Surviving a stroke at 24
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CBC Radio's Dr. Brian Goldman takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals and doctors' offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies.
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Introducing IDEAS | How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system
IDEAS, hosted by Nahlah Ayed is a daily podcast that explores how ideas over place and time shape our world. In the days before her medicall...
The Netherlands’ primary care is better – here’s how
Dr. Tara Kiran knows primary care in Canada can be better. That's why the Toronto-based family physician and researcher went to the Netherla...
Grief built this treatment centre
When sportscaster Scott Oake isn't rinkside at NHL games, he's often hanging out at a substance use treatment centre in Winnipeg. He's there...
How post-traumatic stress led one paramedic to a new mission
Miles Randell says years of working as a Vancouver paramedic led to post-traumatic stress that left him “unemployable.” When the help he nee...
Fighting for better births
What if birth care put women and babies first? Dr. Michael Klein’s guiding question came from the Ethiopian midwives who let him “catch” his...
Condoms and wastewater testing: How public health is handling FIFA World Cup
As Toronto and Vancouver play host to the international soccer tournament, public health officials have been preparing for the influx of peo...
A camel, a fractured pelvis, and a travel insurance lesson
Carol Ann McDevitt spent two years looking forward to a trip to Egypt. But an accident on a camel ride completely changed her travel plans a...
The power of an exercise prescription
Calgary nurse and primary care behavioural health provider Rachel Fynn prescribes exercise as medicine. Through Alberta's Prescription to Ge...
Inside the Halifax hospital scanning for weapons
AI-powered weapons detectors now scan everyone entering the Halifax Infirmary, screening out everything from box-cutters to homemade throwin...
The permanent birth control surgery that may lower ovarian cancer risk
There's a surgery to remove the fallopian tubes as a permanent method of birth control that could also reduce a woman's risk of the most com...
Colorectal cancer's surprising Canadian hero
Canadians under 50 are twice as likely as prior generations to get colorectal cancer. In this encore episode, we met up with battle rapper B...
The rare disease treatment gap
Three million Canadians live with a rare disease, but many still struggle to get treatment. Jeremy Harany was diagnosed as a child with hypo...
The nurse practitioners who saved a clinic
So many Canadian small towns have lost their only doctor. But when this happened in Wembley, Alberta, two nurse practitioners stepped in tha...
Terry O'Reilly rates hospital ads
Canadian hospitals are increasingly relying on donor dollars to make up for government funding cuts. And from Ryan Reynolds’ lol-worthy “bra...
"We're number 2!" Why a Canadian hospital is boasting
Healthcare institutions rarely brag, but Toronto’s University Health Network is proudly advertising itself as the world’s #2 hospital and “C...
How Germany gets hip, knee surgeries done faster than Canada
Canadians in some provinces can wait years for a new hip or knee. In Germany, it can take just weeks. Transplanted Canadian Elizabeth Sandom...
ENCORE: Saving elderly patients from the hazards of the ER
It may seem counterintuitive, but hospital ERs can be risky for elderly patients, as the chaotic environment can quickly lead to delirium an...
Psilocybin is changing minds. Will it soon change the law?
“Pistol” Pete Pearson took ‘magic mushrooms’ illegally to ease his end-of-life distress, and is angry that Health Canada denied him access t...
Pistol Pete's psilocybin trip
"Pistol" Pete Pearson underwent psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to ease his end-of-life distress, and calls it a game-changer. Rather than...