Featured Media Appearances

ON THE WARDS Podcast

1st September 2021

Abhi Pal speaks with Ranjana Srivastava about her varied career, in which she has used writing to explore the interplay of humanities and clinical medicine.

LIVE DELIBERATELY

The Bucket Podcast

27th February 2020

As an oncologist, Dr. Ranjana Srivastava is no stranger to death and dying. But in this podcast, the author of the new book, “A Better Death: Conversations about the art of living and dying well” talks about how her experiences have helped shape her perspective on a very Buckety theme — how acknowledging your mortality can help you live a more fulfilling life. Says Srivastava, “We often go through our lives without contemplating that we are mortal.” Instead, she explains, we need to get our priorities straight and “live deliberately”, without waiting for a terminal diagnosis to force us into it. Amen.

BIG IDEAS

ABC Radio National

9th December 2019

Dr Ranjana Srivastava has spent more than 20 years treating patients with cancer, often dispensing very bad news. Along the way she has gained acute insights into life, death and the practice of medicine.  As the end approaches, what matters? How do people cope?  How do doctors deal with death?  She is in conversation with Paul Barclay.

One Plus One

ABC TV

July 2019

A candid interview discussing Ranjana’s life experiences and how it has informed her approach to patient care and living well.

CATALYST

ABC TV

March 2017

Every day in Australia 360 people learn they have cancer. It goes without saying it's a very stressful time. Stress as a cause of cancer has not been convincingly proven but recently researchers have been looking at how stress drives the spread of an existing cancer from the original tumour.

The Conversation hour

774 ABC Radio Melbourne

25th July 2019

For this talkback forum on dying well Jon Faine is joined in the studio by Dr Ranjana Srivastava and Dr Heather Tan.

Ranjana is an oncologist, writer, and broadcaster. Her latest book is A Better Death: Conversations about the art of living and dying well.

Heather is manager of education and research at the Spiritual Health Association.

THE WHEELER CENTRE

July 2019

There's much to celebrate in the history of Australian medicine and medical care – from the famous breakthrough in penicillin to the development of the Gardasil vaccine. Our Medicare model is the envy of many countries.

But have we become complacent? What are the pre-existing and emerging gaps in our system? And how might we adapt our healthcare and research models in line with changes in demography and technology?

In this Fifth Estate discussion, Gustav Nossal and Ranjana Srivastava join Sally Warhaft for a long, hard look at Australian healthcare today. Where do we need to direct our investment? Join us for a conversation about who’s getting adequate care, who’s missing out and what we can learn from care and research models overseas.

The art of Medicine

Fulbright TEDx Talk Melbourne

14th September 2017

What I learnt from my experience is that while the technical things matter, what matters most of all is the art of medicine. Ranjana Srivastava is an oncologist, award-winning author and columnist for The Guardian. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her work on doctor-patient communication.