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| Episode 104 - Immunology 102 | Lymphocyte Maturation & The Lymph Node | 15 Sep 2026 | 00:29:34 | |
For the first time, Cale, Nick and Bashar have managed to maintain a contiguous thought across two different episodes and are returning to school - for the basics of immunology. But they’re not going back as teachers, no, the boys are going undercover as a naïve B-cell and following the journey to the lymph node. Will they be shunned to the uncool table like they were in high school? Can they avoid the murderous hunger games of the dark zone. Will they switch classes or somatically hypermutate? Find out on the next episode of 21 Ju… Lymph Node Street. TIMESTAMPS 0:53 - Disguise 101 Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 103 - On The Wards: Breaking Bad . . . Cells | Tumour Lysis Syndrome | 01 Sep 2026 | 00:42:35 | |
Have you been asked to review “TLS” bloods?? Are you concerned the nursing staff are pranking you with haematology bloods that don’t include a FBC or coags? Why could you possibly want to look at something that isn’t a cell count? What crazy person decided after hours bloods needed to be collected on ICE? And WHY ?!?! Join us for an On The Wards approach to dealing with those TDS TLS SOS calls. TIMESTAMPS: 0:56 - The team breaking stuff Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 102 - Reign in Blood | Heavy Metals in Haematology | 18 Aug 2026 | 00:31:36 | |
It’s the heaviest matter of haematology as we look at the role of heavy metals in our favourite metalloenzymes. What - you don’t have a favourite metalloenzyme? But nothing else matters?! Anyway, this is no esoteric surgical content, join us as Nick, Cale and Bashar get comfy with the weirder parts of the periodic table and how they apply to less common deficiencies or toxicities in haematology. Look we’ll be honest with you - this is pretty low yield listening but it was fun, and really isn’t that point at the end of the day. TIMESTAMPS 0:55 - Wacken Open Air or Bloody Minded? Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 101 - Let’s get K-rakin | All about Vitamin K | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:42:06 | |
Is it a giant Cthulu-esque sea monster? Is it an excellent Australian parody breakfast show? No - it’s everyone’s favourite (well everyone who counts) coagulation related Vitamin - Vitamin K! Where does it come from? Why is it so hard to find on the eMR when you want to prescribe it and what is it doing under phytomenadione? Can we test for it? After listening to Nick, Cale and Bashar wax lyrical about carboxylation for half an hour you’ll be ready to vitamin K-nock yourself out. TIMESTAMPS 0:53 - Birdsong Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 100 - 100 Not Out | A Bloody History of Haematology | 04 Aug 2026 | 00:37:30 | |
Four humours in balance, the ancients decreed -
1:49 - Sappy Stuff Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 99 - It’s the B’s Knees | In The Lab : B12 and B9 (Folate) Testing | 28 Jul 2026 | 00:25:02 | |
Two vitamins survived the great B-numbering cull to become the tests we order most and trust least. Meet the 80% of your B12 result your cells can't touch, and the antibody that sabotages the very test built to catch it. Join the Bloody Minded Crew as we come to the lab for a second time this season to learn how B12 and folate assays are performed. TIMESTAMPS 0:55 - The boys check out a new lab Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 98 - Liver Storage World | Approach to Hyperferritinaemia | 21 Jul 2026 | 00:27:59 | |
‘This bad boy can fit so much iron in it’ he said slapping the roof of a badly photoshopped molecule of apoferritin superimposed on a car. Is too much ferritin bad for you? Of course it is - too much is precisely the quantity that is in excess. But most of the time hyperferritinaemia has nothing to do with iron overload. Strap in to your 1992 Honda Civic as the Bloody Minded Crew learn all about ferritin, and why most of the time too much of it has nothing to do with your iron levels at all. Also join Cale specifically as he continues his vendetta against hepatology and their referrals. Timestamps 0:59 - Bashar visits the salon Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| BONUS - BloodyMinded x THANZ go to ISTH2026 | 20 Jul 2026 | 00:28:03 | |
