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- 427 - Newfoundland and Labrador goes all in on virtual caren
Newfoundland and Labrador leaders are ramping up virtual care for the thousands of residents without a family doctor. They’ve turned to private company Teladoc Health Canada to not only have doctors see patients virtually but also fill in on remote and rural ERs, for the next two years. But medical associations say it comes at the expense of recruiting and retaining healthcare workers long-term, and patients aren’t getting the care they need.
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 - 26min - 426 - Preventing the next Belleville
A restaurant in Muskoka, Ontario is doing its best to respond if necessary, after the slate of poisonings with a more dangerous form of fentanyl in Belleville. A manager and employee have taken training to accompany their new naloxone kit. But the deputy chief paramedic says the best hope to save people may be to teach bystanders to do CPR and rescue breathing and not flee the scene.
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 26min - 425 - ENCORE: Hospital at Home program delivers acute care at homeThu, 28 Mar 2024 - 26min
- 424 - The rapper battling Stage 4 colon cancerFri, 22 Mar 2024 - 26min
- 423 - Manicures by med students
The burden of loneliness on seniors is real and well-documented. That’s why med students at McMaster University in Ontario are visiting a seniors’ home one Saturday a month… not with clipboards, but with emery boards. With manicures comes conversation – helping seniors feel less isolated, and helping med students “polish up” on their soft skills.
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 26min - 422 - Navigating the cancer maze
Receiving a cancer diagnosis and trying to weave through the health-care system can be confusing and frustrating. That’s where cancer patient navigators come in. They’re the person who takes your calls and listens when it seems like no one else will, and they’re the nurse who wants the best for their patients. They're not available to everyone in Canada — but both navigators and their patients think they should be.
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 - 26min - 421 - Nursing as occupational hazard
Manitoba nurse Jennifer Noone was assaulted outside her hospital’s staff entrance, leaving her with a concussion and PTSD. She took the unusual step of having her assailant charged with assault. Now, she’s advocating for better protection against violence in hospitals, which nurses' unions say is on the rise.
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 26min - 420 - Fighting to provide gender-affirming care
Dr. Kate Greenaway is devoted to providing gender-affirming care to the trans and nonbinary folks who desperately need it. But with ever-increasing wait times and a lack of funding, she’s done something she never thought she’d do: go private. And as this care falls increasingly under threat in Canada, Kit Sparrow explains how Dr. Greenaway’s clinic saved his life – even though he feels he should have never had to pay for it.
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 26min - 419 - ENCORE: The secret to success at community health centresFri, 16 Feb 2024 - 26min
- 418 - The toll of cannabis-induced psychosis
When Kalpit Sharma started smoking high-THC weed several times a day, he thought he was just “living his life” as a university student. But then, he started hearing voices. Researcher Dr. Daniel Myran shares the science behind stories like Kalpit’s – and why young men are particularly at risk for concerning mental health outcomes.
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 26min - 417 - Women take on the fight for earlier breast cancer screeningFri, 02 Feb 2024 - 26min
- 416 - The high cost of sick notes
Patients don't like waiting in a clinic or ER to get them, doctors hate writing them, and yet, some employers continue to demand sick notes for a minor illness like the flu or a cold. Now, some doctors and other health-care providers are pushing back. They say sick notes tie up an already overloaded system, arguing that more paid sick days are needed instead.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 26min - 415 - The fight for faster eating disorder treatment
Twenty years after her daughter died, Winnipegger Elaine Stevenson is still fighting to get people better and faster treatment for eating disorders. Roughly a million Canadians have been diagnosed with an eating disorder, and as many as 15 percent will die because of it. Despite that, wait lists for treatment in Canada can be over a year, and it's not offered in every province.
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 26min - 414 - What this woman wants you to know about power of attorney
When Mary Jarratt's brother, Billy, had a debilitating stroke at 58, she was thrown into the role of Power of Attorney. She had to make tough decisions about his care, the care of his teenaged son and whether to sell the family home. She wants people to know what they’re getting into when they sign up to be a POA.
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 26min - 413 - An Organ Donation Leads To An Unlikely Friendship
Tara de Pratto donated part of her liver to a stranger, saving her life. The recipient was Farah Ali, and she and her family will never forget that act of kindness. In this second episode on living donors, we hear how Tara responded to a unique callout for a donor on social media, thanks to one woman’s passion for connecting donors with people in need. And how it led to a powerful bond between people whose paths might never have otherwise crossed.
