Awakening Doctor
Dr Maria Christodoulou
The Awakening Doctor podcast explores the personal stories of those who work in the medical and health professions. Each episode aims to highlight the humanity of an individual doctor or healer, and thereby challenge and transform social perceptions of the profession and the individuals who…
Episodes
Dr Anne Biccard has spent nearly three decades working on the frontlines of South Africa’s healthcare system, much of that time in the intensity and unpredictability of the…
16 days ago1:28:15
What are the odds that a young man from Sluma View, Katlehong, will find himself at Oxford University? Whatever they are, Dr Wonderful Thabiso Khumalo, medical doctor, Rhodes…
06 May 20261:36:58
What might change if we allowed ourselves to really be with death? If we turned towards our mortality, rather than away from it? In this episode of Awakening Doctor, host Maria…
01 Apr 20261:24:09
Before she even graduates as a doctor, final-year medical student Sarah Stein is already asking questions many doctors avoid. Her widely published article, What They Don’t Teach…
04 Mar 20261:16:10
In this episode of Awakening Doctor, we meet Dr Lethukwenama Letsoalo, a medical doctor from Bergville in rural KwaZulu-Natal, whose personal journey into medicine and public…
04 Feb 20261:10:25
What do you do when the plan you’re committed to doesn’t work out the way you’d hoped, but your sense of purpose stays the same? Dr Bianca Leigh Edwards - or Dr B, as she’s…
07 Jan 20261:28:01
From growing up among political exiles to advocating for the right to health and shaping national policy, Professor Lydia Cairncross's career traces the edges of the operating…
03 Dec 20251:23:48
What would the world be like if we understood that each time a patient shares their story, they are inviting us into the sacred ground of their life? What wisdom might we gain…
05 Nov 20251:26:50
In this episode of Awakening Doctor, we meet Dr Yumna Moosa, clinician-scientist, mathematician, mother, activist, and truth-teller. Fresh from her PhD graduation, Yumna speaks…
01 Oct 20251:13:17
What are the deeper reasons that draw us into the healing professions, and how do they shape the way we practice medicine? In this episode of Awakening Doctor, Dr Angela de Sá –…
03 Sept 20251:31:35
Professor Hennie Botha is a renowned gynaecological oncologist and the Executive Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Stellenbosch University. A leading clinician, teacher,…
06 Aug 20251:20:11
Servant leadership is not a job description; it’s a way of being. One that Professor Beth Engelbrecht has embodied with rare clarity and quiet conviction across more than three…
02 Jul 20251:24:04
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