It's a BONUS episode today as the Bloody Minded Crew are delighted to partner with the Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand (THANZ). After (correctly) exiling Nick to another country after he suggested yet more coagulation themed episodes, he's returned like Gandalf stronger and more powerful than ever. We cornered THANZ members at the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2026 meeting to chat about what was keeping them interested. Special thanks to Dr Danny Hsu, Dr Sara Ng, Dr George Mason, Dr Angela Huang, Dr Ibrahim Tohini-Esfahani, Dr Emily Powley, Dr Catherine Neal, Dr Marc Ellis, Dr Charithani Keragala, Hadley Bortz and Danielle Boyle for their contributions. Check out the THANZ website (www.thanz.org.au) and consider signing up if you're an Australian based scientist, clinician, nurse or allied health professional with an interest in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. There will be no show notes for this episode and our regular programming will continue as usual. Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 97 - There's a Hole in My Bucket | Iron, B12 and Folate Deficiency in Clinic | 14 Jul 2026 | 00:39:38 | |
Nick wanted to talk about buckets all episode. I’ve convinced him to at least let us get angry at iron polymaltose, hypophosphatemia and nangs all over again. You don’t think you need this episode but you’d be amazed how many consults come through to Haem thinking we’re the gatekeepers of iron in the building. Ironic, really. TIMESTAMPS 0:56 - 1960s pop culture reference Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 96 - On the Ning Nang Nongs | B12 and Folate Metabolism | 07 Jul 2026 | 00:34:47 | |
On the Ning Nang Nongs where the youths smoke bongs and the marrow all screams HELP! Join the Bloody Minded crew as they go through the round window, follow B12 and folate around the body in a Nang induced haze, presumably just like the writers on Play School once were. Mandatory viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUU1f3Mgpc&list=RD3SUU1f3Mgpc&start_radio=1 TIMESTAMPS 0:53 - A Bloody Minded After School Special Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 95 - Feeling Rusty? | In The Lab: Iron Studies | 30 Jun 2026 | 00:26:52 | |
Heal with steel? Absolutely not - There’s no alloys or for that matter surgeons allowed in the safe space of the laboratory. Join us on another wonderful lab adventure as Bashar, Cale and Nick head down to the biochemistry lab to work out exactly how our iron studies are performed in the lab before you throw the serum iron in the bin. TIMESTAMPS 0:53 - An early etymological diversion Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 94 - It should be a Fe-lony | Interpeting Iron Studies | 23 Jun 2026 | 00:25:08 | |
Taunted by transferrin? Befuddled by ferritin? Scratching your head at why we throw the serum iron results directly into the confidential waste bin, which is a more dignified burial than it deserves? Come along as the boys discuss the interpretation of iron studies in a definitely tight, definitely 20ish minute episode. Timestamps 00:54 - Just Iron Studies with No Nonsense Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 93 - The Silmaril-IRON | Iron Metabolism | 16 Jun 2026 | 00:44:03 | |
One molecule to rule them all, one molecule to find them. One molecule to bring them all, and in the liver bind them. Hepcidin is the key to understanding iron metabolism and we examine how iron gets into, around and out of the body. We promise not to be too Celebrimbor-ing as you join Nick, Cale and Bashar for this discussion of the basic science of iron handling in preparation for our journey into the building blocks of blood. Welcome to Lord of the Haematinics. TIMESTAMPS Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 92 - On The Wards: A Practical Guide To Anticoagulants | Part 3 (Fancy Anticoagulants) | 02 Jun 2026 | 00:40:00 | |
Has your ward team been hit with HITT? Is Jane the only Fonda you know? Is BAD an 80s hit and not a trio of anti-coagulation infusions (Bivalirudin, Argatroban and Danaparoid). Is Alison showing her age? Never fear; join Alison, Bashar, Nick and Cale as they aim to de-mystify less commonly used anticoagulation that may come up on the wards. TIMESTAMPS 0:56 - It's Fancypants Wednesday! Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 91 - Have you tried turning it off and on again? | Allogeneic transplant in AML with Prof John Moore | 19 May 2026 | 00:57:06 | |
