Family doctor turns patient in Keeping Canada Alive Part 2

The second episode of Keeping Canada Alive, a day in the life of our health system, features two families receiving respite care for children with complex illnesses, and a woman with MS wondering if shoulder pain signals a worsening illness.

The six-part series is narrated by Emmy Award-winning Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland. The series asks:What if we could see what our health care system does in a single day? How would we feel?

• Kiefer Sutherland narrates Keeping Canada Alive, an intimate look at health care

On May 6, 2015, more than 60 camera crews set out in 24 cities across Canada to shoot patients, their families and health-care providers at hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices and in homes.

Be a fly on the wall during the second episode as:

• Two Ottawa families receive respite care as they cope with the challenges of raising a child with a complex illness. A mother faces her own majormedical challenge.
• A busy family doctor-turned-patient fits in her own colonoscopy screening before she heads to the clinic and makes home visits in North Vancouver.
• A Toronto cardiologist works to find transplants and technologies to help the one of 50,000 Canadians diagnosed each year with heart failure.
• A Winnipeg woman with MS meets with an occupational therapist as she wonders if shoulder pain means the disease is progressing.
• A physician at Nova Scotia's busiest emergency department investigates a heart abnormality in a man suffering from head lacerations after a car collision.
• A Vancouver family waits nervously as their 25-year-old son has hissecond heart surgery in six years.

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