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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 austere environments both domestically and abroad. By telling the stories of these individuals the series hopes to begin to document the evolution of modern medicine, inspire clinicians to push their practice to the next level and increase the general public’s knowledge of what it is we do. careunderfirepodcast@gmail.com
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Today’s episode of Care Under Fire has a different take on prehospital medical care through the eyes of former police officer, Brett Stevens. Brett’s diverse career has seen him work in the tactical response unit, and as a private security operator as well as a military medic in a variety of locations from Kings Cross to the US and SE Asia. Brett’s also authored several books including Rescue Paramedics, Real Cops, A Hard Place, The Rise and Fall of Street Gangs & Real Cops USA. We discuss the merge of tactical policing with paramedicine and some of the most memorable jobs in his career.
Today I chat with Dr Tony Robins, Tony is a GP and medical administrator whose expansive career has included service in the Australian Navy, deployment to Somalia and work everywhere from rural and remote Australia to PNG and Antarctica. Tony reflects on the incredible humanitarian legacy left by 1RAR in Baidoa, the threat on the ground in Mogadishu one year on from the Blackhawk Down incident,the clinical care he provided on AME missions and what it was like coming home.
Today on Care Under Fire I chat with Rich Sherman, Rich is a former US Navy Intelligence Officer, Gulf War Veteran and is the author and photographer of “Never Home – remembering the military heroes who never returned”.
This episode has a slightly different angle as instead of focusing on his own personal story, Rich shares snippets from the biographies of service personnel who paid
the ultimate sacrifice in WWI and WWII. We discuss gratitude, being part of something bigger than yourself and how you can commemorate and thank someone
who you can never meet in person. To find out more about Rich’s work visit: neverhomeheros.com
On today’s episode of Care Under Fire, 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, Vietnam 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.
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.
Today on Care Under Fire 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.
Today on Care Under Fire I catch up with Roneel Chandra, 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 ADF nurses as he recounts his experiences including being in a Blackhawk crash landing on an AME mission in Afghanistan, to providing humanitarian aid in Fiji and the Mallacoota bushfire rescue.
Today 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.
Today I chat with Doctor Howard Roby, 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 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.
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’.
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.Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
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. Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
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.Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
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.Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
Today I chat which David Leaf, rural generalist, and RAAF 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.Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
Today on Care Under Fire 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 Medecins 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. Lifeline 13 11 14, Sands 1300 308 307, https://www.sands.org.au/.
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 experience 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.Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
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.Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
On today’s episode of Care Under Fire I chat with Terry Ledgard as he recalls his experiences as an SAS medic in Afghanistan; from treating trauma casualties, through to humanitarian assistance missions, saving his swag in a firefight and overcoming PTSD. He is now a mountaineer completing five of the seven summits, working in under in water medicine and offshore oil and gas and is the author of “Bad Medicine – A no-holds-barred account of life as an Australian SAS medic during the war in Afghanistan”. Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
On todays Care Under Fire, I catch up with Bernadette Serong, Bernie has had an extensive career as an Army Medic and now General Service Officer with operational experience in Afghanistan, Fiji, Iraq and domestically as a health commander during covid and bushfire assistance missions. We chat about Bernie’s time as an AME medic, women in Defence through to her mental health battles and treating her close mate SGT McQuilty Quirke NSC, after he was ejected from a bushmaster that was hit by an IED. As Bernie is still serving, this episode has been approved for release by Defence Media. It represents the views of the individuals and not Defence.Lifeline 13 11 14, Open Arms 1800 011 046
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