In this episode, we chat with Dr Rachel Martin who is a Senior Registrar working in the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

We loved hearing about Rachel’s impressive career and her love of working in Intensive Care. Rachel also shared with us her harrowing experience in 2012 when her now-husband Curtis McGrath lost both his legs whilst serving as an engineer with the Australian Army in Afghanistan in 2012.
 
In the moments after the accident, incredibly both Rachel and Curtis were independently thinking about the para-olympic games and at the 2020 Tokyo Para-olympic Games, Curtis made history by becoming the first para-canoe athlete to win two gold medals in his chosen sport of canoeing/kayaking.
 
Rachel shared with us her own learnings and reflections from being a med student caring for her injured partner, how they juggle their professional careers and how Curtis once reacted to a curious kid on a plane asking him if he was a transformer after seeing his prosthesis.
 
Such a down to earth account of a huge life event that has now shaped Curtis and Rachel's future.