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When Canadians go abroad for surgery, who should pay?

Farley Yuras, 74, traveled to Poland to have both knees replaced after the wait in Edmonton became unbearable. He and his wife say that because of long delays, Alberta sh

She's a doctor with MS. Why is that a problem?

Dr. Erin Norris used to hide her multiple sclerosis to preserve her career as a rheumatologist. She was following an unspoken rule in medicine: either you practice at 100

Why U.S. nurses are moving north

Minnesota nurse Shane Tyson was frustrated by patients going without care because they couldn’t afford medication, and shaken by an ICE arrest at his hospital. Meanwhile,

Becoming the doctor her community 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 left family practice. Now she’s teaching doctors to avoid burnout.

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, teaching the next gene

How a chef and a surgeon are reinventing hospital meals

When Ned Bell’s wife was recovering from cancer surgery at Vancouver General Hospital, the unappetizing food she was served left a bad taste in his mouth. So the five-sta

AI conversations gone too far

Allan Brooks tumbled down a ChatGPT rabbit hole after an innocuous question about pi. Three weeks and 7,000 prompts later, he emerged from a 300-hour spiral. In this enco

The roadside ER doctor

When he's not working in the ER, Dr. Nicholas Sparrow spends his spare time in a surprising way. He responds to critical threat-to-life calls over the vast landscape of B

A new knee for $30k

How much would you pay to get your knee or hip replaced? Calgarian Linda Slater's knee pain became unbearable during her two-year wait to see an orthopedic surgeon. In th

Surviving a stroke at 24

When Kyle Brymer went to the ER with altered speech, facial drooping, severe headaches and confusion, the doctor blamed his symptoms on his post-grad academic workload an

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 medically-assisted death, journalist

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 Netherlands, a world leader in health,

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 to be close to his late son.

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 needed wasn’t there, he created T

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 first babies during a gap yea

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 people and any health risks that

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 and her understanding of travel

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 Get Active program, she helps pa

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 throwing stars studded with razor bla

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 common ovarian cancer. But a grou