Awakening Doctor
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 practice it. Join Dr. Maria Christodoulou as she meets with colleagues, leaders, and educators in healthcare to reveal the human side of being a medical professional.
Awakening Doctor
Latest Episodes
Dr Wonderful Thabiso Khumalo, A Young Man from Katlehong
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 scholar, award-winning poet, and emerging global health researc...
Chloe Hope, The End-of-Life Doula
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 Christodoulou speaks with end-of-life doula, death educator, ...
Sarah Stein, Being a Good Human
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 in Medical School, in which she wrote candidly abou...
Dr Lethukwenama Letsoalo, A Girl from Bergville
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 health is deeply shaped by community, identity, and purpose.Le...
