Ethics After Hours

In this episode of Emergency: NYC, surgeons at Cohen Children’s Medical Center collaborate with Dr. Langer as he performs a dangerous procedure on a young toddler who has a tumour in his brain that causes severe seizures. At Lenox Hill, Dr. Boockvar performs surgery on a 23-year-old medical student with hydrocephalus who has opted to have a shunt placed to drain the spinal fluid building up in his brain. The episode also follows several other patients, including two young men are treated in hospital after being shot, and first responder Vicky’s 94-year uncle, who is taken to hospital after having fallen out of bed.

This film is the extraordinary story of Dr. Shelly Sarwal, a physician from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), an incurable disease, Shelly chose to undergo the recently legalized Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) procedure and become an organ donor. As the first person in Nova Scotia to undergo this complicated medical journey, she dedicated the short time she had left on this earth to educate health professionals and the public about being in control of your death and creating a meaningful legacy through organ donation.  

‘A Question of Trust’ is the fifth episode in the Netflix documentary series Diagnosis, which is based on Dr. Lisa Sanders’ column in the New York Times. In this episode, we meet Lashay, a 17-year-old girl who is not able to hold down anything she eats or drinks. Dr. Sanders turns to crowdsourcing for advice regarding a possible diagnosis given Lashay’s symptoms. The crowd’s suggestions point toward a diagnosis that Lashay has already been given by her own doctors, but Lashay and her family are leery of the crowd’s advice. The way Lashay’s possible diagnosis was communicated to her has left her feeling judged by her medical providers and the family’s reluctance to accept the diagnosis appears to be due to a lack of trust in the medical profession.

With humour and empathy, Brené Brown discusses what it takes to choose courage over comfort in a culture defined by scarcity, fear and uncertainty.

Medical devices can save lives, help us live longer, and improve our quality of life. In The Bleeding Edge, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy explore how lax regulations, corporate cover-ups and the drive for profit in the medical device industry may put patients at risk. The program features cases where medical devices such as Essure (a permanent birth control device), vaginal mesh, the DaVinci Surgical System, and chrome-cobalt hip replacements have caused irrevocable harm to patients.

Medical devices can save lives, help us live longer, and improve our quality of life. In The Bleeding Edge, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy explore how lax regulations, corporate cover-ups and the drive for profit in the medical device industry may put patients at risk. The program features cases where medical devices such as Essure (a permanent birth control device), vaginal mesh, the DaVinci Surgical System, and chrome-cobalt hip replacements have caused irrevocable harm to patients.

The heaviest burden of COVID-19 has fallen on the shoulders of medical staff, first responders and others who care for the sick and vulnerable. These people are saving lives while putting their own health and mental well-being at risk.

Several doctors and nurses have written asking for advice on the small ways they can make their daily lives a little easier to bear. So we asked cardiologist and wellbeing expert Dr. Michael Rocha to explain the ways he’s preparing for shifts on a Covid ward.

A woman must cope with her brother urging to put their mother battling with dementia in a facility and her father who is committed to keeping his wife home.

RETURN TO ZERO is based on the true story of a successful couple preparing for the arrival of their first child. Just weeks before their due date they discover that their son has died in the womb and will be stillborn.