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Rondhir Jithoo is a neurosurgeon who has such a wide range in his career it is hard to summarise briefly. I first met Rondhir about 20 years ago and I am amazed what he has done during that time.

Andrew Fravel is a recent orthopaedic graduate with a strong interest in joint replacement infection. More importantly he calm and balanced approach to his work life balance.

Chris Stokes is an registrar that has recently completed his final exam. He offers insights to life beyond training.

Paul is a recent registrar that I have had the pleasure of working with over the recent years. Once again, I got to listen to what the next generation of doctors and surgeons think about their work, training dn what life might look like in the future.

Patrick Elias is a orthopaedic registrar that has recently been accepted onto the training programme for orthopaedics. He discussed the challenges of having a young family and balancing that with a busy medical life.

Nick Paltoglou has been a trainee registrar at our hospital and this was chance to look back on the good the bad and what could be better. We talked about the challenges that can be seen during training.

The podcast guests today Ben, Muqi and Nick. These are three people that I've worked with regularly over the last 12 months and beyond. It's very much a light-hearted podcast and I hope you enjoy it.

Ben Lyons is a Orthopaedic nurse at a major Melbourne trauma centre. He has a wealth of of experience and has a great attitude towards his word and life in general.

Jarrad Stevens is an othopaedic surgeon. We talked about medicine, the military and some of the challenges that daily life offers us.

Luis Prado is the CMO for Epworth healthcare. He has been in the role for some years now. However, as always with these conversations we quickly left medicine and talked about gardening, history and military history. We did touch on COVID but not as much as one would think.

Alex Meldrum is a Canadian trained fellow who has come to Australia to gain experience in trauma care. He has done so during a difficult time but has still managed to get the most out of the experience and he should be commended on this. We talked about a lot of things but focused on what he likes to do when not working.

John Daffy is an infectious disease physician.  He has been working in this are for over 2 decades. Being from a rural back ground he has very pragmatic approach to medicine.  More interesting is the back story about how he took time off from medical school to focus on running and his interest in horse training.  In recent months he has been on other podcasts including "You cannot be serious" . In this podcast he discusses the importance of getting the vaccine to an audience who may be more reluctant to get the vaccine.

Richard Page is an Orthopaedic surgeon based in Geelong. He has a primary area of interest in upper limb pathology and takes on the challenge of research better than most.

Ian Harris appears on the podcast for the second time. This time it is discuss the issues that affect medicine and surgery and utility of some interventions. This is in the lead up to a new book that he has coming out called  - Hippocrasy, How doctors are betraying their oath.

Phillip Antippa is a cardiothoracic surgeon at the but has a particular interest in thoracic surgery. He has developed techniques for plating rib fractures and he discusses the learning curve associated with this procedure. Like always it is hard to avoid how COVID affects our life these days.  Out of medicine he has a keen interest in music and we talk about how this interest has grown over time.