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Unavailable'I'm alive because of it': Ostomy advocate fights to dispel stigmas around the life-saving procedure
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'I'm alive because of it': Ostomy advocate fights to dispel stigmas around the life-saving procedure

FromWhite Coat, Black Art


Currently unavailable

'I'm alive because of it': Ostomy advocate fights to dispel stigmas around the life-saving procedure

FromWhite Coat, Black Art

ratings:
Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dr Brian Goldman talks to Jessica Grossman, a twenty-nine year-old marketing executive with Crohn's disease. In an effort to battle the stigma of having an ostomy, she uses social media to post photos of herself with her ostomy clearly visible. Brian also talks to Karen Bruton, a frontline nurse in Victoria BC who specializes in wound, ostomy and continence care - or NSWOC for short. In her 34-year career, Bruton has taught dozens of patients how to live with an ostomy. She says much of the stigma surrounding ostomies comes directly from health care providers themselves.
Released:
Mar 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (56)

CBC Radio's Dr. Brian Goldman takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals and doctors' offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies.