Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchENCORE: 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 kilometres away fills in virtually. Many provinces like…
Published on 8 hours ago
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 making complaints in health care and were floode…
Published on 1 week ago
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 Calgary. The roving clinic brings care directly to…
Published on 2 weeks ago
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-winning health and science journalist, and a prom…
Published on 3 weeks ago
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 and obesity. He took an early retirement due to …
Published on 3 weeks ago
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 first dismissed, has now sparked major changes in ho…
Published on 4 weeks ago
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 on the fight of its life to get healthcare back. …
Published on 1 month ago
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 it to B.C., Day still wants to see more private, f…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
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 recent years, the everyday environment of the ER wai…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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 diverse population. She's determined to be part …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago