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Voodoo Medics are Australia's best combat healers who combine “unconventional medicine and unconventional warfare”. Journalist Kristin Shorten sat down with six medics, the soldiers they treated in Afghanistan and the families of those killed overseas.
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Signup to Generate a PitchVoodoo Medics are Australia's best combat healers who combine “unconventional medicine and unconventional warfare”. Journalist Kristin Shorten sat down with six medics, the soldiers they treated in Afghanistan and the families of those killed overseas.
Voodoo Medics is hosted by Daily Telegraph. The show has published 16 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Dear Rachelle - Australia's new true crime obsession" (7 June 2025, 38 minutes), "NEW PODCAST: Dear Rachelle" (4 April 2025, 3 minutes), and "Introducing - I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin" (12 April 2020, 1 minute).
Voodoo Medics publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 16 minutes across 16 episodes.
Booking probability for Voodoo Medics is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Voodoo Medics requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Voodoo Medics's contact route on record: verified email.
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Daily Telegraph hosts Voodoo Medics, a society podcast with 16 episodes published.
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Episode 1 is published Sunday 19th April, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts now <p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>
Episode #14
This Australian bush fire season has been unprecedented. In this podcast you will hear harrowing accounts of survival and the incredible acts of bravery and kindness which are helping the town of Malua Bay in southern...
Episode #13
The journalist behind The Daily Telegraph's Voodoo Medics investigation Kristin Shorten chats about the project and how it went from a discussion in a Bali bar, to becoming Australia's top news subscription series...
Episode #12
The bullet that ricocheted into Rowan Robinson’s throat and killed him missed his body armour by millimetres. Just hours earlier, the 23-year-old Special Forces engineer, who was on his second deployment to Afghanistan...
Episode #11
Signaller Sean McCarthy had thoroughly prepared for the worst before he was killed by a Taliban IED in Afghanistan, even organising a touching gift for friends back home in the event of his death. His parents David and...
Episode #10
Corporal Tom Newkirk had an advantage while settling into life after 10 years in the military; his wife Kate who also deployed overseas as a medic, assisting tsunami-affected Indonesians in Sumatra. The medic couple...
Episode #9
Former military psychologist Clint Marlborough has described combat medics as “unflappable” soldiers who in most cases, walk away from trauma “feeling fine”. <p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>
Episode #8
Chad Elliott was one of the first Australian soldiers to be seriously wounded in Afghanistan. It is a day that the former commando describes as both vivid in parts but “a bit blurry”, and above all “pretty chaotic”...
Episode #7
If you couldn’t be saved by a medic in the field in Afghanistan, you weren’t going to be saved. It’s that simple, according to 20-year Australian Defence Force veteran Bram Connolly who deployed to the Middle Eastern...
Episode #6
The differences between Afghanistan and Australia became clear on the operating table for Voodoo Medic Brad Watts who has described the difficulties of treating injured women civilians. <p>See omnystudio.com/listener...
Episode #5
Jeremy Holder patched up dozens of civilians and soldiers while deployed as a combat medic in Afghanistan and now his battlefield experiences are helping save lives at home, including the life of NSW Police Officer...
Episode #4
Despite 14 “invigorating” years in the military, the deaths of three soldiers on the battlefields of Afghanistan sent Major Dan Pronk into a tailspin. <p>See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.</p>
Episode #3
Mark Donaldson was the first Australian to be awarded a Victoria Cross in almost four decades, but the former SASR Operator claims he was a "professional bum" before joining the ADF in 2002. <p>See...
Episode #2
The role of a combat medic has changed dramatically over the decades with war zone healers tasked with keeping up or becoming a burden. Voodoo Medic Corporal Jody Tieche explains the “ditch medicine mentality” of the...
Episode #1
Sergeant Jonathan Walter sits down with Kristin Shorten for a chat about his time in Afghanistan and East Timor, receiving a Nursing Service Cross and Bar, and treating Signaller Sean McCarthy after an IED explosion in...
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