Bonus Episode 5: The Last Word
This final episode of the Sick To Death podcast series unpacks the remaining rollercoaster ride in the Dr Jayant Patel saga. Patel's fight within the criminal justice system goes high and low, marked ...
16 Apr 1h 3min
Bonus Episode 4: The Waiting Game
The story of Dr Jayant Patel and others involved in the saga surrounding his two-year tenure at the Bundaberg Base Hospital was far from over when Hedley Thomas emailed the manuscript for his book Sic...
9 Apr 1h 10min
Episode 14: Payback
What was meant to be a light‑hearted dinner becomes weaponised into a scandal. The fallout leads to calls for Commissioner Tony Morris to be sidelined. But pressure doesn’t relent for Queensland Heal...
13 Mars 53min
Episode 15: The Collapse
Queenslanders are outraged when the Commission of Inquiry led by Tony Morris collapses following a successful court challenge by hospital administrators Peter Leck and Dr Darren Keating. Premier Peter...
13 Mars 58min
Episode 16: Dear Dr Patel
As Hedley travels to the United States in hopes of a face-to-face interview with Jayant Patel, Geoff Davies delivers his findings to Premier Peter Beattie. The result is a multimillion-dollar cash inj...
13 Mars 53min
From The Front: How we made the smash-hit Sick to Death podcast
Two years, 500 gigabytes of audio, and more than 200 voice actors. The Australian’s podcast adaptation of Hedley Thomas’ best-selling book Sick to Death is nearing its conclusion. It’s the story of th...
13 Mars 20min
Episode 13: Wound Feuds
Hedley traces Dr Jayant Patel’s roots in Jamnagar, where former colleagues describe an autocratic surgeon whose unchecked ego foreshadowed disaster. Meanwhile in Australia, police weigh a slow extrad...
12 Mars 55min
