Past Episodes

Friday December 23, 2011

Inspiration Show

This week, let's put you and me in a holiday mood with stories around the general theme of inspiration -- what inspires people on my side of the gurney to do what we do and a bit about what inspires you. Med student and blogger Erin Sullivan talks about her medical hero: a remarkable physician who reached forward two generations to inspire Erin to become a healer herself.  I chat with a hero of mine:  a celebrated ER physician from Cape Breton who schools me on how to make better doctors by getting them to sing their way through med school.  And, we meet a second year medical student who battled a serious form of cancer by painting it. 

To listen to the show now, click on the button below or download the podcast.  Better still, join us Saturday, December 24 at 11:30 am (noon NT) and again on Monday December 26 at 11:30 am (3:30 pm NT) on CBC Radio One.

Inspiration Show (Pop-up)

A century ago, medical students studied liberal arts in addition to medical subjects like anatomy. But, with scientific and technological progress more and more courses like pharmacology and clinical medicine crowded out the medical school curriculum.

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Categories: Blog Archives, Health Professionals, Past Episodes

 

Thursday December 8, 2011

Generation Rx: Mailbag

Last week, we broadcast our full-edition town hall entitled "Generation Rx - The Use and Abuse of Prescription Pain Medication," recorded before a live audience at Brockville Collegiate Institute.  Brockville, a small city in Eastern Ontario, was the setting for Ontario's first inquest into prescription opioid-related deaths.  My guests were Christine Bois, manager of the Opiate Project with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Detective Staff Sergeant Shawn White, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch with the Cornwall Police, and Dr. Andrea Furlan, a chronic pain physician and scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.  Not suprisingly, we received many, many emails from you.  Click on the link below to jump to your reaction to show.  And tune in on Tuesday, December 27 from five to six pm (half an hour later in parts of Newfoundland and Labrador) for an extended one-hour version of the show.
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Categories: Accountability, Blog Archives, Health Professionals, Patient Safety, Town Hall

 

Tuesday December 6, 2011

Your Next MD Will Be a Woman

Women now make up more than half the workforce in medicine and other health related fields in Canada.  That's according to the latest research from StatsCan.  In the United Kingdom (U.K.), experts predict women doctors will outnumber men by the year 2017.  Last week, an editorial in the Student British Medical Journal asked whether it's a trend that's gone too far.  Not me.  I think we need to get past the obvious gender politics and ask how this phenomenal trend will shape health care in the years to come. Read more »

Categories: Blog Archives, Health Professionals

 

• December 2011
  • Fri., 23 – Inspiration Show
     
  • Thu., 8 – Generation Rx: Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 6 – Your Next MD Will Be a Woman
     
  • Fri., 2 – Generation Rx: The Use and Abuse of Prescription Pain Medication
     
• November 2011
  • Wed., 30 – Generation Rx - The Role of Doctors in Opioid Abuse
     
  • Tue., 29 – Generation Rx: Four Days to Go
     
  • Thu., 24 – Generation Rx: Some Quick Thoughts
     
  • Thu., 17 – Emergency Rooms Must Deliver Palliative Care
     
  • Fri., 11 – Unsung Heroes of Health Care Show
     
  • Thu., 10 – Marketing Medicine Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 9 – A Computer Teaches Doctors Some Empathy
     
  • Fri., 4 – Marketing Medicine Show
     
• October 2011
  • Wed., 26 – Breaking Up Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 19 – Can We Talk? Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 14 – Can We Talk? Show
     
  • Wed., 12 – Respect Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 7 – Respect Show
     
  • Wed., 5 – Nelson Dream Team Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 4 – Overdiagnosis = Overkill
     
• September 2011
  • Fri., 30 – Nelson Dream Team Show
     
  • Wed., 21 – Nurse Bullying Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 16 – Nurse Bullying Show
     
  • Wed., 14 – Personal Support Worker Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 9 – WCBA Season Debut: Personal Support Workers and Seniors
     
• August 2011
  • Tue., 30 – Pulling the Plug: Why Hospitals Aren't on the Same Page
     
  • Wed., 10 – Do Mental Health Patients Fall Through the Cracks?
     
  • Wed., 3 – Right to Die: This Time May Be Different
     
• July 2011
  • Tue., 26 – Before You Fire Your MD - Have a Chat
     
  • Mon., 11 – WCBA in the Summer: Boundaries Part Two
     
• June 2011
  • Thu., 30 – WCBA in the Summer: Boundaries Part One
     
  • Fri., 24 – The Perils of Involving MDs in Crime Prevention
     
  • Wed., 22 – Sleepy Residents Mailbag
     
  • Thu., 16 – Unifinished Business Show Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 15 – Update on Alleged Plagiarism by University of Alberta's Dean Baker
     
  • Wed., 15 – Getting Past Vaccine Skepticism
     
  • Mon., 13 – Medical Deans Who Plagiarize Should Resign
     
  • Thu., 9 – Mental Health Show Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 3 – Mental Health Show
     
• May 2011
  • Wed., 25 – To Err Is Medicine Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 18 – Nursing Home Violence Show Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 17 – The Black Art of Delivering Bad News to Patients
     
  • Wed., 11 – Mother's Milk Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 10 – "Is There a Doctor on Board?"
     
  • Fri., 6 – Mother's Milk Show
     
  • Wed., 4 – Healthy Skepticism Mailbag
     
  • Mon., 2 – Early Screening Test for Autism Shows Promise
     
• April 2011
  • Thu., 21 – Nurses and Physician Assistants: Make Nice and Get Along!
     
