“I got all those opioids from one doctor. He cared about me a lot, but he didn’t know how to deal with me."

"My goal in life is mental health."

"For me, as a daughter, it’s the hardest thing to watch your own mother in chronic pain and you can’t do anything."

"My mom has a chronic pain. She cries daily."

"The challenge in Canada is the failure to acknowledge the impact of racism or white supremacist logic in health care."

"Providers downplay the role of racism."

"I kept wondering what was going on in my patient's lives. That led to my research."

"I wanted to work in community clinics."

"I had the operation, but it turned out I didn’t have cancer. I was very angry."

"It turned out I didn't have cancer."

I said to myself, ‘If this is what the rest of my life is going to be like, I am not going to waste it.’

Disability is not stopping me from living.

"Our region is putting more effort into health promotion through social media.”

"We're doing more through social media."

"I’ve given up apologizing. I agree that this isn’t good care, and ask patients to complain because I'm not having any luck."

"Overcrowding makes us cut corners in emerg."

I think the private system I am using is one that everybody should have in terms of the quality of health care.

I have been paying for private health care.

Placing Lloyd in long-term care is going to be, without a doubt, the most difficult decision I ever have to make.

Dementia is a horrible, cruel disease.

"After coming back from treating Ebola in Africa, I became frustrated with our bureaucracy."

"Treating Ebola changed me fundamentally."