The Lift
The Lift is a podcast where we bring you conversations with healthcare workers, explore their experience navigating critical issues in the healthcare system and consider what fosters their sense of well-being at work, helps them to flourish, and learn what drives them forward.
Tune in weekly with our host Dr. Mary Elliott, a Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Mindfulness Teacher at Princess Margaret Cancer Center.
Episodes
9 episodes
Ep. 9: Befriending Digital Tools
Dr. Mary Elliott chats with Dr. Ada Barlatt, an award-winning researcher and entrepreneur. Over the years she has worked in various roles, including as an industrial engineer, professor, data scientist, and consultant. Ada brings this expertise...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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46:34
Ep. 8: Poetry as Medicine
This week, our featured guest on The Lift Podcast is Ronna Bloom, an educator, writing coach, and author of seven books and a chapbook. Her latest book, A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom (Edited by Phil Hall) is available to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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50:37
Ep. 7: Communication & Wellbeing
Dr. Mary Elliott speaks with Dr. Warren Lewin, Site Lead, Palliative Care, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. Warren is also a s...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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42:23
Ep. 6: Shame Resilience
Dr. Mary Elliott sits down with Dr. Dawn Lim, Emergency Physician at University Health Network & Assistant Professor in The Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dawn's love of learning and exploration led h...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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46:59
Ep. 5: Forest Bathing: Health Benefits & Park Prescriptions
This week, Dr. Mary Elliott chats with Dr. Melissa Lem, a Vancouver-based family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada. She is the co-founder and Director of Parks Prescriptions, known as #PaRx, an initiation ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:42
Ep. 4: Belonging and Healthcare
Our featured guest this week is Dr. Lisa Richardson, a mixed blood Anishinaabe physician and clinician educator in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and the Associate Dean of Inclusion & Diversity. Lisa also practices i...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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55:52
Ep. 3: Identity & Psychological Safety
Our host Dr. Mary Elliott sits down with Jessica Danquah, who works in the Urgent Care and Procedures Clinic, at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and serves as the Physician Assistant Lead, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princes...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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44:11
Ep. 2: From Bedside to Systems
In this episode Dr. Kali Barrett, a Critical Care Physician at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network and a public policy expert gives a moving account of providing bedside care to critically ill COVID patients and an inside look a...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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36:21
Ep. 1: Compassionate Leadership
Our host Dr. Mary Elliott sits down with Anet Julius, Director of Professional Practice, Nursing & Health Professions, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN to reflect on compassionate leadership. We travel with Anet as she reflects on exper...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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45:31
