Past Episodes
Tuesday December 20, 2011
Not the ER Mailbag
I've worked in the ER for nearly thirty years. There have been lots of efforts to shorten the wait. Still, it bugs many of you enough to be a major factor in your decision to go or not to go to the ER and - if you actually get there - your decision to stay. Last week on White Coat Black Art, we did a show about what we call 'ER-avoidance'. I visited Halifax to check out a pilot project that has paramedics helping frail seniors avoid a trip to the ER by making house calls to local nursing homes.
There are patients who avoid ER in the first place. Then again, there are patients who put the effort and time into going but leave the ER before the doctor sees them. Veteran ER physician and White Coat, Black art contributor Dr. Bruce Campana talked about patients who "leave without being seen". After that, we heard from you.
Categories: Blog Archives, Hospitals
Friday December 16, 2011
Not the ER Show
That we go to the ER expecting to wait a long time has become part of the culture of medicine. It's almost a cliché. I've worked in the ER for nearly thirty years. There have been lots of efforts to shorten the wait. Still, it bugs many of you enough to be a major factor in your decision to go or not to go to the ER and - if you actually get there - your decision to stay. And that's a problem if your health is on the line.
This week: a bit of what we call 'ER-avoidance'. I visit Halifax to check out a pilot project that has paramedics helping frail seniors avoid a trip to the ER by making house calls to local nursing homes. There are patients who avoid ER in the first place. Then again, there are patients who put the effort and time into going but leave the ER before the doctor sees them. Veteran ER physician and White Coat, Black art contributor Dr. Bruce Campana helps me get inside the heads of these ambivalent patients. And, we have reaction to Generation Rx, our town hall earlier this month about the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.
Click on the audio link below to listen now or download the podcast. And tune in Saturday December 17 at 11:30 am (noon NT) and again on Monday December 19 at 11:30 am (3:30 pm NT) on CBC Radio One.
Categories: Blog Archives, Hospitals, Past Episodes
Thursday December 15, 2011
Park Your Frustration: Update
On October 29, 2011, WCBA devoted an entire show to the trials and tribulations Canadians face with hospital parking. On our blog, we posted a lengthy letter sent by Pamela Leeb to Dr. Robert Bell, CEO of University Health Network. In it, she described receiving a $450 parking ticket when she parked her car across the street from Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, where she was undergoing cancer treatment. Leeb received some good news. Click below to read Ms. Leeb's letter and its impact.
Read more »Categories: Accountability, Blog Archives, Hospitals
- December 2011
- Tue., 20 – Not the ER Mailbag
- Fri., 16 – Not the ER Show
- Thu., 15 – Park Your Frustration: Update
- Wed., 14 – Unfinished Business Mailbag
- Tue., 13 – Rescue on Hospital Grounds
- November 2011
- Mon., 28 – Park Your Frustration: Even More
- Thu., 17 – Emergency Rooms Must Deliver Palliative Care
- Tue., 15 – Park Your Frustration Mailbag
- October 2011
- Fri., 28 – Park Your Frustration Show
- Wed., 19 – Can We Talk? Mailbag
- Fri., 14 – Can We Talk? Show
- Wed., 12 – Respect Mailbag
- Wed., 5 – Nelson Dream Team Mailbag
- September 2011
- Fri., 30 – Nelson Dream Team Show
- Fri., 16 – Nurse Bullying Show
- August 2011
- July 2011
- Tue., 12 – Beware of Small, Rural Hospitals
- June 2011
- Wed., 22 – Sleepy Residents Mailbag
- Thu., 9 – Mental Health Show Mailbag
- Tue., 7 – For Whom the Patient Call Bell Tolls
- Fri., 3 – Mental Health Show
- Wed., 1 – Diseases That Get No Respect Mailbag
- May 2011
- Wed., 18 – Nursing Home Violence Show Mailbag
- April 2011
- March 2011
- Tue., 29 – Taking Better Care of Seniors in the ER
- Mon., 21 – An ER For Seniors is Long Overdue
- Wed., 16 – Does Your Doctor Check Your Medical Tests?
- Fri., 4 – A Leaky Medical Gadget?
- Tue., 1 – Rrrrroll Up the Rrrrrim to Live?
- February 2011
- Thu., 17 – Listen to Me Mailbag
- Tue., 15 – Beware the Blood Test Not Checked
- Fri., 11 – Listen to Me show
- Mon., 7 – Reverse Medical Tourism?
- January 2011
- Fri., 28 – Corridors of Medicine show
- Thu., 27 – Hospital Fixer Mailbag
- Mon., 24 – Why I Respect Eastern Health's CEO
- 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
- December 2010
- Wed., 22 – Sick or Lonely? Both Go to the ER
- Fri., 17 – Knee-high Medicine show
- Fri., 3 – The Stress Show
- Thu., 2 – Sneak Peek: Public Health, Private Lives
- November 2010
- Fri., 26 – Time to Mention the Unmentionables
- Wed., 24 – Wednesday Mailbag
- Thu., 18 – Thursday Mailbag
- Fri., 12 – In Sickness and In Health
- Wed., 10 – Wednesday Mailbag
- Tue., 9 – Duty to Refuse Death-Delaying Treatment?
- Fri., 5 – Healthy Design
- 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
- Sat., 16 – 'To Err is Medicine' Townhall Episode
- Tue., 12 – Town Hall Tonight
- September 2010
- Fri., 17 – Hospitals Go Green on WCBA
- Tue., 7 – Euthanasia Debate Heats Up in Quebec
- August 2010
- July 2010
- Wed., 21 – Tasers in the ER? You've got to be Kidding!
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