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Keeping Canada Alive

Episode #1.4 (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 44 min | Documentary
The Bridge Clinic in Vancouver deals specifically with patients who are in the government refugee system. Staff face the difficult tasks of understanding the patients' needs not knowing their history and often not knowing what medication ...See moreThe Bridge Clinic in Vancouver deals specifically with patients who are in the government refugee system. Staff face the difficult tasks of understanding the patients' needs not knowing their history and often not knowing what medication they are taking, as well as understanding the life changes they are facing as refugees. Today, Nidaq is in the clinic dealing with the emotional trauma of her journalist daughter being murdered back in her native Iraq, she suffering from nightmares as a consequence. In Kamloops, Randi, with her husband at her side, is in the hospital in labor. This is her third pregnancy. The last one, where she was required to come into this same ward, ended with a stillborn child at thirty-seven weeks. Randi can't help but have the emotions of that last experience wash over her as her labor progresses. The White Raven Healing Centre of the All Nations Healing Hospital is located in Fort Qu'Appelle. Many people will be coming into the centre today as Michael, a healer, will be present, he using indigenous practices in his healing techniques, which are used in conjunction with western medicine. In Ottawa, Tina is in the hospital to have a preventative mastectomy and the start of reconstructive breast surgery, something she has contemplated doing for years. Her other breast was removed twenty years ago due to cancer, she at high risk to develop it again in the breast that will be dealt with today. She has many more choices today than she had twenty years ago, but is still apprehensive if only because of the psychological connection she has between breasts and womanhood. In Montreal, Dr. Bloom is a psychiatrist who is a resident at among other places the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. Today, he has as a patient Pascale, who will be receiving the latest electroshock therapy treatment to deal with her severe depression, psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy which have proven to be unsuccessful. Another patient he visits is Darlene, who has been in the ward this time for a few weeks, she who suffers from schizophrenia and who has attempted suicide before. Dr. Bloom wants to lessen her anxiety so that she can be well enough to go home without those suicidal thoughts. And at the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Centre in St. John's, Dr. Landells has as patients an elderly woman with unusually recurring skin cancer, primarily on her face, which has required major facial reconstructive surgery, but who is always optimistic about her life, and twenty-seven year old Sarah, who also suffered a small skin cancer on her leg. Written by Huggo See less
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Producer
Greg Laikin
Cinematographers
Stephen Taylor | Michael Tien
Editor
Scott Winlaw (edited by)
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Updated Oct 25, 2015
Release date
Oct 25, 2015 (Canada)
Awards
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2 nominations

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24 (2001)
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