Latest Mountsinaihospital Podcast Episodes
Frontiers of Care: Born At 27 Weeks
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - March 22, 2021 17:30 - 24 minutesSabrina Hawkes had a gut feeling that something was wrong with her pregnancy. Her first child had been big. This one was small and growing slowly. At a routine appointment only 27 weeks into her pregnancy, she learned any hope of survival for her baby meant he needed to be born that day at Mount...
Frontiers of Care: Young, Fit and Life After a Stroke
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - March 22, 2021 17:21 - 27 minutesSince her early teens, strange feelings of dizziness and nausea would occasionally overcome Kim Taylor. Otherwise healthy and active, she thought it was nothing serious. A chance phone call to discuss a sports-related injury led her to a diagnosis, but that was just the beginning of her medical ...
Frontiers of Care: Inside the Long-Term Care Crisis
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - March 22, 2021 16:19 - 23 minutesWhen the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Canada, staff at Mount Sinai Hospital were anticipating a rise of cases in acute care. Instead, the immediate crisis arose elsewhere: inside long-term care homes, affecting some of Canada’s most vulnerable residents. Hospitals were paired with long-term care...
Frontiers of Care: Treating Disease In-Utero
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - March 22, 2021 16:16 - 24 minutesWhen Alana Robertson became pregnant, she hadn’t heard of in-utero surgeries, or imagined she might one day need one. But when she learned her unborn baby was showing signs of spina bifida, she was open to anything that might help him. She learned that the surgeons at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospi...
Frontiers of Care: A Unique Cancer Treatment
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - March 22, 2021 16:13 - 26 minutesAndré Parisien was enjoying retirement when he received a sudden diagnosis of cancer. It was spreading through his abdominal cavity. After surgery failed to get rid of it, he learned he still had a chance of survival through a special treatment called HIPEC. The challenge was this treatment invo...
Frontiers of Care: Mount Sinai Hospital - A Story of Firsts
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - March 22, 2021 15:54 - 22 minutesIn the 1920s, a determined group of Jewish women dreamed of opening a hospital to serve their community. They knocked on doors, collecting nickels and dimes, until – against all odds - they were able to purchase a small building on Yorkville Avenue that would become Mount Sinai Hospital. Over th...
Providing Care From the Comfort of Home
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - July 20, 2020 17:59 - 28 minutesDr. Mayura Loganathan and nurse practitioner Sheena Luck talk to Dr. Howard Ovens about the home care program they created, and the challenges of providing excellent care outside of a hospital setting. Initially set up to to serve frail seniors who had difficulty coming into the hospital, they'v...
Planning A Pregnancy During a Pandemic
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - July 10, 2020 18:27 - 25 minutesFor women who've struggled with mental health issues like anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders planning a pregnancy can be challenging enough - let alone during a pandemic. Dr. Dalfen talks to Dr. Ovens about caring and supporting mothers - and fathers - through her Perinatal Mental Health and Teleme...
Good enough is pretty darn good: on institutional preparedness
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - June 25, 2020 14:24 - 28 minutesDr. Gary Newton talks to Dr. Howard Ovens about reactive leadership at Mount Sinai Hospital. As the first wave of a global pandemic passes and as global protests against anti-Black racism continue, Dr. Newton ruminates on the ways the hospital’s culture changed for the better and how institution...
How COVID-19 has impacted oncology and cancer patient care
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - June 23, 2020 17:59 - 24 minutesDr. Christine Brezden-Masley talks to Dr. Howard Ovens about the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted oncology and cancer patient care. As Ontario’s lockdown is being lifted, and as other provinces and countries reopen non-essential services, Dr. Masley reflects on how she’s working with infe...
The Trials and Tribulations of Testing and Research in a Time of Pandemic
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - June 12, 2020 17:43 - 25 minutesDr. Jeff Wrana talks to Dr. Howard Ovens about the challenges and importance of ramping up testing for the coronavirus, and the danger of "hysteria" around COVID-19. Dr. Wrana outlines how some studies are happening at breakneck speed, leading to "legitimate but very preliminary results" that ma...
It's a Marathon, Not A Sprint
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - June 04, 2020 15:58 - 26 minutesDr. Maureen Shandling talks to Dr. Howard Ovens about the realities of working in a COVID-19 world and how they're impacting care, staff, and families. She also reflects on the protests against police brutality in the U.S, and explores their resonance and relevance to public health issues here i...
Staying Resilient In the Face of a Pandemic
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - June 02, 2020 15:36 - 27 minutesDr. Bob Maunder talks to Dr. Howard Ovens about finding resilience during challenging times, and how difficult that can be in the face of a pandemic with no end in sight. Hear Dr. Maunder stress the value of close relationships, the importance of asking for help, the reward of exercise and laugh...
Babies Don't Stop For A Virus
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - May 29, 2020 14:19 - 36 minutesBirth is usually a time of celebration, but during a pandemic, it requires some extra care and caution. Drs. Prakesh Shah and Wendy Whittle join Dr. Howard Ovens to talk about how urgency, compassion, and collaboration are guiding them through providing maternal and neo-natal care during this ti...
Bringing Nobility and Grace to the End of A Life
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - May 23, 2020 22:21 - 20 minutesDr. Russell Goldman talks to Dr. Howard Ovens about the challenges of providing palliative care during the pandemic. Hear how video calls are making up for in-person visits, and how staff, patients, and families are trying their best to adopt under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Dr. Go...
The Tragedy of Long-Term Care in the Pandemic
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - May 19, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutesDr. Mark Lachmann talks to Dr. Howard Ovens about the tragedy that is unfolding in long-term care homes during this pandemic, the structural problems that explain why they have been the hardest hit, and the lack of oversight and accountability in long term care overall. Dr. Lachmann explains why...
Getting Tested and Keeping Safe, with Dr. Jennie Johnstone
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - May 11, 2020 14:39 - 32 minutesDr. Ovens talks to Dr. Jennie Johnstone about testing for COVID-19, including how accurate the test is, and how even a negative result is not the golden ticket people may think it is. Dr. Johnstone also talks about how she is keeping patients — especially those at the highest risk — and health-c...
How We Got Here, with Dr. Andrew Morris
Frontiers of Care: Inside Sinai Health - May 11, 2020 14:26 - 33 minutesIn our kick-off episode, Dr. Ovens takes us through why this podcast matters. With so much information out there about the pandemic, it's never been more important to separate fact from disinformation. And that's what every episode will do — together with another Sinai Health leader, Dr. Ovens w...
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