Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Listeners described bereavement policies ranging from two or three days to bosses offering unlimited paid time, exposing how rules often fail families defined by care rather than blood.

Financial adviser Gio Boeta said wealth-building starts with believing opportunities exist, knowing your strengths, spending less than you earn, investing in yourself and avoiding get-rich-quick schemes.

Anaesthesiologist Dr Howard Radford explained that general anaesthesia combines separate medicines for unconsciousness, pain control and stillness because one drug cannot safely do everything.

Modern anaesthesia is considerably safer for healthy patients: the estimated risk of death fell from one in 10,000 in 1982 to one in 200,000.

Radford said anaesthetists should personally assess patients before surgery; nurses’ observations help, but the anaesthetist must identify risks and plan the anaesthetic.