Emma EspinerEmma Espiner

Emma Espiner is a trainee doctor and comments on social issues, equity, health, and politics. She is the host of podcast Getting Better: A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student.

Review: The Checkup smartly answers all your stupid medical questions

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Doctor Emma Espiner watches TVNZ’s The Checkup, which promises to tell you the things about health that you really want to know. I lie to my doctor. It’s even worse now that I’m a doctor too and she treats me like a colleague. I pretend to know things that I don’t just so she doesn’t … Read more

The doctor devoted to improving Māori breast cancer care

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Emma Espiner talks to Dr Maxine Ronald, the only wahine Māori consultant breast cancer surgeon in the world, about inequities in breast cancer outcomes for Māori. We were sitting in the clinic room, waiting for the last patient of the day. When she came in I recognised the Māori woman who had received a double … Read more