Podcasts

August 21, 2025
A podcast series where Bruce shares conversations with inspiring people, learning from their experiences since his life-changing accident.
Man in pink cap and sunglasses, standing in front of a large poster featuring a child.
By Bruce Powell August 20, 2025
Bruce reflects upon the powerful impact of organ donation upon his personal and professional career.
July 16, 2025
Award-winning research! Bruce takes home Best Poster at the Montreal Brain Injury Congress, connecting with passionate clinicians worldwide.
July 16, 2024
One more chat before Janco returns to his proper career, working in “sustainability”, whatever that means. 1:05 Med Student mentoring. Brain Melt. 3:15 Golf 5:49 Beards at school 7:45 ADHD labels 10:40 Brain Injury Unit 14:10 Qantas pyjamas 15:30 Transition from patient to independent person again 17:00 Naked podcasting and nudism 27:15 Escape Plan 28:10 Base jumping and nudity 28:50 Cognitive collapse and Ritalin. 34:45 Hard to be in medicine if you don’t fit in 36:30 ADD vs ADHD 37:45 MAFFS? Isn’t that married at first sight? 38:50 Let Janco talk more
Me and Janco chatting about neurodiversity, the past and the future.
July 16, 2024
Join an inspiring discussion on ADHD, music composition, social anxiety, and building strong foundations in life and work.
Pierre smiling in old photograph.
July 16, 2023
Honouring Pierre: a shared hospital room, a lasting memory, and a story of human connection.
July 16, 2020
Dr Bruce Powell shares how a near-fatal crash reshaped his life, medicine, and insights into being a better doctor.

Episode 1 

FUBARBUNDY


Waking up in Intensive Care, “F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition But Not Dead Yet”, Dr Bruce Powell tries to make sense of what has happened.

Episode 2 

All Change


Becoming an optimist, starting to make some sense of the traumatic events of that September day.

Episode 3

Christmas Day in Intensive Care


Despite being an experienced Intensive Care doctor, it is hard to understand what has happened. Paranoia, confusion and euphoria make a complex cocktail.

Episode 4

Trauma Unit and the Great Escape


Despite being an experienced Intensive Care doctor, it is hard to understand what has happened. Paranoia, confusion and euphoria make a complex cocktail.

Episode 5 

Making Friends at the Rehab Hospital


When you’re a patient as well as a doctor, it can be tricky to tell which one you are supposed to be. Especially when life remains familiar and also deeply strange.

Episode 6

Back to Life – Back to Reality


Trauma is different for everyone. If you don’t really understand what happened, it isn’t especially distressing. Loved ones suffer in silence, back at the BnB.

Episode 7

Back Home


However confusing hospital can be, getting home and coming to terms with the time that has passed, is a new troubling challenge.

Episode 8

Insight can be a painful thing


Time passes slowly and the increasing realisation what has happened, is confronting and enlightening.

Episode 9

So What?


What does any of that mean? The end of the first season, and the start of something new. Coming to terms with our own realities.

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