shares some fascinating insights as we discuss the role of an Army Special Forces psychologist, to some of the moral challenges of organisation psychology in the military to life post the military and his work as a production psychologist for reality TV.

If you’ve ever wondered what the psych is thinking or even what their job involves this episode is for you.

10/10/2023

Episode #16 Care Under Fire Podcast Ben Flynn - Army Reserve Medic and Police Officer

On today’s episode of Care Under Fire I chat all things reserve medic with Ben Flynn. We discuss how through a few short courses the Army transforms someone with no medical background into a medic who can provide advanced first aid and trauma care in remote environments. Ben recalls his experiences deployed in the Solomon Islands and picking up asylum seekers whilst on boarder protection operations with the Australian Navy. We chat about some of the limitations to mental health first aid and trauma care scope of practice in both the military and police force and the moral injury that can result in mental health battles.

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29/09/2023

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Episode #15 Andy Brayshaw combat medic was onboard the Sir Galahad when it was hit by an air strike. Listen on Spotify, RSS or Apple Podcasts

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The Argentine attack at Bluff Cove, 8th June 1982.

29/09/2023

Looking for something to listen to on your long weekend road trip? Episode #15 Care Under Fire Podcast Andy Brayshaw combat medic, landing soon

Today I chat with Andy Brayshaw, former combat medic with 43 years’ experience in both the British and Australian Army serving in the Falklands war, Iraq, Croatia and Bosnia. Andy recounts being wounded and treating combat casualties when his troop land ship, the Sir Galahad was hit by an Argentine air strike in the Falklands through to the CBRN threat in the First Gulf War to his work with the UN, we also chat about the evolution of medic practice across his four decades of service.

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28/09/2023

24/09/2023

Care Under Fire Podcast episode #14 - Jess “Doc” Rychlewski, Vietnam veteran & medic

In today’s episode of Care Under Fire it’s a real privilege to chat with Jess Rychlewski, former Army medic and Vietnam Veteran. Jess recounts his experiences as a patrol medic during a 13 month deployment with Charlie Company 2RAR in Vietnam in 1970. Post Vietnam, Jess continued to serve for 20 years full time and 10 years after that as a reserve medic.

24/09/2023

Care Under Fire Podcast Episode #13 now live - David Leaf

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Today I chat which David Leaf, rural generalist, and Timor Veteran. David survived a 2004 helicopter crash in a mountainous region of East Timor, where his team was on-route to retrieve a pregnant woman in obstructed labour. We chat about the role rural generalists play in military medicine, PTSD and David’s work in the veteran health space, particularly improving training for GPs in veteran and first responder health care.

16/09/2023

Listen to Care Under Fire on Spotify. Hosted by an Australian Army Veteran, Care Under Fire Podcast tells the stories of inspiring individuals who have provided good medicine in bad places. In this series, Em speaks with health professionals who have served in war, humanitarian, disaster relief and....

16/09/2023

Episode 12 Care Under Fire Podcast - Prue Wheelwright Nurse & Midwife on Humanitarian Aid in Ethiopia and Tajikistan

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16/09/2023

Today on Care Under Fire Podcast I chat with Prue Wheelwright. Bought up on a rural property in NSW, Prue is a registered nurse and midwife with experience in regional and remote Australia; and internationally in Saudi Arabia and with Médecins sans Frontieres (MSF) in Tajikistan and Ethiopia. Prue now works as a flight nurse with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, based out of Alice Springs and is the author of “The Flying Nurse: Saving lives and swaddling babies from outback Australia to Africa and beyond”. We chat about the realities of humanitarian aid work and the benefits of getting out of your comfort zone and out of the hospital.

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07/09/2023

Care Under Fire Podcast featured in the ATMA delicate handbook. Great first day.

07/09/2023

Day one ATMA conference 2023 and what an impressive line up.

Master of Ceremonies, LTCOL Stuart Baldwinson , CSC has formally opened the Australian Tactical Medicine Conference 2023 to a full auditorium of over 400 delegates to commence an incredible two days of networking and engagement.

Thanks for joining us on this journey.

28/08/2023

Episode #11 - Care Under Fire Podcast Brad Watts DSM, former Special Forces Medic.

Today on Care Under Fire I chat with Brad Watts, DSM who outlines his experiences as a Special Forces Medic in Afghanistan in 2006. Brad outlines his time as an AME medic from managing obstetric emergencies to retrieving a Danish soldier with a GSW to the head whilst under fire, actions that would later see him awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Brad has also had operational experience in East Timor and in boarder protection and credits the Army with helping him develop resilience that would later assist him in corporate roles, mountaineering and supporting his daughter through brain cancer.

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23/08/2023

Episode #10 Care Under Fire Podcast Now Live - Dianne Hutchinson ICU Nurse, Veteran and Firefighter on Resilience.

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Today on Care Under Fire I catch up with Dianne Hutchinson. Di has had a long career as an Intensive Care Nurse and has worked in a range of austere environments including; Afghanistan, Iraq and immigration detention on Christmas Island. Di has also made an extensive contribution as a volunteer firefighter, with Camp Quality and Operation Open Heart. Through a lens of compassion, Di speaks about her involvement supporting the ADF Arts for Recovery, Resilience, Teamwork and Skills (ARRTS) program and her work providing nursing care in challenging environments with both Defence and as a contractor.

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13/08/2023

Ep #9 Care Under Fire Podcast Terry Ledgard SAS Medic & Mountaineer

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