🎤 INTERVIEW - Matt Preston and his AMAZING new documentary!

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My hard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the Free I had Hey good aftern It
is will and what he Matt Preston.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is on the show. Welcome back mate.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Woodrow William. How nice to hear your boice this.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
And we'll put this in context very shortly, but I'm
looking at a photo of you in scrubs, and I
mean woods, We're just saying he's looks good in lots
of things, Matt Preston.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
But my, those forearms beautiful.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
I'm going to say, better forearms than Ricky Ponting, which
is a hard thing to pull off.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm going to say right now that that is. That
is AI, that is It's fantastic. I was particularly keen
that I didn't have to wear blue scrubs to do
the hospital, but I got what's called the port wines,
because I feel me in ports that kind of where
is mine to be together.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're in a yeah, you're in like an aubergine or
a Crimson scrub.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I didn't know they did them in that do they do?
They do a cravat in the scrubs as well.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
For you that what the cravat you just used for
the to bind your hair up when you go into
the operating bit very stylish.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
So mad, do you want to tell us? Why are
you in scrubs? Mate? Tell us a bit about this This.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Three three part documentary series it was on a while
back that they did on SBS, and it's basically, you
take three people who've had kind of connections with the
hospitals system, others who themselves a family, placed into Saint
Vincent's public Hospital in a number of different departments. You
just get to learn what it takes to save a life,

(01:36):
what it's really like to work on the front line.
My brother died of epilepsy a long time ago, forty
years ago. He was in his early twenties, and I
want to see whether we've got better at stopping those deaths.
The answer, of course is sadly we haven't. It still
is one hundred and seventy people to some unexplained death
in epilepsy, but we have got much better at solving
some of those other challenges that come. And then on

(01:59):
the kind of the bigger picture. I get to work
in the geriatric wards of Saint Vincent's, which is truly brutal.
I've never been a workplace where people work harder and
do a broader range of tasks from the most menial
changing dressings and wiping bombs. So suddenly the next moment
they're rushing to get the right the right kit to
bring someone back to life.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Your mum has also been diagnosed with dementia, So yeah, if.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
You look, I mean, I mean the dementia piece is
interesting because obviously as we've got the aging population had
those two things. One, it's the geriatric wards are full.
You also got the situation that we're getting older, we
have more more examples of dementia, and it's really important
to know about it and to be prepared for what
could come down the pipe for you.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, all four of my grandparents have had dementia. Three
are no longer with us, one of them still with us.
But we didn't expect as a family. The mood changes
because it changes the personality. But then also it was
almost it was the anger around thinking that what you
were saying was incorrect because they had forgotten an interaction
and from the episode it must be so frustrating.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, and for the that's terrible for them. And sudden
moments of lucidity when when they go when they realize
where they are and have they've changed.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
So Ruby Rose is doing the show as well, and
you land a dock Itch or all three of you
stepping onto the front line of to Australisers public hospitals
to discover what it really takes to save a life.
And I think it's a solid dose of perspective for
anyone that's been in a hospital. Is kind of it's
kind of a place you kind of want to get
out of really quickly, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
You're actually right. One of the bits of research is
you're more likely if you're old, you're more likely to
have a fall in hospital than you are at home.
So we look at this idea, can you provide care
at home? You know, there were these unbelievable people who
kind of smicate their lives, yes, to make him feel
a bit better.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
People there.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
When I was my school holidays was spent because my
dad's a physician. My school holidays was spent at nursing stations.
And I remember whenever I used to talk whenever I
walk into a hospital, Everyone's always like, I hate hospitals.
I hate hospitals, and I'm always like, well.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I actually quite like them.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Because I just have such fond memories of hanging out
with like fifteen women who used to look after me
and like.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Go and get me lunch at the cafeteria, and like
great cheap holiday for your dad.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was He's like, I can't get out of I
can't get out of ward rounds. None was working full time.
I've got to bring you guys with me. So I
have a very different interpretation of them. But I really
wanted to say that to highlight the point that you
were saying, Matt, in terms of the individuals that are there,
You're often so scared of being in hospital, you often
treat people badly because you don't want to be there.
But they're they're they're they're people.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
We're slowly getting better at recognizing that and supporting those people.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
We just had a baby in the public hospital with
the best service.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
We had a Cesarean all for free.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Like it is insane, that's that's wild. I was talking
to some friends abouts from America and they were like,
that would have cost us thirty thousand dollars. So it's
great that you're shining a lot on that.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, Yeah, I think I think it's one one of
the interests.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Be very proud of the hospital in the DPN premiers
the fifth of March on the SPS and on SBS
on de Man if you want to see Matt Preson
in hospital.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Final question for me, Matt, did you ever leave the
scrubs on to go and get a coffee just to
get a bit more respect from people out of there?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I lived in tread of being that person on the
tram and someone has a heart attack and they look
to you.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I'm doing a TV show. I'm not revision.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Unless he's lunch needs seasoning, I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's great to your boys as always, always wonderful to have.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
You on Bill Audio.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Looks like a tremendous show mate, fantastic.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Thank you so much for your time, Love me boys.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Thanks Mad