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 locatio…
Care Under Fire
by Australian Army Veteran and Medic, Nurse, Midwife Emma
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
Latest Episodes
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 1R…
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 pe…
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 fle…
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 perso…
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 …
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 l…
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 f…
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 patien…
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 exp…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 yea…
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, PT…
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…
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 w…
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 fire…
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 t…
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…