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Disability rights advocate Vicky Levack joins us with a look at how technology affects the lives of people with disabilities, on this episode of Disability Debunked. 

Where Jennifer Moore lives in downtown Windsor, the sewers overflow onto her street and her property neary everytime it rains. Moore says she knows there is no quick fix, but she is calling on the province to keep residents safe from the raw sewage. That includes covering the cos ... Show More

From the massive profits declared by our national grocery chains, to people living in tents across the country, economic inequality seems more evident now than it has in generations. Lars Osberg explores how inequality is growing at an accelerated pace in his new book The Scandal ... Show More

Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. [@chutkaMD] Guest: Amanda K. Lorenz, M.D. Giving our patients bad or unexpected news is one of the most difficult, but also one of the most important responsibilities we have as health care clinicians. This is when our patients need us the most and we ... Show More

Health-care workers are under threat from more than just the coronavirus itself: The mental health effects of the work are grave. Doctors and nurses fighting Covid-19 are watching patients die at rates rarely seen in civilian medicine; and they’re delivering the news to family me ... Show More

Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor.But a Times investigation has revealed that many have deviated from those charitable roots, behaving like for-profit companies, sometimes to the detriment of the heal ... Show More

Today we are re-running an episode exploring a question that seems super straightforward, but that on closer examination reveals incredible complexity, and that is "how do we put the patient at the center of the healthcare system?” It almost seems counterintuitive, since aren’t p ... Show More

Getting ill shouldn’t be expensive. But for many patients, being diagnosed with cancer can be a financial catastrophe. Hilary Osborne looks at why. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus 

Since January, the staff at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario have cared for hundreds of COVID-positive patients.Through a series of self-recordings and interviews, CBC's Wendy Mesley was able to access what life is like inside the hospital's intensive care unit. Today on F ... Show More

Emergencies can happen anytime, and ER doctors need to be ready and rested to treat everything from cardiac events to gunshot wounds or broken bones. Their work could mean life or death for the patients in their care. NYC ER doctor George Russo shares how he finds time to rest de ... Show More