Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchENCORE: 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 recruit…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
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 bee…
9 months ago
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 con…
9 months, 1 week ago
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 Parkinso…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
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 …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
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 Murr…
10 months ago
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 res…
10 months, 1 week ago
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 l…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
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 s…
10 months, 3 weeks ago