Join us in our third straight week of incredibly nice and incredibly talented haematology gurus as Professor John Moore joins us as an expert guest to discuss stem cell transplant in the myeloid disease setting. TIMESTAMPS 1:00 – HYTTIOAOA Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 90 - GENEsis | In the Lab: NGS in AML with Dr Michael Krigstein | 12 May 2026 | 00:54:44 | |
This week we continue the pattern of guests who are really really ridiculously good at haematology and also really really ridiculously nice people as well. We are very excited to be joined by Dr Michael Krigstein who many of you would know as the a molecular haematology guru who has gotten countless patients through their diagnoses and countless haematology trainees through their exams. Timestamps: 01:30 - Introducing Dr Michael Krigstein Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 89 - What is this, disease for ants? | MRD in AML with Dr Jad Othman | 05 May 2026 | 00:59:11 | |
What happens when you take someone who is really really ridiculously good at haematology and also a really really ridiculously nice person as well? You get Dr Jad Othman, consultant Haematologist and Haematopathologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney who will be joining us today to discuss the use of measurable residual disease in acute myeloid leukaemia. Dr Othman is well suited to this topic, having written his doctoral thesis on molecular disease assessment in AML, sitting on the European LeukaemiaNet (ELN)-DAVID MRD Working Group as well as numerous ALLG AML and MDS working groups. We're delighted to have him field the Bloody Minded Crew's questions today. Timestamps 01:00 - The boys making outdated millenial references Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 88 - 1-2-3-4-5-6 | Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm | 28 Apr 2026 | 00:33:57 | |
Here’s a question, what do CD123, CD4 and CD56 have in common? Other than pleasing The Count on Sesame Street. Sorry, another question perhaps - what happens if you cross a plasma cell and a dendritic cell? The answers to these questions can be found on a most enigmatic myeloid cell - the plasmacytoid dendritic cell. And what happens when these rare beasts become neoplastic - why BPDCN of course. Embark on a journey into this weird and not so wonderful (but highly examinable) neoplasm with the Bloody Minded Crew TIMESTAMPS 0:57 – A glimpse into Cale's psyche Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 87 - Flitting About | In The Lab: FLT3 and NPM1 | 21 Apr 2026 | 00:52:25 | |
“It’s pronounced nuc-ul-ophosmin” “Nucleophosmin”. “Noo-clee-o-phosmin”. FLT3-ITD got you In The Dumps? Have a Total Knowledge Deficit about TKD mutations? Struggling with the A-B-Cs of NPM1 mutations? Want to know how a cat sarcoma is somehow related to AML? Join the Bloody Minded Crew as they flit about the laboratory looking at the structure of FLT3 and NPM1, what these proteins usually do and how we test for mutations in the advanced myeloid episode. == Edit 6/5/26 = We've been made aware that strictly speaking the current MANE approved transcript for NPM1.1 has only 11 exons and therefore the mutations are best to be considered in Exon 11 as opposed to exon 12 - in contrast to what we said. == Timestamps 0:52 - Bloody Minded issues a formal apology Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 86 - You Ugly | In The Lab: Bone Marrow Dysplasia | 14 Apr 2026 | 00:37:27 | |
U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi, you dysplastic yeah yeah you dysplastic. Apologies to all the ring sideroblasts out there, but this week the Bloody Minded crew is doing a Mean Girls and judging cells by their morphology. For now we’re deciding to ignore those that would argue that it’s what’s on the inside that counts (i.e. judging by NGS… that’ll come later). TIMESTAMPS 2:28 - For some reason, an audio podcast on visual dysplasia Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 85 - Wake Me Up! | Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia (APML) | 07 Apr 2026 | 00:50:17 | |
What do arsenic, acne tablets and Jodi Picoult have in common? Why, it must be a deep dive with Nick, Bashar and Cale on acute promyelocytic leukaemia. From buzzwords to brain bleeds, the sweetest of translocations to the cruellest of coagulopathies... The yield is almost as high as the survival rates. TIMESTAMPS 00:57 - Bloody Minded Poetry Jam & Jodi Picoult 41:04 - Treatment SEs Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 84 - Chemotherapeutic Boogaloo | AML Part 2 | 31 Mar 2026 | 00:58:14 | |
