White Coat, Black Art

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WCBA PODCAST 0928 My Big Fat Bias

Hospitals today are facing an epidemic of mordibly obese patients but with poor training and lack of proper equipment, many doctors would rather take care of almost anyone else.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:26:07]

Patient Engagement at Kingston General Hospital

Big changes are in the air and Kingston General Hospital is on the leading edge. Until recently, it had a less than stellar reputation with patients. It recruited those same unhappy patients to give them advice on how to do things better.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:27:30]

Racist Patients - Podcast

White Coat Black Art looks at one of medicine's most uncomfortable secrets: the patients who discriminate against the growing ranks of health professionals who belong to visible minorities and the system that lets those patients get away with it.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:31:39]

White Coat Black Art: Blowing the Whistle on Bad Medicine

Bradley Manning,Julian Assange,Edward Snowden - just a few of the high profile whistle blowers generating headlines in 2013 - which is shaping up as the Year of the Whistle Blower. In this episode we ask who is stepping up and speaking out in health care?

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[mp3 file: runs 00:31:42]

The Language of Cancer

A feature-length interview with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Dr. Mukherjee reveals why we frame the disease in the language of war.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:28:52]