Season 5 Episode 6: Making Space for non-physical suffering - Dr Maxxine Rattner

Dr. Maxxine Rattner is a hospice/palliative care clinician and educator who recently completed her PhD on the topic of non-physical suffering. In this...

Season 5 Episode 5: Cultural humility in healthcare - Dr Zhimeng Jia

Dr. Zhimeng Jia is a palliative care physician at the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care in Toronto.  Through a combination of personal and clini...

Season 5 Episode 4: Wrap Around Support: Caring for the Seriously Ill Child - Dr Dave Lysecki

Dr. David Lysecki is the Founder and Medical Director of the Quality of Life & Advanced Care Program at McMaster Children's Hospital. In this episode,...

Season 5 Episode 3: Finding Joy in Every Day: When your child is diagnosed with a terminal illness - Mishi Methven

Shortly after Mishi Methven and her partner Aimee’s daughter Stella turned two, they were given the devastating news that Stella only had months to li...

Season 5 Episode 2: Through the Patient’s Lens: Advocacy from the Inside - Julie Vizza

Julie Vizza was born with a multifaceted genetic condition, beta thalassemia-major. She joins the podcast today to discuss her journey in the healthca...

Season 5 Episode 1: Breaking the Barriers of Ableism - Billy Bridges

In this episode, Billy Bridges shares his inspiring ideas for addressing Ableism with empathy and offers a rallying cry for disability advocacy. Billy...

Season 4 Episode 6: Doctor as Patient - Serena Tejpar

At the young age of 18, Serena Tejpar was injured in a car collision as a backseat passenger that left her in critical condition with almost no chance...

Season 4 Episode 5: Brian’s Story: Living Fully and Completely - Brian Smith

In 2022, Brian Smith’s life was profoundly changed by a diagnosis of metastatic cancer. In this episode, Brian shares his experiences of living with c...

Season 4 Episode 4: Person-Centered Care Pearls: A Conversation with Dr. Harvey Chochinov (Part 2)

In this 2 part episode, we chat about the importance of compassionate and dignity conserving care. He provides the learners with many pearls on how to...

Season 4 Episode 3: Person-Centered Care Pearls: A Conversation with Dr. Harvey Chochinov (Part 1)

In this 2 part episode, we chat about the importance of compassionate and dignity conserving care. He provides the learners with many pearls on how to...

Season 4 Episode 2: Compassionate virtual care during a pandemic - Anat Baron

Season 4 Episode 1: A Father's Legacy - Mitchell Consky

Mitchell Consky is a Toronto- based journalist. His work has been published in the Globe and Mail, CTV News and other international news outlets. Mitc...

Season 3 Episode 8: Spiritual Care Support

Season 3 Episode 7: Advanced Care Planning

Even when an Advance Care Plan is in place, Dr Maria Muraca learned that unforeseen circumstances can come up. Maria was the Power of Attorney for her...

Season 3 Episode 6: Addiction, Recovery, and the Health Care System

Season 3 Episode 5: Gun Control Advocacy

Doctors for Protection from Guns https://www.doctorsforprotectionfromguns.ca

Season 3 Episode 4: Children and Grief - Part Two

Season 3 Episode 3: Physician Wellness & Trauma in COVID-19

Season 3 Episode 2: Combating Systemic Racism in Health Care

Over the last year, the impact of systemic racism in healthcare has come into sharper focus. From racialized populations being disproportionately impa...

Season 3 Episode 1: Grieving and Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stacey (Greenberg) is here today to tell us about her father who lived with Multiple Sclerosis in a long-term care facility since 2014. During the pan...

Episode 6: Understanding Children's Grief - Part One

For more information on Andrea’s work: https://andreawarnick.com

Episode 5: Approaching Empathy on a Systems Level

Episode 4: Getting Personal

Get to know our hosts https://www.aboutempathy.com/about-hosts

Episode 3: Medical Assistance In Dying - Part 2 A Patient's Story

This is Part 2 of 2 episodes on Medical Assistance in Dying. Part 1 is a discussion with doctors who provide the treatment.

Episode 2: Medical Assistance In Dying - Part 1 Physician's Experience

This is Part 1 of 2 episodes on Medical Assistance in Dying. Part 2 will feature an interview from a patient.

Episode 1: A New Normal? Reflections On Life With Cancer

Gill Deacon has returned to Here and Now which can be heard weekdays 3-6pm, on CBC Radio 99.1FM. She has written a memoir Naked Imperfection, and a na...

Episode 8: Finding Meaning and Preserving Dignity

Emotional or existential distress is not as easily noticed in patients with serious illness. Dr. Jennifer Moore is a palliative medicine consultant, s...

Episode 7: Finding Balance in Dual Roles

When faced with serious illness, patients and caregivers take on new roles. Those who work in health care are in a unique position when becoming a car...

Episode 6: Authentic Relationships

When faced with bad news, it can be difficult to speak to others leading to interactions that are inauthentic. Euphemisms, platitudes, and missed effo...

Episode 5: Caring for Caregiver

When caring for a loved one with serious illness, caregivers focus intensely on the patient. Without checking in on the caregiver, the health care tea...

Episode 4: Palliative Care and Compassion Fatigue

Dr Daphna Grossman is a palliative care physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto ON. Describing her journey to palliative care, Daphna spea...

Episode 3: Looking Back

Susan shares her experience of taking care of her Dad as his cancer progressed. She learned the strong will he had. He was a person who didn’t complai...

Episode 2: Survivorship and Hope

Aviva describes both the relief and fear of completing active treatment for marginal zone lymphoma. Survivorship, life after disease, has been an emot...

Episode 1: Gratitude

On their 22nd wedding anniversary, Sholom discusses the palliative care of his late wife, Erminia. Erminia made the graceful decision to transition to...