  • Fri., 15 – MS Zamboni: Here We Go Again
     
  • Thu., 14 – Overdiagnosed Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 13 – Beware of "Off-Label" Prescribing
     
  • Tue., 12 – Older Doctors: Update
     
  • Fri., 8 – Will to Die Part 2 + Overdiagnosed
     
  • Fri., 8 – Former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein Diagnosed with Dementia
     
  • Tue., 5 – Take Two Pills and Skype Me in the Morning
     
  • Mon., 4 – Will to Die Mailbag
     
• March 2011
  • Thu., 31 – Older Doctors Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 29 – Taking Better Care of Seniors in the ER
     
  • Fri., 18 – Older Doctors Show
     
  • Thu., 17 – Concierge Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 16 – Does Your Doctor Check Your Medical Tests?
     
  • Thu., 10 – Breaking Up Mailbag
     
  • Mon., 7 – Breaking Up: Reaction to Your Reaction
     
  • Fri., 4 – Breaking Up Show
     
  • Fri., 4 – A Leaky Medical Gadget?
     
• February 2011
  • Fri., 25 – Good Samaritan show
     
  • Fri., 18 – Wandering Show and a Personal Reflection
     
  • Thu., 17 – Listen to Me Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 15 – Beware the Blood Test Not Checked
     
  • Fri., 11 – Listen to Me show
     
  • Wed., 9 – No Appointment Show Mailbag
     
  • Mon., 7 – Reverse Medical Tourism?
     
  • Wed., 2 – Mailbag on Euthanasia (Corridor) Show
     
• January 2011
  • Mon., 31 – Shared Medical Visits Help People Lose Weight
     
  • Thu., 27 – Hospital Fixer Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 25 – Surgeons and Suicidal Thoughts: Behind the Mask
     
  • Fri., 21 – The Hospital Fixer Show
     
  • Wed., 19 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 18 – Surgeons Need Some Understanding
     
  • Thu., 13 – Thursday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 11 – Prepare for H3N2 Seasonal Flu!
     
  • Mon., 10 – Patient Privacy: More to Come
     
  • Fri., 7 – Patient Privacy show
     
  • Wed., 5 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
• December 2010
  • Fri., 17 – Knee-high Medicine show
     
  • Tue., 14 – More on Haiti
     
  • Mon., 13 – MS Zamboni Treatment: Dr. Goldman Interview
     
  • Fri., 10 – Lights and Sirens show
     
  • Thu., 9 – Sneek Peek: Our "Lights and Sirens" show
     
  • Wed., 8 – Public Health, Private Lives: Thank Yous
     
  • Wed., 8 – Public Health, Private Lives: Live Chat on December 8, 2010
     
  • Fri., 3 – The Stress Show
     
  • Thu., 2 – Thursday Mailbag
     
  • Thu., 2 – Sneak Peek: Public Health, Private Lives
     
• November 2010
  • Tue., 30 – Does 'Telemonitoring' of Patients Improve Care?
     
  • Fri., 26 – Time to Mention the Unmentionables
     
  • Thu., 25 – Sneak Peek of Our Unmentionables show
     
  • Wed., 24 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Mon., 22 – MS Zamboni Treatment: Where are We Now?
     
  • Fri., 19 – Home Care Episode
     
  • Thu., 18 – Thursday Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 17 – Sneak Peek of our Home Care Show
     
  • Tue., 16 – Can Doctors Impose Do Not Resuscitate Orders? They Can
     
  • Tue., 16 – MS Zamboni Treatment: new developments
     
  • Fri., 12 – In Sickness and In Health
     
  • Wed., 10 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 9 – Don't Label Patients Difficult
     
  • Tue., 9 – Duty to Refuse Death-Delaying Treatment?
     
  • Fri., 5 – Healthy Design
     
  • Fri., 5 – More From Our Residents' Panel on End-of-Life
     
  • Fri., 5 – Join Me Sat. November 6 at a Public Forum on Palliative Care
     
  • Thu., 4 – Hospice Care for Patients with Dementia
     
• October 2010
  • Fri., 29 – When Your Life is Circling The Drain Episode
     
  • Thu., 28 – Thursday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 26 – ER Wait: Shame on ERs!
     
  • Fri., 22 – Sex, Lies and Medical Mistakes Episode
     
  • Wed., 20 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Mon., 18 – More Excerpts from Our Townhall
     
  • Sat., 16 – 'To Err is Medicine' Townhall Episode
     
  • Thu., 14 – Sneak Preview of Our Medical Errors Town Hall
     
  • Sat., 9 – Pain: a Terrible and Misunderstood Affliction
     
  • Thu., 7 – To Err is Medicine? Anatomy of a Modern Problem
     
  • Wed., 6 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 1 – Social Medicine
     
• September 2010
  • Thu., 30 – Money, money everywhere?
     
  • Wed., 29 – Bonus Interview on Political Activism with Quebec College President
     
  • Wed., 29 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 24 – Put down the scalpel and raise a fist
     
  • Tue., 21 – My Book: 'The Night Shift - Real Life in the Heart of the ER'
     
  • Fri., 17 – Hospitals Go Green on WCBA
     
  • Wed., 15 – Telling Tales
     
  • Mon., 13 – Sneak Peek at WCBA's Next Show on Green Hospitals
     
  • Sat., 11 – WCBA Season Debut
     
  • Tue., 7 – Euthanasia Debate Heats Up in Quebec
     
• August 2010
  • Wed., 11 – Medical Errors: a list you don't want to ignore
     
  • Wed., 4 – Pharma-Sponsored Research: Good News Means Bias
     
• July 2010
  • Mon., 26 – MDs at the Root of Big Pharma's Influence
     
  • Thu., 22 – MDs and Patients as Facebook Friends? Think Twice