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Q | Feb 28, 2013
Giorgi Gogia, from Human Rights Watch, on how a novel about a friendship between two Azerbaijani men and their Armenian neighbours made the author a target in his own country. Legendary Canadian comedian Martin Short on his life, career and unique role promoting Canadian talent. Writer Peter Frase on defending rude service.
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The Current | Feb 28, 2013
Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?
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Mainstreet NS | Mar 1, 2013
A team led by our oceans guy, Boris Worm, has found that about 100 million sharks die every year, and the biggest preventable culprit is fishing. He explains the significance of his finding.
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And the Winner Is | Feb 26, 2013
As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time World War Two broke out, he was also a conductor. But Georg Tintner was a conductor with Jewish roots. And so, after the Anschluss in 1938, he was fired. By 1942, Mr. Tintner made his way to New Zealand, and for the better part of the next forty-five years of his life, he served as a conductor across New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. But in 1987, he moved to Halifax, where he would leave his mark as the conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He died in Halifax on October 2, 1999.
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Tapestry | Feb 22, 2013
We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.
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Nov 24, 2012 | 19:34White Coat Black Art Sully Sullenberger - Full Interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Sully Sullenberger - Full Interview Nov 24, 2012 | 19:34In 2009 Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, safely guided US Airways Flight 1549 to an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York…saving everyone on board. Now he's bringing hard fought lessons from aviation safety to the world of medicine. Here's Brian's full conversation with Sully Sullenberger from this fall's Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival in California.
Nov 5, 2012 | 23:13White Coat Black Art Susan Robarts - full interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Susan Robarts - full interview Nov 5, 2012 | 23:13Advanced practice physiotherapist Susan Robarts explains her unique role at the Holland Centre in Toronto, where she helps patients find alternative to hip and knee surgery. It's cut down on unneeded surgery and shortened waiting lists.
Oct 29, 2012 | 13:17White Coat Black Art Steven Lewis - Extended Interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Steven Lewis - Extended Interview Oct 29, 2012 | 13:17Steven Lewis to break down how provinces decide what gets covered and In an extended interview, health policy expert Steven Lewis breaks down provinces decide what drugs get covered and why there are inequities from province to province.He tells us how politics and emotions can play a role in putting a price tag on a life.
Oct 1, 2012 | 17:01White Coat Black Art Dr. Lou Francescutti: the full interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Dr. Lou Francescutti: the full interview Oct 1, 2012 | 17:01Dr.Lou Francescutti is the president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association and the president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. We interviewed him in our recent show about unemployed doctors. He had a lot of provocative things to say about why some doctors can't find work, how the system is more about employment than making people well and how health care might look in the future. We thought many of you might want to hear the full interview he did with Brian.
Sep 14, 2012 | 34:26White Coat Black Art Nagui's Choice: the first interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Nagui's Choice: the first interview Sep 14, 2012 | 34:26Nagui Morcos first visited the White Coat, Black Art studio in 2011. This is the extended interview he did with Brian at that time, which formed the basis for the award-winning show "The Will to Die," which aired that April.
Sep 14, 2012 | 36:28White Coat Black Art Nagui's Choice: Nagui Marcos and Jan Crowley full interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Nagui's Choice: Nagui Marcos and Jan Crowley full interview Sep 14, 2012 | 36:28The second time Nagui Morcos came to the White Coat studio he brought his wife, Jan Crowley with him. She struggled with his decision to end his life, but supported him. This is the full version of the interview they did with Brian.
Sep 3, 2012 | 13:25White Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: extended interview, Dr. Jackie Duffin AudioWhite Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: extended interview, Dr. Jackie Duffin Sep 3, 2012 | 13:25Dr. Jackie Duffin is a medical historian, hematologist and cancer specialist at Queen's University in Kinsgton. Her own personal brush with a shortage of blood pressure pills led Jackie to set up a website that lists which drugs are currently in short supply and looks at the reasons for the shortage. Here is our extended interview with her.
Sep 3, 2012 | 9:35White Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: A mother's story AudioWhite Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: A mother's story Sep 3, 2012 | 9:35For Christine Sorensen, in Kamloops, B.C. the drug shortage has been a near disaster. Her 14-year-old son Derek has a rare form of epilepsy. His seizures can be controlled by one drug -- called Zarontin. Without it, he could die. As she told Brian, via skype, it's an older drug which is now impossible to find in Canada.
Sep 3, 2012 | 8:56White Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: Dr. Brian Warriner AudioWhite Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: Dr. Brian Warriner Sep 3, 2012 | 8:56Last March St. Paul's and Vancouver General Hospital made the decision to cancel some elective surgery due to the drug shortage. It turned out to be a false alarm. But as Dr. Brian Warriner -- head of the Department of Anesthesiology - told us, it was also a warning of what the future might hold.
Sep 3, 2012 | 6:24White Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: Mario Bedard AudioWhite Coat Black Art The Drug Shortage: Mario Bedard Sep 3, 2012 | 6:24Often, protecting patients from those risks is the job of the hospital pharmacist. That's no easy task. Right now, The Ottawa Hospital lists more than one hundred drugs in short supply. Brian asked Mario Bedard -- head of the hospital's pharmacy -- what he does when he's told a drug is in short supply.
Aug 21, 2012 | 6:55White Coat Black Art Drug shortage: Sneak peak of our first episode AudioWhite Coat Black Art Drug shortage: Sneak peak of our first episode Aug 21, 2012 | 6:55In advance of our first episode of the season, Brian talks to Paul Castle, host of the CBC afternoon show Shift in Saint John about the current drug shortages and what you'll hear on the first episode of White Coat, Black Art this season.
Dec 30, 2011 | 26:50White Coat Black Art Dr. Jeffrey Brenner: The hotspot guru - full interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Dr. Jeffrey Brenner: The hotspot guru - full interview Dec 30, 2011 | 26:50This week we told you about "hot spotting": using data to find out who is using the health care system the most, and then targeting care to those spots to help people get healthy, and bring costs to the system down. We looked at a Canadian hot spot in Saskatoon, but we also talked to the U.S. doctor who coined the phrase and who first mined the data. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner spoke to Brian about how he found the hotspots and the kind of disruptive change it takes to cool them down. Click here for our full interview with Dr. Jeffrey Brenner.
Dec 2, 2010 | 4:57White Coat Black Art Francoise Mathieu on Stressed Out Health Care Workers AudioWhite Coat Black Art Francoise Mathieu on Stressed Out Health Care Workers Dec 2, 2010 | 4:57Dr. Brian Goldman speaks with mental health counsellor Francoise Mathieu, who counsels health-care workers who are stressed out, over-worked and burned out.
Nov 17, 2010 | 3:45White Coat Black Art Rina Krans on Home Care AudioWhite Coat Black Art Rina Krans on Home Care Nov 17, 2010 | 3:45Rina Krans shares her experiences with "home care" after an operation for breast cancer.
Nov 4, 2010 | 52:34White Coat Black Art Residents Panel - Circling The Drain AudioWhite Coat Black Art Residents Panel - Circling The Drain Nov 4, 2010 | 52:34Doctors can find it difficult to make the turn from saving patients to helping them die well. Nobody knows that better than residents.
Here's the full interview with a remarkable group of residents at McMaster University who spoke to Brian about those moments...and some of the jarring shorthand doctors use to talk about the end of life.
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