Trauma was produced for Radio Eye as part of the international exchange series Global
Perspective. In 2004 Global Perspective explored issues and ideas surrounding health
in Ghana, Britain, The Netherlands, the USA, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Australia.
synopsis
TRAUMA is an observational snapshot of life at the Alfred Hospital's
Trauma and Emergency Department in Melbourne, Australia. In a kaleidoscopic style
Mark Fitzgerald the Director of Emergency Services, takes us into the heart of his
department - a place where life-changing events occur with relentless regularity
against a background of routine order. As staff and patients share their experiences
of suddenly arriving at the hospital or coming home from it every day, the program
explores what place the Big Questions have in an environment equipped to maintain
the mechanics of life from one moment to the next.
Duration: 28:30
featuring
The staff of the Alfred Hospital and Metropolitan Ambulance Service of Victoria,
including: Mark Fitzgerald, Kylie Wilson, Karen Flett, Justine Bradley, Tara Merifield,
Gerard O'Reilly, Stewart Hill and Michelle Wooley.
Patients and their families at the Alfred's Trauma and Emergency Department during
October 2003 including: Roger Wilson, Rosemary Dimasi, Jenny Sturt, Dean Hemphill,
George Quinn, Allen McFarlane, Beatrice Dickens and Adam Matthews.
credits
Producer: Kyla Brettle
Executive Producer: Tony MacGregor
Final Audio Mix by Paul Penton at ABC Southbank Studios Melbourne, Australia.
Produced by ABC Radio National's Radio Eye.
All music used in the program is derived from Steve Reich's Different Trains performed
by the Kronos Quartet and Electric Counterpoint performed by Pat Metheny.
© ABC Radio National and Kyla Brettle 2004
First broadcast
on ABC Radio National's Radio Eye Saturday March the 6th, 2004.
Subsequent broadcasts:
- Soundprint Media Network, March 19, 2004;
- Radio Netherlands' Vox Humana, Wednesday March 21, 2004;
- KFAI Public Radio, Minneapolis/St Paul, Tuesday June 15, 2004;
- Radio New Zealand's National Radio, Sunday June 27, 2004;
- ABC
Radio National's Health Report, Monday February 14, 2005;
- ABC RN Radio
Eye, Saturday February 4, 2006.
A warm thank you to Trisha Lee, Richard Girvan, Lea Redfern, Carey Dell, Michelle
Matthews and John Diver.
Photography courtesy of the Alfred Hospital.
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