Past Episodes
Tuesday January 3, 2012
Chasing Cures: The Promise and the Peril of Medical Devices
Categories: Blog Archives, Technology & Innovation
Thursday April 21, 2011
High Tech Show
This Easter weekend, we're rebroadcasting our show from last season about the impact of high tech medicine on the care you receive. We also have your reaction to last week's show on healthcare as the sleeper issue of the 2011 federal election.
Below is my original blog post about the High Tech show:
If I had just a dollar for every patient I see in the ER who asks for an MRI, I'd be rich. Patients and doctors alike have bought into an assumption that more and better technology makes for better health care.
This week, we examine the role technology plays in health care and ask whether more tech in medicine means less craft. As medical historian Stanley Reiser says on the show, the debate over tech versus craft is as old as the stethescope.
On second thought, we shouldn't be dreading the future - especially when you find out the kinds of breakthroughs that are just around the corner.
Case in point: Think off-the-shelf body parts are science fiction? Within our lifetimes, we may be ordering new kidneys from a store or a catalog. Researchers at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina were the first in the world to custom build a replacement bladder in a lab and transplant it successfully into a human being.
There are people walking around today with laboratory-built bladders, thanks to the Institute, and its' director, Dr. Anthony Atala.
To hear my conversation with him, tune in Saturday at 11 am (11:30 am NT) and again on Monday at 11:30 am (3:30 pm NT) on CBC Radio One. Or, click below to listen to the show right now, or download the podcast:
Categories: Blog Archives, Past Episodes, Technology & Innovation
Wednesday February 9, 2011
No Appointment Show Mailbag
Love them or hate them, walk in clinics are filling a growing gap in health care. We toured the hub of Appletree Medical Clinics, which operates 11 clinics in the Ottawa area that offer both family medicine and treatment for walk-in patients. A big feature of the clinics is that they post wait times updated every 15 minutes on their web site. Fifty thousand of the quarter of a million patients who visit Appletree Medical Clinics in Ontario each year don't have a family doctor. And a surprising number of people who visit walk-ins have a GP but choose not to see them. In the ER, I see patients like that all the time. Our show this week on the promise and the pitfalls of 'no appointment' medicine generated a huge response from you.
Click here to listen to our 'No Appointment' show.
Categories: Blog Archives, Family Medicine, Health Professionals, Technology & Innovation
- January 2012
- April 2011
- Thu., 21 – High Tech Show
- February 2011
- Wed., 9 – No Appointment Show Mailbag
- Fri., 4 – The No Appointment Show
- November 2010
- Fri., 26 – Time to Mention the Unmentionables
- Fri., 5 – Healthy Design
- Wed., 3 – Fall Back to Standard Time? Maybe not
- October 2010
- Mon., 4 – Want to Friend Your MD? Go Rural!
- Fri., 1 – Social Medicine
- September 2010
- Fri., 17 – Hospitals Go Green on WCBA
- Wed., 15 – Wednesday Mailbag: Reaction to MS Show
- Sat., 11 – WCBA Season Debut
- August 2010
- July 2010
- Wed., 21 – Tasers in the ER? You've got to be Kidding!
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