Pomegranate Health

About Pomegranate Health

Pomegranate Health is a podcast about the culture of medicine. You'll hear clinicians, researchers and advocates discuss all aspects of professionalism and quality improvement in healthcare. This includes clinical ethics, diagnostic bias, better communication and more equitable systems. For a sampler of these diverse themes of professional practice take a listen to Episode 132 (https://www.racp.edu.au/pomegranate/view/ep132-ten-years-of-pomegranate-health) and Episode 125 (https://www.racp.edu.au/pomegranate/view/ep135-wherefore-a-pomegranate-and-other-classics-from-the-last-ten-years). If RACP is your CPD home, you can log time spent listening to each episode with the "Add activity to MyCPD" button. And if you're a Basic Physician Trainee, the [Case Report] series might help you prepare for your long case clinical exams. This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], featuring authors from the Internal Medicine Journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14455994) sharing their latest research. Meanwhile, the [Journal Club] episodes give RACP members a place to talk through their research published in other academic journals. Feel free to send feedback and suggestions by email at podcast@racp.edu.au (mailto:podcast@racp.edu.au).

Publisher

the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jun 2015

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 162 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   [IMJ On-Air] Race-neutral equations for classification of lung function

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2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Ep158: Iron infusions and fracture risk. A safety signal for ferric carboxymaltose

   Dr. Jane Smith, a leading hematologist, discusses how ferric carboxymaltose infusions may increase fracture risk in women, offering crucial insights for patient safety.

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Ep157: AI models for discharge letters and clinical coding

   Host Dr. Anya Sharma explores how AI models enhance clinical coding and streamline discharge letters, offering new insights into patient care continuity.

Inside a recent episode

[IMJ On-Air] Race-neutral equations for classification of lung function

Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] As such, race-specific equations were developed to provide an adjusted reference value appropriate to the patient in front of you. As noted in the paper, prominent examples of such equations have come from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from the USA and the Global Lung Function Initiative from the European Respiratory Society. But times they are a-changing. In recent years, the merit of this adjustment for ethnicity has been debated in major reviews in the European Respiratory Journal, CHEST, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. That perhaps it's not race that drives population differences, but other modifiable factors. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

334,045

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

67

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

89

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