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 Albert Viljoen, Being Fully Human
What does it take to move beyond inherited roles and identities and become more fully ourselves?In this episode of Awakening Doctor, host Maria Christodoulou speaks with Dr Albert Viljoen, a medical doctor turned leadership coac...
Dr Anne Biccard, Grand Old Lady of the ED
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 emergency department. In this episode of Awakening Doctor, Anne speaks ...
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...