Fri, 05 Jan 2024 - 26min - 412 - ENCORE: The Sherbrooke Model of Long-term Care
Sherbrooke Community Centre’s intergenerational program, iGen, is unique in Canada. The long-term-care home in Saskatoon doubles as a Grade Six classroom and is helping both kids and seniors.
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 - 26min - 411 - The Gift of Life
In this season of bearing gifts, it’s been said the highest form of giving is the anonymous kind. Heather Badenoch knows that very well. She donated part of her liver to a child she never met in Toronto. Now she uses her communications skills to recruit donors for people in need of an organ. In two weeks, we’ll have the story of one of the families she has helped.
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 - 26min - 410 - Virtual Cancer Screening Service
B.C. family physician Dr. Stuart Bax co-founded the virtual cancer screening service CanScreenBC.com to get people checked as early as possible so they don't end up getting a cancer diagnosis too late.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 26min - 409 - Dismantling Alberta Health Care
The Alberta government is about to change health care like never before. It’s taking what’s been administered exclusively by Alberta Health Services and breaking it up into four independent parts: acute care, primary care, continuing care and mental health and addiction. Doctors and nurses, patients and experts are worried what this new healthcare system could look like for patient care. One health economist calls it a "train wreck."
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 26min - 408 - Library on the Frontlines
You wouldn’t expect to find an overdose response and prevention team at a library. But Edmonton’s flagship library is going next level to take care of some of its most vulnerable citizens. They also have a team of social workers and other programs because their community needs are growing.
Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 26min - 407 - A Canadian doctor in Afghanistan
Dr. Maureen Mayhew didn't always want to practice medicine in Afghanistan. When Doctors Without Borders offered her a nine-month contract to work there in 2000, Mayhew initially turned it down, only accepting after careful consideration. That began an almost decade-long connection with the country, which Mayhew captures in her book, Hand on My Heart: A Canadian Doctor's Awakening in Afghanistan. Though her work there was challenging, it changed both her outlook on medicine and her relationship with herself.
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 - 26min - 406 - ENCORE: A brain cancer patient went to Germany for treatment to extend her life
30-year-old Aisha Uduman was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer and told her life expectancy was less than a year. But she and her family wanted more than the treatment plan her doctors could provide, so they sought out promising alternative treatments.
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 26min - 405 - Ozempic: The good, the bad and the future
To some, Ozempic and drugs like it are a weight loss silver bullet. But to others, they’re hyped medications with severe side effects. Dr. Daniel Drucker is a Canadian physician-scientist whose research helped pave the way for Ozempic. He wants more research, especially as ever more effective weight loss drugs are developed. But with the potential to also reduce major cardiovascular events, he’s hopeful we’re in a new era of medical therapy to treat obesity.
Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 26min - 404 - Former NHLer Trent McCleary on the night Dr. David Mulder saved his life
In this bonus podcast interview, Trent McCleary gives his perspective on the night when he came perilously close to dying on the ice. It may have been his most dramatic encounter with longtime Montreal Canadiens physician David Mulder, but it’s not the only one.
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 - 14min - 403 - The Habs’ team doctor is a true hockey hero
As the Canadiens' physician since before the days of helmets and face guards, esteemed trauma surgeon Dr. David Mulder has not only witnessed hockey history unfold – he’s been part of it. And after a remarkable 60-year career, he’s retiring. Dr. Brian Goldman sits down with Dr. Mulder to hear about some of his greatest plays – from saving Trent McCleary’s life to discovering Saku Koivu’s cancer.
Fri, 03 Nov 2023 - 29min - 402 - The early bird catches the derm
Wait times for dermatology appointments have patients lining up before dawn at a unique rapid-access clinic. Their conditions range from severe rashes to hair loss to potentially cancerous moles. Dermatologists say they’re taking on more referrals, many are nearing retirement, and there aren’t enough new graduates.
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 - 26min - 401 - Aging out of pediatric care
For Jacob Trossman’s whole life, his mother Marcy White has had to fight for his medical care. Jacob has an ultra-rare degenerative disorder called PMD, and at 12 years old, he became a patient in the Complex Care Program at SickKids in Toronto. But now, at 21, Jacob has aged out. SickKids says their services can be adequately replaced by specialists in the adult care system. But Marcy White is fighting harder than ever to keep Jacob with his pediatric team.