After our initial intro to AML back in ep 79, we are back to dig deeper into AML this week, from pathophysiology through to treatment overview. The boys are joined by final year registrar Dr Georgina Calov who is here to cut through our nonsense and deliver some actual high yield content. And thank goodness for that, otherwise it'd be an hour of us making bad April Fool's day jokes. Timestamps 2:09 - Introducing Dr Georgina Calov Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 83 - On The Wards: The NBM Transplant Patient | 24 Mar 2026 | 00:54:39 | |
Cat got your tongue? Or in this case - mucositis? Does converting the acute allogeneic transplant patient who can no longer eat's medications to IV fill you with dread? In this practical for once episode join consultant haematologist Dr Alison Chandler as well as haematology pharmacists Andriana Colic & Ariana McCauley as they take us through the how to of this challenging, but very common, clinical scenario. Timestamps 0:58 - Nick's literal nightmare Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 82 - MDS 102 | Much More on Myelodysplastic Syndrome | 17 Mar 2026 | 01:07:55 | |
Was episode 79 too light on MDS for you? “Amateurs” you said, adjusting your sellotaped glasses. If so, you’re in the right place today as we prepare to look at classification, risk stratification and treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome. You also should seek out psychiatric attention, or perhaps just go outside. But in the meantime, enjoy this episode where we’ll dig deeper into the nitty gritty of MDS! We’ve got a lot to cover so we float about between intermediate and advanced for this episode. TIMESTAMPS 1:11 - A Very Unhinged Intro Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 81 - In the Beginning... | Myeloid Precursor Conditions (CHIP, ICUS, CCUS) | 10 Mar 2026 | 00:38:41 | |
What if the prequel had a prequel? Join Bashar, Nick and Cale as they attempt to unpack the newfangled world of clonal haematopoeisis. Find out how CHIPs can kill and no, it’s not due to eating too many of them too fast. Though that might do it too. We’ve had one spectrum, but what about a second. We need to go deeper. TIMESTAMPS 0:56 - A classic chippy mixup Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 80 - GATTTACA | In The Lab: Introduction to Molecular Haematology | 03 Mar 2026 | 01:12:11 | |
If we’re going to truly understand myeloid disease, we must dispense with the ward and journey to the dystopian heart that beats at the centre of each dysplastic cell. Learn what is valid and in-valid as we swim across an ocean of concepts - past the basic principles of DNA and RNA, Polymerase Chain Reaction and its many many variants, Fragment Analysis and Next Generation Sequencing. Just save a little something for the swim back to clinic next week. PS The Extra T is for TYOTT Timestamps 0:55 - Back in the lab, baby! Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 79 - Ghosts in the Machine | Basics of MDS & A Brief Look at AML | 24 Feb 2026 | 00:54:16 | |
Happy marrows are all alike; every unhappy marrow is unhappy in its own way. When haematopoiesis behaves itself, it’s frankly quite boring. When it goes rogue, it can get very creative. Join Cale, Bash and Nick as they attempt to walk through how this process goes off the rails, how MDS and AML are best understood and how dysplasia, cytopenias, blasts and clones all fit together. TIMESTAMPS 0:55 - Our serious introduction to counterbalance last week Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 78 - All The Colours Of The Marrow | Overview of Myeloid Disorders | 17 Feb 2026 | 00:33:28 | |
What’s a CHIP and why is it so delicious? Why do we still abbreviate myeodysplastic neoplasm to MDS? How did Bashar get his hands on the Necronomicon? These are questions that every budding haematologist asks themselves at some point and we will answer at least some of them here! Join us today for a birds-eye overview of the myeloid family of disorders before we dig into them more over the coming weeks. TIMESTAMPS 0:57 - Does anyone know a good priest? Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 77 - The Factory Must Grow | Myelopoiesis | 10 Feb 2026 | 00:31:35 | |
Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it's off the myeloid factory we go. Grab your fastest belt, a spare inserter and all the iron plates you can get your hands on as the Bloody Minded Crew embark on their nerdiest references yet and learn all about the basic science behind myelopoiesis. You’d better hop on a train, because the only main bus here goes straight from the marrow out to the periphery carrying all sorts of myeloid cells. And some blue circuits. 0:52 - New year same us Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 76 - On the Wards: A Practical Guide to Anticoagulants | Part 2 (Oral Anticoagulants) | 27 Jan 2026 | 01:06:58 | |
So you’ve been asked to start a DOAC? How is that different from a NOAC? Is there a difference? Which one should you start? Is warfarin a WOAC? How do I initiate these drugs? Why is the dose weird at the beginning? Do I need to check my dose is appropriate? If oral anticoagulation has you discombobulated you are in the right place!! In part II on the practical management of anticoagulation we are here to clarify all your questions on the most common types of oral anticoagulation you will come across as a junior doctor on the wards. Timestamps Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 75 - On the Wards: A Practical Guide to Anticoagulants | Part 1 (Basic Injectables) | 20 Jan 2026 | 01:03:53 | |
Does my blood look fat in this? Does the idea of heparin being a fraction make you wish you listened harder in maths? What is unfractionated heparin? Why are haematologists so judgmental and prefer their anticoagulation low molecular weight? Why does haematology frown when you use the term “blood thinners” ?!?! If injectable or parenteral anticoagulation feels confusing you have come to the right place! Today we look at unfractionated heparin and low molecular weight heparin, practical things to think about and how to manage these drugs safely on the wards and beyond NB We’re going to leave the advanced injectables like Fonda/Danaparoid/Bivalirudin to a dedicated alternative, probably HITTS themed episode if you’re looking for these drugs Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 74 - Christmas Disease | A Bonus Beginners Bonanza on Haemophilia B | 23 Dec 2025 | 00:39:53 | |
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, particularly not a missing coagulation factor. Welcome to a very special present all wrapped and delivered by Santa and his Christmas elves and stuffed in your podcast queue in time to drive off for the holidays. Join Cale, a very dusty Bashar, Nick and Santa as we learn a little bit about Christmas Disease. We swear his jacket was that colour before we messed with his haemostatic pathways… CONTENT WARNING: Singing TIMESTAMPS 00:55 - Pure unbridled musical talent Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 73 - What A Headache | CVST and Antithrombin Deficiency with Dr Caroline Dix | 16 Dec 2025 | 00:42:00 | |
We’ve had one difficult coagulation topic yes, but what about second difficult coagulation topic? We are joined by the fantastic Dr Caroline Dix today to take us through not one but TWO challenging scenarios in thrombosis. First we’ll be revisiting Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis but this time with someone who knows what they are doing. After that we’ll cover anticoagulating people when some very fundamental parts of the system are broken - the management of antithrombin deficiency. This episode wraps up our journey through clots… for now. Timestamps: 2:08 - Introducing Dr Caroline Dix Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 72 - How low can you go? | Thrombosis & Thrombocytopenia with Dr Sara Ng | 09 Dec 2025 | 00:41:45 | |
Sometimes something comes along that puts a chill down the spine of every doctor. Any conversation that starts with "Oh hey do you remember that patient you saw...?". Mystery meat day in the cafeteria. Dealing with hospital executives. For these times in life you need a guide. Today we'll be covering one of those spine-chilling clinical scenarios with our very apt guide consultant haematologist Dr Sara Ng. Over forty minutes Sara will un-chill your spine with her practical approach to managing thrombosis when there just aren't that many platelets to go around, as well as talking about conditions where clots and thrombocytopenia are intimately linked. Timestamps: 2:11 - Introducing Dr Sara Ng Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 71 - Clotting For Good | In The Lab: Thrombophilia Testing II | 02 Dec 2025 | 00:30:53 | |
