MennoHealth Cast
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Episode 8-9: Front line providers
As the Coronavirus Pandemic continues, MennoHealth Cast host, Joann Hunsberger, speaks with two front line providers, Anna Hershey and Kaedi Baer. Both Anna and Kaedi are nurses who have been redeployed during the pandemic. This is a two-part podcast. In part 1, Anna, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, talks about working at a coronavirus testing location. In part 2, Kaedi, who normally works in a surgical center in Parker, Colorado, has been redeployed to an emergency room. Listen as both women discuss some of the challenges of redeployment and working at the front line of the pandemic.
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MennoHealth Cast seeks to highlight the personal stories of nurses, doctors, health researchers, dentists, chaplains, social workers, advanced practitioners, and others involved in various fields related to the care of human beings. MennoHealth Cast is hosted by Joann Hunsberger, a pediatric anesthesiologist specializing in intraoperative anesthesia and post-operative pain management in children.
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Previous Podcasts
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Episode 11: Introducing Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship’s new executive director, Cate Desjardins, MDiv, MPH. Chaplaincy during Covid19, Miracles, Surrogate Decision-Making and More.
Episode 7: Ethical Considerations during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Listen in as Joann Hunsberger interviews Rev. Joseph J. Kotva Jr. Ph.D., an Anabaptist bioethicist as they discuss some of the ethical conundrums related to patient care and provider protections during the coronavirus pandemic.
Episode 6: Special Episode on COVID-19
In this episode, our host, Joann Hunsberger discusses COVID-10 with Dr. Dan Nafziger from Goshen, Indiana where he is Chief Medical Officer at Goshen Health. Listen in as they discuss the novel coronavirus, some common terminology used to discuss the pandemic and how it might effect our church community culture.
Episode 5 – Douglas Smucker
In Episode 5 of MennoHealth Cast, Joann Hunsberger speaks with Dr. Doug Smucker. Dr. Smucker started his career as a family medicine doctor and later evolved into a palliative and hospice medicine doctor. In this podcast, he talks about the struggles and challenges of caring for patients in their final days and discusses how his Goshen College education was formative in his career choices.
Episode 4 – Linda Witmer
Episode 4 of MennoHealth Cast features Linda Witmer who spent 23 years serving the K’ekchi’, the indigenous people of Guatemala, as a representative of both Mennonite Central Committee and Eastern Mennonite Missions (EMM).
Episode 3 – David Sack
Mennos in Medicine Episode 3: David Sack
David Sack is a professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Sack discusses the evolution of the oral cholera vaccine…
Episode 2 – Rebecca Heidkamp
Mennos in Medicine Episode 2: Rebecca Heidkamp
Rebecca Heidkamp is a public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. She specializes in addressing nutrition problems in locations with low resources. In this…
Episode 1 – Karen Vundla
Mennos in Medicine Episode 1: Karen Vundla
Our host, Joann Hunsberger, talks with Karen Vundla who recently completed her 46-year career in nursing. They talk about Karen’s experiences in clinical nursing in various locations including Zimbabwe,…
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