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 - 26min - 400 - The hotel that's now a hospital
Hamilton’s hospitals are trying out a novel solution to deal with its overcrowded hospitals: they’ve turned a former hotel into a “satellite health facility” for patients who no longer need acute care, but are too unwell to go home (like those waiting for home support or long-term care). Dr. Brian Goldman heads to the former Hamilton Crowne Plaza to “check out” its new life as an overflow hospital.
Fri, 13 Oct 2023 - 26min - 399 - ENCORE: Prairie Harm Reduction
A safe consumption site in Saskatoon is making a huge difference in the lives of people hard hit by substance use. Saskatchewan has had more than 1,200 overdose deaths since 2020. It also has the highest rate of HIV in Canada. Nonetheless, Prairie Harm Reduction has been operating the safe consumption site for three years, without provincial funding.
Thu, 05 Oct 2023 - 26min - 398 - Nova Scotia leans in to virtual health care
Nova Scotia is pursuing a radical solution to help with the primary care crisis: Virtual Care Nova Scotia. The province was the first in Canada to offer free virtual doctor visits to every resident without a family doctor. Dr. Brian Goldman visits the picturesque community of Martins Brook to meet some of the patients, nurses and doctors leading the charge for virtual care. Though it’s not a cure-all, they say it’s helping fill the gap in primary care.
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 - 26min - 397 - Taking on the anti-science movement
Pediatrician and vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez warns the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a dangerous anti-science force. In The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning, Hotez says failing to act now will threaten governments’ ability to fight serious infectious diseases.
Fri, 22 Sep 2023 - 26min - 396 - Filipino Nurses Part 2: Implications for Canada & Philippines
Provinces are Increasingly turning to the Philippines to recruit nurses as fast as they can to help with a critical shortage of front-line nurses in Canada. But it’s a short-term fix with serious implications for both Canada and the Philippines.
Thu, 14 Sep 2023 - 26min - 395 - Filipino Nurses Part 1: The Recruitment Pipeline
Canada’s nursing shortage is so dire that provinces are stepping up efforts to recruit nurses from the Philippines. And that recruitment process is a well-oiled machine. From the Philippines government, to recruiters, to nursing schools, the message to nurses is clear: better opportunities only exist abroad.
Fri, 08 Sep 2023 - 26min - 394 - ENCORE: A more effective way of dealing with people in crisis
A ride-along with TAIBU, a mobile crisis response team in Scarborough, Ontario that provides a non-police response to urgent mental health crises in the community.
Fri, 01 Sep 2023 - 26min - 393 - ENCORE: The trouble with IUDs: Part 2
After hearing from dozens of women about their experience with IUD pain, we find out how some gynecologists like Dr. Fiona Mattatall are making the experience of getting an IUD more comfortable, though there’s no standardized pain control method proven to work for everyone.
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 - 26min - 392 - ENCORE: Shauna Saves Lives
Shauna Pinkerton is waging a one-person campaign to save lives by passing out fentanyl testing strips, naloxone kits and safe drug paraphernalia. The people she is trying to save aren’t her clients. They’re her friends and sometimes her family.
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 - 26min - 391 - Novel Cancer Treatments
30-year-old Aisha Uduman was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer and told her life expectancy was less than a year. But she and her family wanted more than the treatment plan her doctors provided, so they headed to Germany to try promising alternative treatments.
Fri, 11 Aug 2023 - 26min - 390 - ENCORE: Menopause Movement: Part 1
Women who have had troubling health experiences say perimenopause and menopause should be recognized and treated faster because it would reduce needless suffering. Four women share their stories and offer ideas about what should change in the health-care system to improve the experience for others.
Fri, 04 Aug 2023 - 26min - 389 - ENCORE: Sonali's Search
On his 45th wedding anniversary, Ramesh Karnick was at home with his wife when he appeared to lose consciousness. He was in a coma for five weeks before he passed away. His daughter, Sonali has spent years trying to answer the question: how did her father die?
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 - 26min - 388 - ENCORE: Coerced Sterilization
Author and activist Morningstar Mercredi is calling for coerced and forced sterilizations to be criminalized so that other women, especially Indigenous, Métis and Inuit women, won’t suffer the physical and mental trauma that she did.
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 - 26min - 387 - Emergency rooms in crisisFri, 14 Jul 2023 - 26min
- 386 - ENCORE: First Responder Psychedelics
Ketamine helped one police officer get through a childhood trauma. Some experts say psychedelics could help people with PTSD but much more research is needed.