Come one come all to see the thinnest extended reference in the universe. Draped over not one but TWO episodes, the Bloody Minded Crew continue to make vaguely topical references to popular recent films. Look - we go outside and experience the full gamut of popular culture. Oh and we finish up our discussion of thrombophilia testing in the lab - looking this week at activated protein C resistance testing, molecular Factor V Leiden assessment and Prothrombin gene mutations. TIMESTAMPS 1:06 - Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 70 - The Wizard of Clots | In the Lab: Thrombophilia Testing I | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:37:31 | |
Lions and tigers and… thrombosis? Oh my! Join the Bloody Minded Crew on the yellow brick road to visit the emerald laboratory and see the wonderful wizard of clots - your friendly laboratory coagulation scientist! Put on your blood red ruby slippers and join us for this bumper lab episode as we learn about how exactly we test for Protein C, S and antithrombin deficiencies as well as lupus anticoagulants. By the end of it you’ll have a brain for coags, a heart full of of love for thrombosis and the courage to peer behind the laboratory curtain Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 69 - I Have No Brain And I Must Test | Thrombophilia Testing | 18 Nov 2025 | 00:40:45 | |
“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN AS A HAEM REG. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANO-ANGSTROM OF THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF CONSULT NOTES I HAVE WRITTEN IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR YOU ORDERING THROMBOPHILIA TESTING INAPPROPRIATELY.” Woah - Let’s calm down, that's a bit much. Cale and Bashar are exposed to Nick’s inner monologue as the Bloody Minded Crew learn about the what, when and when not of thrombophilia testing. TIMESTAMPS 0:52 - Nick gets stuck in an anger loop Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 68 - The Gut Brain Axis | CVST, CRVO, Splanchnic Thrombosis and Other Rare Clots | 11 Nov 2025 | 00:50:35 | |
We're nearly out of pipes to clean - Join us for the world's worst roadtrip we venture into the lesser known parts of human plumbing and tackle unusual site thromboembolism. From splanchnic clots, uterine and testicular thrombi it's clots as far as the eye can see (and those it can't like CRVO!) Timestamps: 0:58 - ROADTRIP Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 67 - Skin Deep | Superficial Thrombophlebitis | 04 Nov 2025 | 00:19:37 | |
It's said that beauty is skin deep but you know what else lurks just under your epithelium - CLOTS! Nick, Cale and Bashar head very slightly under our outer layer to the peripheral vasculature in this increasing tortured metaphor as we learn on our shortest episode to date about what to do when those not so deep vessels fill with thrombus. Timestamps 2:12 - Where are superficial veins? Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 66 - In The Lab: D-Lightful | The D-Dimer | 28 Oct 2025 | 00:37:04 | |
D-ismayed by D-readful D-ressing D-owns by your D-emonstrably D-eplorable registrar? . Join de Bloody Minded Crew for a Tour D-Force of D-Dimer D-rama as we D-issect and D-iscuss this most D-ifficult of D-iagnostic tests! Timestamps 2:14 - What is a D-Dimer and where does it come from? Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 65 - Take Your Breath Away | Pulmonary Embolism | 21 Oct 2025 | 00:46:22 | |
“Give me a 2cc bolus of clot stat Emma. No wait - not there!” But it was too late, and Em-Bolused the 2cc of clot straight to the lungs”. Join the Bloody Minded Crew as they get to the heart… no get to the lungs of the topic of Pulmonary Embolism. VanQuish the V/Q and CriTically aPprAise the CTPA with these acronyms that are just as bad as a cardiology trial and half as useful. Sadly the Top Gun soundtrack is copyrighted but nothing will stop you playing Berlin over the background of the intro (and we’d strongly suggest it). Timestamps 4:55 - Types of PEs Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 64 - Never Skip Leg Day | Lower and Upper Limb Venous Thromboembolism | 14 Oct 2025 | 00:47:36 | |
Calves, thighs, arms and more,
