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Dec 21, 2012 | 21:25White Coat Black Art Shara and Ilana Yurkiewicz: Extended Interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Shara and Ilana Yurkiewicz: Extended Interview Dec 21, 2012 | 21:25Shara and Ilana Yurkiewicz are sisters and fellow med students at Harvard. And they have something else in common -- they both blog about medicine. Here's their extended interview with Brian.
Dec 21, 2012 | 17:02White Coat Black Art ZDoggMD Extended AudioWhite Coat Black Art ZDoggMD Extended Dec 21, 2012 | 17:02Here's Brian's extended interview with ZDoggMD. By day, Dr. Zubin Dimania is an internist in Las Vegas. By night ZDoggMD produces hilarious videos that lampoon modern medicine.
Dec 14, 2012 | 14:39White Coat Black Art Full Interivew: Steve Daniel AudioWhite Coat Black Art Full Interivew: Steve Daniel Dec 14, 2012 | 14:39Steve Daniel is a second-year med student at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. But before that, he did four tours of duty in Bosnia, Croatia and Afghanistan with the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2005, the former parachute instructor had a free-fall accident while conducting a course and was paralyzed instantly. Three years later, he competed at the Beijing Paralympics in arms-only rowing. And it was there he met a fellow athlete who inspired him to pursue medicine. Brian talks to him about navigating the world of medicine from a wheelchair.
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.
Nov 2, 2012 | 38:54White Coat Black Art Holly Bridges - Extended Interview AudioWhite Coat Black Art Holly Bridges - Extended Interview Nov 2, 2012 | 38:54A hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery performed on women. Studies show as many as eighty percent of them are unnecessary. Holly Bridges wants to change that. Her new book 'The UNHysterectomy' advises women on other options that she learned about the hard way. Here's her full conversation with Brian.
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.
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