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 - 26min - 385 - ENCORE: Walk-in Clinic Pressure
Saskatchewan has lost so many of its family doctors in the last year that 200,000 "orphaned" patients are relying on walk-in clinics to get medical attention. Legends Medical Clinic in Warman is in the middle of the crisis, trying to meet the needs of all who seek their walk-in services but patients often wait for hours to see a doctor.
Thu, 29 Jun 2023 - 26min - 384 - Grief is child's play
Nine-year-old Zach Bulger is wise beyond his years. He lost his older brother to cancer. He expresses his grief through play therapy and provides guidance for grown-ups on how to recover from loss.
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 - 27min - 383 - Preventing ovarian cancer
Some doctors believe a minor gynecological procedure called an opportunistic salpingectomy can reduce dramatically the risk of ovarian cancer.
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 - 26min - 382 - Hair Loss Part II: Cold Capping
Some cancer patients are willing to go to great lengths to keep their hair through chemotherapy. But few hospitals offer cold capping: a system that cools the scalp to constrict the blood vessels to potentially reduce hair loss. A growing chorus of patients and doctors say more hospitals should offer it.
Fri, 09 Jun 2023 - 26min - 381 - Hair Loss Part I: The trouble with wigs
Cairo Gregory was just 15 when she got ovarian cancer. Chemotherapy meant she lost her long curly hair, just when she started to love it. She struggled to find a suitable wig through the hospital and says the healthcare system must do more to help women deal with hair loss, especially young Black women like her.
Fri, 02 Jun 2023 - 26min - 380 - Brain surgeon Henry Marsh reflects on getting cancer
Famed British neurosurgeon and author Dr. Henry Marsh thought he was well-versed in human illness. That is until he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and was forced to see things from the patient’s point of view.
Fri, 26 May 2023 - 26min - 379 - ENCORE: Sports Betting Addiction
Now that single-event sports betting is taking off in Canada, ads and incentives are encouraging people to make a wager. But a recovering gambling addict and a gambling counsellor worry it’s easier than ever to get dangerously hooked. And they want way more done to limit advertising and to support treatment.
Thu, 18 May 2023 - 26min - 378 - The secret to success at Community Health Centres
People with complex medical needs are accepted at Centretown Community Health Centre in Ottawa, and thriving because of it. Patients at about 120 CHCs across Canada are more likely to get cancer screenings and avoid costly trips to emergency. Teamwork by nurses, dietitians and others means the family physicians aren't saddled with paperwork that can lead to burn out.
Fri, 12 May 2023 - 26min - 377 - White Coat Black Art Introduces: Let’s Not Be Kidding with Gavin Crawford
If laughter really was the best medicine, Gavin Crawford would have cured his mother of Alzheimer’s disease. As a son, his mother’s dementia has been devastating. As a comedian though…it’s been sort of funny. Honestly, how do you respond when your mom confuses you with her teenage crush and wants you to take her to the high-school dance? Well, you laugh. Because it’s the only thing you can do. In this seven-part series, Gavin tells the story of losing his mother — his best friend and the inspiration for a lot of his comedy — to a disease that can be as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. He’s joined by comedian friends who share their experience caring for family members with dementia. The result is a cross between an improv act and a support group. Part memoir, part stand-up, part meditation on grief and loss, Let’s Not Be Kidding is a dose of the very best medicine for anyone dealing with hard times. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/dvxFtqRY
Mon, 08 May 2023 - 35min - 376 - Caregiver burden and relief
Esther Schreiber married her sweetheart Eddi and enjoyed a busy life until he was diagnosed with young onset dementia a decade ago. Eddi, 68, is now almost completely non verbal. As he slowly lost his caring personality, Esther’s caregiving demands became all consuming. Now, the trailblazer draws inspiration and emotional support from other spouses.
Fri, 05 May 2023 - 26min - 375 - Helping the caregiver recover
Janet Nisbet was primary caregiver to her husband Richard. Since his death, Janet has experienced the gamut of complex feelings that family caregivers sometimes experience following the death of a loved one.
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 - 26min - 374 - Previvors: Part 2
Part two of our series on cancer previvors - the growing number of people who through genetic testing live knowing it’s highly probable that one day they’ll get cancer.
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 - 26min - 373 - Previvors: Part 1
The stories of two women who are cancer previvors. Both Jordyn and Anne had family members with breast cancer. Both got genetic testing and found out they too carried genes that gave them very high odds of getting cancer too. Both of these women decided to deal with the risk preemptively by having surgery.
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 - 26min
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