0:54 - Intro to Extremity Clots Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 63 - Virchow’s Revenge | Introduction to Venous Thromboembolism | 07 Oct 2025 | 00:41:03 | |
Rudolf the red nosed physician TIMESTAMPS 0:58 - Episode Intro Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 62 - The Man in the High (Lymph Node) Castle | Castleman Disease | 30 Sep 2025 | 00:39:51 | |
Philip K. Dick once wrote, “Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.” Waking up, that is, not to the alternative history universe where the Axis won WWII but rather, to a new bonus episode on Castleman disease! Join Cale, Bashar and Nick as we explore one of Haem’s most zebra diagnoses, and do whatever we can to put off Nick’s clot season for just a bit longer. TIMESTAMPS: 00:53 - Holiday to Bavaria Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 61 - On The Wards: BiTE Me and other T Cell Tasty Treats | 16 Sep 2025 | 00:53:12 | |
Have you stumbled onto the haematology ward only to discover patients on bizarrely named BiTE & CART therapy? Why are we giving patients CARTs? Do they come with a horse? Why does everyone freak out when these patients are febrile? Why is everyone so hung up about handwriting? What are these weird drugs? It's OK – we are here once more to demystify the acronyms – and help you know what we are giving, why we are giving it and how to manage complications of Bi-Specific and CAR-T therapy! TIMESTAMPS 3:48 - Intro to BiTEs Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 60 - Twenty Pages About Basophils | Approach to Basophilia | 02 Sep 2025 | 00:26:15 | |
Bamboozled by basophils bountiful booty of granules? Let’s begin brilliantly with a basophil based bonanza. Buckets and buckets of brazenly basophil related bonus banter. You beauty! But, beware the bawdy, boisterous boys babbling brobdignagian-ly about BASOPHILS. It sounds better if you read it in Hugo Weaving’s voice and it’s the 5th of November I swear. TIMESTAMPS 3:07 - What are basophils? Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 59 - A Bad (eosino-)Feeling | Approach to Eosinophilia | 26 Aug 2025 | 00:31:26 | |
The mighty eosinophil had triumphed. The last parasitic worm lay vanquished beneath his granule-studded pseudopodia. For years, he’d battled helminthic scourge, a hero in mucus armor. But now, with no foes left to smite, he grew restless. He turned his sharp gaze to pollen, peanuts, and pet dander. "Troublemakers," he muttered, unsheathing his cytotoxic arsenal. With righteous zeal, he charged into the sinuses and skin, sparking sneezes and wheals in his wake. “A threat is a threat,” he declared, as a baffled immunoregulatory system looked on. The worms were gone - but the war had only just begun. With more excerpts leaking from the Bloody Minded Cinematic Universe, it’s only a matter of time until our movie deal. TIMESTAMPS 2:48 - What are eosinophils? Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 58 - Not even my final form | Approach to Monocytes | 19 Aug 2025 | 00:24:33 | |
Put on your monocles and kimonos and hop on the monorail to our episode composed of monotonous monologues, monogamously dedicated to that most monolithic and sometimes monoclonal of mononucleated cells. We are monobviously talking about the monocyte. TIMESTAMPS 0:57 - Mono-Cyte! Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 57 - Running on Fumes | Approach to Pancytopenia | 12 Aug 2025 | 00:47:46 | |
Behold the field in which I grow my cells and see that it is barren. It’s out of the frying pan and into the aplastic fire with not a cell in sight. Join Nick, Cale and Bashar without two neutrophils to rub together as we talk about an approach to that most concerning of FBC features - pancytopenia. TIMESTAMPS 2:22 - Definition of pancytopenia Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||
| Episode 56 - Lymph and Let Die | Approach to Lymphocytosis | 05 Aug 2025 | 00:43:29 | |
Once again the Bloody Minded Crew have ventured out of the lab to find and trap another haematology registrar from the wards and convince them to come back to the show and talk about cells. Join haematology registrar Dr Lise Kempler as she teaches the team about what to do when that lymphocyte number just creeps up and up and up. TIMESTAMPS 2:34 - Aspiring to be a lymphocyte Check out show notes, additional references and (sometimes) extra content at www.bloodyminded.com.au | |||