Past Episodes
Friday December 16, 2011
Concussions and NHL Hockey: Past the Tipping Point
Categories: Accountability, Blog Archives, Policy & Regulation
Tuesday November 29, 2011
Generation Rx: Four Days to Go
Generation Rx, our town hall on the use and abuse of opioid pain relievers, airs on White Coat, Black Art this coming Saturday December 3 at 11:30 am (noon NT) and again on December 5 at 11:30am (3:30 pm NT) on CBC Radio One. All week long, we bring you extensive coverage of the issues surrounding this new and disturbing public health problem. Over the past few years, prescriptions for opioid pain relievers have gone way up. Along with the increase in prescribing has come an increase in reports of abuse. The non-medical use of opioids is now the fourth leading form of substance abuse in Canada, behind alcohol, tobacco and cannabis.
Several weeks ago, we asked for your stories about pain and about using prescription opioid drugs to relieve it. Hit the jump to read a selection of your emails. And don't forget to tune in this Saturday and again on Monday to listen to the town hall.
Read more »Categories: Accountability, Blog Archives, Health Professionals, Patient Safety, Policy & Regulation, Town Hall
Monday November 28, 2011
Park Your Frustration: Even More
As you know, last month, we devoted an entire show on the trials and tribulations of hospital parking. The show generated the second highest number of emails, phone calls and blog posts in the history of White Coat, Black Art, as you can see by reading the hospital parking show mailbag.
Today, the Canadian Medical Association Journal weighed in on the subject of hospital parking with an editorial in the current edition. In it, Dr. Rajendra Kale argues that parking fees are "a barrier to health care and add avoidable stress to patients who have enough to deal with." He cited a case in which the search for a parking spot and the ongoing need to feed a parking meter interfered with a clinical consultation.
"For example, some patients (who have often waited several weeks to see a doctor) try to end a consultation abruptly when they realize they will have to pay for an additional hour for parking," writes Dr. Kale.
Read more »Categories: Blog Archives, Hospitals, Policy & Regulation
- December 2011
- November 2011
- Tue., 29 – Generation Rx: Four Days to Go
- Mon., 28 – Park Your Frustration: Even More
- Wed., 23 – Unpaid Caregiver Show Mailbag
- October 2011
- Fri., 7 – Respect Show
- September 2011
- Wed., 28 – Rural Medicine Mailbag
- Wed., 14 – Personal Support Worker Mailbag
- June 2011
- Mon., 13 – Medical Deans Who Plagiarize Should Resign
- May 2011
- Fri., 6 – Mother's Milk Show
- Wed., 4 – Healthy Skepticism Mailbag
- April 2011
- Wed., 13 – Beware of "Off-Label" Prescribing
- Tue., 12 – Older Doctors: Update
- Fri., 8 – Will to Die Part 2 + Overdiagnosed
- March 2011
- Thu., 31 – Older Doctors Mailbag
- February 2011
- Mon., 7 – Reverse Medical Tourism?
- January 2011
- Thu., 13 – Thursday Mailbag
- Mon., 10 – Patient Privacy: More to Come
- Fri., 7 – Patient Privacy show
- November 2010
- Wed., 24 – Wednesday Mailbag
- October 2010
- Fri., 22 – Sex, Lies and Medical Mistakes Episode
- Wed., 20 – Wednesday Mailbag
- Mon., 18 – More Excerpts from Our Townhall
- Tue., 12 – Town Hall Tonight
- September 2010
- Wed., 22 – Wednesday Mailbag
- August 2010
Air Times
| Network | Times |
|---|---|
| Radio One | Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. (12:00 p.m. NT) and again on Mondays at 11:30 a.m. (3:30 p.m. NT) |
| Monday 4:30 p.m. ET Tuesday 3:30 a.m. ET Friday 3:00 a.m. ET Saturday 10:30 a.m. ET |
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