Norman Swan
speaker
4,170 appearances
23 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The clinic, the telehealth clinic, or the practitioner.
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I'm just thinking, you know, when I go and choose a healthcare professional, don't we deserve transparency to make an informed decision on who we see?
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See, I would argue with that, Justin.
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So, you know, Dr. Almudaris, who I think people will have seen in the media, who has allegedly had multiple medical negligence lawsuits, some of which have been settled.
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If you go into that practitioner's APRA profile, there's nothing there.
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So even if there is potential action or there has been some sort of legal outcome, it's not necessarily transparent for patients who are choosing their health professional.
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Justin Untensteiner, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, or ARPRA.
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ABC
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Now, you mentioned the impacts of sleep deprivation with your children, and I have to say I didn't deal with that at all well.
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In either pregnancy or postpartum phase, I am just not a person who deals well with a lack of sleep, and that's why I am not a shift worker.
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I actually chose general practice, so I would never have to wake up in the middle of the night.
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It's just not good for my body or my brain.
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There's a piece that's been published in The Lancet, Obstetrics and Gynecology, where
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Which is eye-opening.
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And all these jokes that we tend to make about, oh, I'm so fatigued and my sleep is off in pregnancy and I'm up a thousand times in the night with the newborn.
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It turns out it can actually have a lot of risks when it comes to metabolic health and cardiovascular health for the mother.
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But there are also potential implications for the infant.
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And I spoke to one of the authors of this piece, Helen Collins, who's assistant professor at the University of Louisville Centre for Cardiometabolic Science.
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feel like, Helen, a lot of the sleep disruption that happens in pregnancy is really normalised.
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You know, I remember being pregnant, you talk to your friends and you go, oh, you know, the sleep is completely off.
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