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Ear Wax
Do you know there is no part of the body too gross
or too sticky for Cobourg family physician Dr. Paul Caldwell
to look at? And this week he needs you to listen up and
show a little respect for ear wax.
Next
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Inside
each of us is a complex system of arteries and veins that
gets blood to whereever it needs to go. But sometimes that
system can spring a leak, a potentially fatal one. When
that happens it's called an aneurysm.
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November
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Aphasia
The word aphasia is Greek and means loss of language or
communication. It's usually the result of a stroke but unlike
more visible signs like paralysis or slurred speech, aphasia
leaves people suffering in silence.
Think of all the conversations you have in a single day
– from meetings at work, catching up with friends
or just complaining about the weather. How would you cope
if your ability to do that was taken away?
That 's what it's like living with aphasia. We visit the
Aphasia Centre in Toronto to find out how volunteers and
doctors are helping stroke victims communicate.
Stroke Drug
In a survey for the Heart and Sroke Foundation more than
60% of Ontarians were unable to identify even one of the
five warning signs of stroke.
Every sixty seconds in North America, someone has a stroke.
It is the fourth leading cause of death in Canada, and when
it doesn't kill, it can be profoundly disabling. There is
a drug available and if given early enough it can prevent
the disastrous effects of a stroke. But it can also be deadly
if given to the wrong person. So should it be available
to everyone who might be having a stroke? To help us understand
this controversial treatment for strokes is Dr. Glenn Sheiner,
a Toronto doctor and former emergency room physician, and
Dr Miriam Shuchman, a medical ethicist and professor at
the University of Toronto
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November
12
Work
Stress
Show me someone who isn't stressed at work. We all are but
there are certain kinds of stress that are actually making
people sick. Stress can be responsible for everything from
depression, to heart disease, and even the common cold.
And employee absenteeism is skyrocketing. So health and
business professionals, including doctors from the Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, have teamed
up to try to discover exactly what is making people sick
on the job, and how to prevent it. Irma Lutkin is one person
they want to help.
Pain Guidelines
It's difficult enough to face the death of a loved one but
what if the person was suffering unbearable pain? You'd
want drugs to ease their pain .. but what if those drugs
hastened their death? That's a choice made every day at
the bedsides of the terminally ill. And it's a decision
doctors are often reluctant to make, worried that their
intentions may be misinterpreted. A new set of pain guidelines
hopes to ease those fears. Dr. Laura Hawryluck is an intensive
care doctor, ethicist at the University of Toronto and the
lead author of the new guidelines. Joining her is Margaret
Anderson, who founded a hospice for cancer patients in Oakville.
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