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Treating a medical emergency ... in space

4/10/202643 min

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First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

    [upbeat music] ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music, and more There was a chook who was left something like 10 million pounds in a will.

  2. Speaker 20:12

    [chicken clucking] She was called Jiju, but she was rich, so maybe posh, like Jiju. [trumpet sounding] Anyway, does that mean I can leave my car to my cat or my Dado to my dog? What The Duck? is presenting nature's most wanted, the intersection of animals and the law. You know, pigs being tried for murder or ducks getting speeding tickets. [duck quacking] What The Duck?, on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

  3. Norman Swan· Host0:36

    So Priya, have you ever had this ambition to be a cruise doctor? You know, sort of out there on the high seas and you're the doctor on this luxury cruise.

  4. Priya Alexander· Host0:46

    [laughs] Spoiler alert, I'm not into cruises because [laughs] gastro outbreaks scare me. [laughs] So I've never had this dream.

  5. Norman Swan· Host0:55

    [laughs] So you've got this personal aversion.

  6. Priya Alexander· Host0:57

    I do.

  7. Norman Swan· Host0:58

    [laughs] But some people like, you know, they like Survivor or things like that. You know, they, they like to be the doctor in the middle of nowhere, and I'm gonna save you. I mean, that's never, never been a fantasy of yours?

  8. Priya Alexander· Host1:07

    No. I quite like being [laughs] around imaging- Technology ... pathology.

  9. Norman Swan· Host1:13

    Yeah.

  10. Priya Alexander· Host1:13

    Yes. And, and help if I need it. No, I, I don't have that desire. Why, do you?

  11. Norman Swan· Host1:17

    No. God, it terrifies the hell out of me. Absolutely terrifies me. And how much more would it be if you're stuck on a spaceship in the middle of bloody nowhere?

  12. Priya Alexander· Host1:28

    Mm.

  13. Norman Swan· Host1:29

    And

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