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Brooklyn trauma surgeon Dr. Simon Fitzgerald co-hosts Trauma Code with adult and child psychiatrist Dr. Cassandra Raphaël. Together they explore healing of mind body and community from trauma. The show also engages the intersection of trauma and culture. Show airs every Monday at 2 PM on WBAI 99.5 in New York City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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United States

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Brooklyn trauma surgeon Dr. Simon Fitzgerald co-hosts Trauma Code with adult and child psychiatrist Dr. Cassandra Raphaël. Together they explore healing of mind body and community from trauma. The show also engages the intersection of trauma and culture. Show airs every Monday at 2 PM on WBAI 99.5 in New York City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Honduras Election Updates with Jose Luis Granados Ceja

12/11/2025
We talk Honduras elction updates and context with Jose Luis Granado Ceja of Dropsite News. Show recorded Monday 12/8 and does not contain commentary about subsequent developments in La Paz or off the coast of Venezuela. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:27

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Against Athleticide with Nathan Kalman-Lamb

11/18/2025
We have Nathan Kalman-Lamb back on the show to discuss his article in the Journal of the Sociology of Sport on Athleticide in Gaza and talk about efforts to hold Israeli sporting institutions especially Isareli Football accountable for the national campaign of genocide against Palestinians. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:54:39

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Al Fashir with Ibrahim Alhaj

11/13/2025
We talk to Al Fashir native Ibrahim Alhaj about the history, culture and news from this Darfurian town under assault by the Rapid Support Forces, once known as Janjaweed. While listening to music from the region, we think about how to stop the genocide in Darfur and how to support the mutual aid Emergency Support Rooms that have sprouted out of the Resistance Committees that formed during the brief Sudanese Revolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:53:32

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Updates from Genocide Worldwide

10/30/2025
We talk to Suad Abdel Aziz from Decolonize Sudan about the genocide in Darfur, massacres in El Fashir and Algoney Dagalo in Washington DC. We also hear a Doctors Against Genocide Update from a medical worker refugee from Beit Lahia in Deir al Balah. Please note that Jose Manuel Tomas Arturo Chao Ortega (Manu Chau) is a Spanish-French musician whose entire family fled fascist violence in Span during the Franco era across the border to France. Dr. Fitzgerald forgot the details of this family history during the episode and regrets any historical inaccuracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:51:33

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Left Behind: Dyslexia in NYC public schools with Anna Toomey

10/21/2025
Anna Toomey joins Drs. Fitzgerald and Raphael in the WBAI studios to discuss her new movie Left Behind and the challenges students with dyslexia face in NYC public schools and how families are working together to overcome them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:53:46

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Amy Hagopian: Lifetime Achievement and Backlash at the APHA

10/14/2025
We talk to Professor Emeritus Amy Hagopian, until recently the chair of the international section of the American Public Health Association before her membership was revoked in response to organizing within the organizaiton in support of Palestinian health and safety. Music by Turnstile and Yenovk Der Hagopian. Read more here: https://academeblog.org/2025/10/07/what-to-do-when-your-professional-association-breaks-your-heart/ And sign on in support of Dr. Amy Hagopian https://forms.gle/zK4rMFqBiqsUaiDT6 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:53:23

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Impending Sense of Doom with Dr. Arghavan Salles

10/9/2025
Surgeon and research Dr. Arghavan Salles on the effect of government defunding and undermining science and scholarship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:54:48

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Doctors against Genocide Gaza Update: Forced Evacuation of Shifa Hospital

10/2/2025
We hear form Australian surgeon Dr. Nada Abu Alrub after her forced evacuation of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Doctors Against Genocide update from Trauma Code on WBAI 99.5 in Brooklyn, New York City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:57:10

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Doctors Against Genocide: From Darfur& El Fahsir to Goma.& Gaza

9/24/2025
We hear from Doctors Against Genocide including Zeinab Bakhiet, Hadija, and Dr. Muhammed on genocide from Palestine to the Sudan and the Congo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:50:56

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Athleticide and Genocide Denial

9/16/2025
Interview with Nathan Kalman-Lamb about Athleticide and Genocide Denial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:16

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Baltimore Beats with Eze Jackson

9/9/2025
We talk to Eze Jackson about the his Dark City, Beats not Bullets, the Baltimore Beat, the Real News and Beach House. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:02

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Defending Black Maternal Health with Dr. Jaime Slaugher-Acey

9/4/2025
We talk to Dr. Jaime Slaughter-Acey for Black Maternal Health Week about her LIFE 2 research which has been targetted for defunding by the Trump administration attacks on the NIH. This is a re-release of an interview from April, but the episode was removed by Spotify when the show was hosted on Creators. But we back up now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:29

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Dr. Mimi Syed and Medical Student Notes from a Genocide

8/29/2025
Dr. Mimi Syed calls the Trauma Code with news from medical students from Gaza as we hear news that two of Nasser Hospital's medical students learning surgery from Dr. Khaled Alser were killed in a double tap shelling of the hospital in Khan Younis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:47:03

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Doctors Against Genocide

8/20/2025
We talk to healthcare workers in Doctors Against Genocide about their recent stand in front of the UN. Music by Bad Bunny, Residente, and Robert Glasber. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:49:55

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Trauma Code Music Review

8/7/2025
We talk about T Pain & Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Lehrer, Ziad & Assi Al Rabhani & Fairuz. We also talk about the some of the best music out of Petionville in the 1980s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:10

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Health Policy Advice for Zohran Mamdani Campaign

7/29/2025
Dr. Duncan Maru and Dr. Simon Fitzgerald discuss possibilities for healthcare change in NYC in the wake of the Zohran Mamdani nomination for democratic party mayoral candidate for the city. Whats really possible for a new administration in our line of work for New York City Health and Hospitals, for FDNY and first responders, for employees of the city and others? What are some potential legislative policies that the mayor's office should support? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:54:11

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Gaza Famine: Emergency Call to Action

7/24/2025
We hear from Partners in Gaza about an Emergency call to end the genocidal violence and famine in Gaza. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:53:56

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The Shame of Israeli Medicine with Neve Gordon

6/4/2025
We talk to former president of Israeli Physicians for Human Rights about the recent piece in the New York Review. Also we hear from physicians in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis about the mass casualty shooting of civilians by the Israeli military at new aid corridors in Rafah. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:49:49

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End of Life Care with Dr. Francesca Decker

5/20/2025
We talk with Dr. Franccesca Decker about the difficult medical and personal issues in helping loved ones navigate death and dying. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:32

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Brooklyn Violence Interruption with Taisha Smith

5/1/2025
Taisha Smith of the Kings Against Violence Initiative joins us in the studio to talk about violence and healing in Brooklyn, New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:00:55:04