Aug 6, 2026 · 2 hr 12 min · 13 segments
In this episode, Inia Raumati shares his remarkable journey from early life in Taranaki, through the challenges of boarding school and medical training, to becoming a leading emergency doctor and…
Inia RaumatiGuestTymon BernardoHostLike when you sort of hear people talk about that, does that, I know you're sort of saying that you've, what did you say just before we jumped on and we were chatting around the stage of life that you're at? Do you feel like it's a lot that you've squeezed in or do you feel like there's a hell of a lot that you wanna squeeze more of reference to all the things that you've been doing in the past 20, 30 years?
I guess as you're getting older, you either start a podcast or you start remissing about what you haven't done in your life or what you could have done a bit better or more of.
I'm in my 50s now and I always look back at the races and I wouldn't change any part of that for the world.
Talking medical career-wise, there's things I would have changed and done better.
And I spend quite often time now with younger doctors, talking to young Maori doctors and stuff like that, and just saying, hey, this is where I went wrong.
This is where you didn't play the game right, or this is where you let yourself be taken advantage of a bit, and this is what's delayed my career because I Like I'm a senior doctor in emergency, but I'm not an emergency medicine consultant, if that makes sense.
Like I've never completed the emergency medicine training scheme, like the full fellowship.
Like I know, and you've, you sort of hold multiple roles or have held multiple roles from like a medical lens.
You know, what's the sort of like upkeep to sort of stay in the game with that? I know I'm not probably jumping forward a little bit and I'm keen to go back at some point to early days and what led you to here.
But I'm always interested, like what's the sort of currency for the sort of specializations that you have? Like how much of your year does it take just to say current and continue learning alongside actually practicing?
Yeah, so I guess if you join a fellowship or a training program and you specialize, then they sort of dictate your life.
And they cover, like if they're doing their job correctly and if you're staying up, then it's not that hard to juggle things to stay current.
Like when you sort of hear people talk about that, does that, I know you're sort of saying that you've, what did you say just before we jumped on and we were chatting around the stage of life that you're at? Do you feel like it's a lot that you've squeezed in or do you feel like there's a hell of a lot that you wanna squeeze more of reference to all the things that you've been doing in the past 20, 30 years?
I guess as you're getting older, you either start a podcast or you start remissing about what you haven't done in your life or what you could have done a bit better or more of.
I'm in my 50s now and I always look back at the races and I wouldn't change any part of that for the world.
Talking medical career-wise, there's things I would have changed and done better.
And I spend quite often time now with younger doctors, talking to young Maori doctors and stuff like that, and just saying, hey, this is where I went wrong.
This is where you didn't play the game right, or this is where you let yourself be taken advantage of a bit, and this is what's delayed my career because I Like I'm a senior doctor in emergency, but I'm not an emergency medicine consultant, if that makes sense.
Like I've never completed the emergency medicine training scheme, like the full fellowship.
Like I know, and you've, you sort of hold multiple roles or have held multiple roles from like a medical lens.
You know, what's the sort of like upkeep to sort of stay in the game with that? I know I'm not probably jumping forward a little bit and I'm keen to go back at some point to early days and what led you to here.
But I'm always interested, like what's the sort of currency for the sort of specializations that you have? Like how much of your year does it take just to say current and continue learning alongside actually practicing?
Yeah, so I guess if you join a fellowship or a training program and you specialize, then they sort of dictate your life.
And they cover, like if they're doing their job correctly and if you're staying up, then it's not that hard to juggle things to stay current.
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