"I ended up in a wheelchair and was in a holding pattern waiting for a new drug – I had gone through every drug available."

"They said my disease wasn't serious enough."

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."

"We realized that Ebola was already in this large, crowded, poor city."

"We realized that Ebola was already there."

Before this, I kind of thought doctors and nurses were perfect.

There were a lot of “thank God” moments.

"There were lengthy waiting times to get to see the specialists. And they didn’t speak to each other."

It's hard to get a multifaceted examination.

"Max was nine months old when I picked him up. I knew pretty much right away that he was special."

A therapy dog has to be more than friendly.