White Coat, Black Art
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White Coat, Black Art
Trusted ER doctor Brian Goldman brings you honest and surprising stories that can change your health and your life. Expect deep conversations with patients, families and colleagues that show you what is and isn't working in Canadian healthcare. Guaranteed you’ll learn something new. Episodes drop ev...
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Desperate measures: Behind Quebec’s unprecedented healthcare reforms
Quebec family doctors have struck a tentative agreement with the province, but Dr. Marina Lagodich has made up her mind. When the CAQ government rushe...
Testicles outrank ovaries—and other reasons women wait so long for gynecologic surgery
Ottawa family physician Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth faced a long wait for surgery after post-menopausal bleeding, and has seen her patients endure the same....
The air rescue team reinventing first responder support
Miles Randell, an advanced care paramedic, is trying to do something different for frontline health-care workers who need a supportive work environmen...
This Vancouver hospital is transforming addiction treatment
Dr. Paxton Bach has spent years trying to help people navigate a broken system. Inconsistent approaches to withdrawal management, long wait times for...
ENCORE: Virtual doctors for real ERs
Like many of Canada’s rural and remote communities, Mackenzie, B.C.’s hospital struggles to staff the ER. But once a week, a doctor hundreds of kilome...
How to make a health-care complaint and get results
When care at a hospital or clinic falls short for you or a loved one, how do you raise concerns that get results? We asked listeners for stories about...
Diabetes care on wheels
Until recently, Jeremy Auger’s diabetes was unstable. Then he met endocrinologist Dr. David Campbell and the team with the diabetes mobile clinic in C...
One in three Canadians is obese, and it’s not about willpower
Obesity has more than tripled in Canada since 1981. In their new book “Food Intelligence,” Canadian co-authors Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall - an award-...
BONUS: He was censored by the U.S. government. What that means for food research
More with Kevin Hall! Until recently, Hall was the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s key researcher on the connection between ultra-processed foods...
A patient complaint that actually led to change
When his wife died of endometrial cancer, Charles Kinch refused to accept that the care she received was the best she could get. His complaint, at fir...
ENCORE: One town's fight to reinstate healthcare
Like many Canadian small towns, Carberry, MB had become a healthcare desert. In 2023, the small ER closed and the last doctor left. Carberry embarked...
Dr. Brian Day wants more private health care
For three decades, Dr. Brian Day has been at the centre of the debate around private health care in Canada. Despite losing his court battle to bring i...
Giving mental-health emergency patients a room of their own
Ottawa’s Montfort hospital sees twice the number of patients for mental health emergencies as the Ontario average. And as this number increased in rec...
The doctor Brampton needs
Gurleen Kaur Chahal is one of the inaugural students at Toronto Metropolitan University’s new Peel Region medical school, designed to serve the area’s...
The human face of 'AI psychosis'
After a seemingly innocuous question about pi, Allan Brooks tumbled down a ChatGPT rabbit hole. Three weeks later, he emerged, after spending 300 hour...
Public pain, private care: Why one woman is paying to walk again
How much would you be willing (and able) to pay to get your knee or hip replaced? Calgarian Linda Slater's knee pain became unbearable during her two-...
ENCORE: What do “Ask your doctor” ads accomplish?
Companies are spending big bucks advertising weight-loss drugs like Rybelsus, seeing huge potential in capitalizing on the popularity of Ozempic. But...
ENCORE: The battle rapper who battled colon cancer
As a rapper, Bishop Brigante was no stranger to on-stage battles. We met up with the then-45-year-old when he was battling Stage 4 colon cancer, which...
ENCORE: Sex medicine doctors are putting women’s health, and pleasure, first
Many women report difficulties with orgasms, low libido or pain around intercourse. And given that many have never even learned much about their geni...
ENCORE: The family doctor recruiting game
Attracting a family doctor to work in a community is challenging, with fewer physicians choosing family medicine. That's why Cheryl Gnyp, the recruite...
ENCORE: The kidney transplant waiting game
Judith Morrison needs a kidney. While she's on dialysis, her sister Catherine is putting out a public plea for a living donor. But the search has been...
ENCORE: Nursing as occupational hazard
One morning as she arrived for her hospital shift, Winnipeg nurse Jennifer Noone was assaulted outside the staff entrance, leaving her with a bad conc...
ENCORE: The Unshakeable MD
At 28 years old, Dr. Soania Mathur was building her medical practice and expecting her first child. Then, she was diagnosed with Young-Onset Parkinson...
ENCORE: Hot as hell
How far would you go to test your body in extreme heat? Ironworker apprentice Britnee Miazek travels hundreds of kilometres to Brock University in St....
ENCORE: The toll of cannabis-induced psychosis
When Kalpit Sharma started smoking high-THC weed several times a day, he thought he was just “living his life” as a university student. But then, he s...
ENCORE: The Senator's Singer
We're replaying this episode in honour of National Indigenous History Month. Former senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Murra...
As Dr. Theresa Tam steps down, she urges Canada to stand strong on public health
Dr. Theresa Tam steps down this week after eight years as Canada’s chief public health officer. Best known for leading the COVID-19 public health resp...
Dr. Eric Topol on the science of longevity when science is in peril
Cardiologist, scientist and bestselling author Dr. Eric Topol's new book "Super Agers" distills decades of research on how to make us healthier for lo...
Alberta's measles problem
Alberta is dealing with almost 800 cases of measles, the most in nearly forty years. Dr. Mark Joffe is an infectious disease physician who recently se...
Family doctor who quit teaches the next gen how to stay
After 25+ years as a family physician, Dr. Fan-Wah Mang closed her practice because she burned out. Now, she’s at Humber River Hospital in Toronto, te...
Waiting 84 weeks and counting for a new knee
Thousands of Canadians are in line for a joint replacement surgery. Tracey Knowlton is one of them, waiting over 84 weeks for a knee replacement. Orth...
ENCORE: The early bird gets the derm
A crowd lines up every weekday at a unique walk-in dermatology clinic in Toronto. People have conditions ranging from severe rashes to potentially can...
The treatment centre that grief built, part 2
At the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre for men in Winnipeg, over 90% of the staff are in recovery from substance abuse themselves. Staffers like Terrence M...
The treatment centre that grief built, part 1
When sportscaster Scott Oake isn't rinkside at NHL games, he's often hanging out at a substance abuse treatment centre in Winnipeg. He's there to be c...
What will the federal parties do for health care?
With election day just around the corner, we know Canadians have questions about health care and how the next federal government can help make it bett...
How is the federal government responsible for health care?
Much of the federal election campaign’s focus has been on the U.S. But health care is always on the minds of Canadians. So what are the federal govern...
Public healthcare is a national crisis. So why isn't it an election priority?
The federal election campaign so far has been dominated by curveballs from the U.S. But meanwhile, the state of public healthcare in Canada remains di...
$150 for 15 minutes, part 2
More Quebeckers are paying to see a family doc for services that should be covered publicly. Dr. Martin Potter explains why he founded Clinique Santé...
$150 for 15 minutes, part 1
In Quebec, family medicine is the latest troubling frontier in a two-tier system that's been quietly growing for years. Dr. Brian Goldman visits Clini...
A life or death 40-hour wait in the ER
Christina Shehata waited 40 hours in an Ontario hospital ER to get an inpatient bed. It’s a common reality in hospitals across Canada. What makes Chri...