Radiolab again. This episode is very moving. What happens when people have to ration medical care in extreme situations?

The story focuses first on Sheri Fink’s reporting of “Five Days at Memorial“, then on a public forum in Baltimore, and finally on an person who needed oxygen during a disaster in Haiti.

After Hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke, at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans there were 5 days of serious trauma because of limited resources. At several points, people had to make difficult choices about whose needs would be given priority. Then discussion started to creep further toward other difficult choices that might have to be made…

Since i got my android phone, i’ve been loving the radio. Listen-when-you-want kind of radio, aka the PODCAST.

Woo. Here’s a couple of my favourites:

ONE) Elektrocast

This is from a podcast called Elektrokast which i really like (mp3).

Episode 45: “Torro Remote White Light mix”.

Actually it’s 2 years since they stopped broadcasting, but still good sounds.

Posting it here because i thought Tim might like it. DJ Tim, also known as DJ Fluff, runs a very excellent radio show out of Castlemaine called Sensoreum. (Did you have a faceboo page

I really enjoyed this interview with Wally de Becker (aka Gotye). Fascinating guy, and very softly spoken. Doesn’t sound like the whole experience is going to his head, which is nice.

Great anecdote about a singing fence in Queensland, which he used for one of the songs on this album.

Here’s the episode online. It’s taken from one of the NPR podcasts – World Cafe. Ah, i really like the way you can search all their channels for mention of any artist, for example search for Gotye.

Direct link to the mp3 interview here, which you can play or download.