Transcript for the Piece Audio version of RN Documentary: A Conversation with Fiona Wood

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You?re tuned to Radio Netherlands World Wide, I?m Dheera Sujan and in this edition of Vox Humana my special guest is Australian burns surgeon Fiona Wood. An extraordinary woman with seemingly unlimited energy, resources and determination who makes light of her meteoric rise from Yorkshire coal miners daughter to the only female plastic surgeon in Western Australia, Head of the Royal Perth Hospital?s Burns Unit. She?s also Clinical Professor with the School of Paediatrics at the University of WA, Director of the McComb Research Foundation and co founder of Clinical Cell Culture, a company recognized for its world leading research in the treatment of burns. If that isn?t enough to give the rest of us a complex, perhaps I should add here that before she starts rounds at 7am she?s usually done a 30 km bike ride sometimes accompanied by one or more of her six children.
Oh and she was also named Australian of the Year in 2005.
I met up with Dr Wood whose vigour and good humor wasn?t in the least bit dented despite the fact that she?d just emerged from a 20 hour flight from Australia and had already given the key note address to a large audience in the Hague.
And I wanted to know first off why she was so attracted to surgery, to burns in particular.

Fiona 1 4?29
Well really starts back on my first day of anatomy.. ..as well as cosmetic

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Fiona Wood became a surgeon in a time and a place when it was hard enough for a woman to become a doctor let alone a surgeon.
But not only did she not let this fact stop her, she also refused to do what many high achieving women choose to do ? sacrifice a family life for their professional ambitions.

Fiona 2 7?25
I guess I?ve always been greedy ..sent me off to university

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You?re tuned to Radio Netherlands and Dr Fiona Wood is my guest in Vox Humana.
Fiona Wood met her Australian husband in England ? the condition attached to his marriage proposal was that they would both come to live in Western Australia. So it was that years later she was working as a surgeon at Royal Perth hospital when the news came in that 3 bombs had gone off in Bali, killing and wounding hundreds of people, many of them Australians.
When the most serious burns victims were flown into Royal Perth Hospital, Fiona Wood and her team worked round the clock for days. It was the event that propelled Dr Wood into the media spotlight.

Fiona 3 10?56
It certainly did impact on my life?it is counterproductive

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Fiona Wood is also known in her field of burns because of the research she has conducted with Marie Stoner that led to their joint foundation of a company which has discovered a new burns technology that gained world attention.

Fiona 4 6?17
In 1990 I was a registrar and heard they were growing sheet skin?..my kids to live in

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The inspiring Dr Fiona Wood, burns surgeon from Western Australia was my special guest in Vox Humana today ? I?m Dheera Sujan and this programme has been a presentation of Radio Netherlands World Wide.

INTRO
I?m Dheera Sujan and in Vox Humana this week I?ll be talking to the extraordinary Dr Fiona Wood. The only female plastic surgeon in Western Australia, she was head of a team that treated some of the most serious burns victims from the 2002 Bali bombings ? the event that propelled her into the media spotlight. Dr Wood who is also a mother of 6 was named Australian of the Year in 2005.

PROMO
The inspiring Dr Wood, leading burns specialist, mother of 6, enthusiastic sports woman and the only female plastic surgeon in Western Australia is the special guest on Vox Humana this week. I?m Dheera Sujan and I?ll be talking to Dr Wood about her holy grail ? scarless healing and among other things - how she managed to keep breastfeeding for 12 years while she was a surgeon, teacher and scientist. Join me on Vox Humana this week for a glimpse into the bundle of energy, good humour and determination that is Dr Fiona Wood.