1999 - 2000 Archive
Program #17
There's been alot of attention in the media around the issue of homelessness in Canada, most of it focused on the lack of shelter. But the homeless lack more than a roof over their head. They don't have doctors. They don't have medicine. They do have a plethora of health problems and each time they end up in hospital emergency rooms it costs taxpayers thousands of dollars. We look at a unique program in Toronto called Shared Care that's bringing healthcare to the hostels.
Psychiatric drugs have revolutionized the treatment of mental illness. Does anyone actually lie down on a couch to talk about his problems with a psychiatrist anymore? Or is he more likely to be handed a prescription for Prozac? David Cohen is a psychotherapist in Montreal and co-author of Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications and Dr. Ty Turner is a psychiatrist at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto.
Second Opinion
A few weeks ago on Your Health, Cynthia St. John talked about physician-assisted suicide and giving terminally-ill people a choice about how they die. This week, ethicist Moira McQueen says there are better ways to help people at the end of their life.
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