White Coat, Black Art

Brian Goldman

Booking Overview

This is a weekly health and Canadian healthcare interview show hosted by an emergency physician, featuring conversations with medical professionals, patients, families, and healthcare innovators. Agencies could credibly pitch physicians, healthcare system leaders, clinical educators, patient advocates with compelling firsthand experiences, and experts developing practical healthcare improvements; booking difficulty is medium because the show favors authoritative subject-matter guests and strong real-world stories.

Metrics

Episodes: 58

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: Canada

YouTube: 621.0k subscribers

Instagram: 762.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

podcasting@cbc.ca

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Host

Brian Goldman - Emergency physician, medical journalist, author, and longtime CBC broadcaster known for reporting on healthcare and the experiences of patients and clinicians.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Licensed physicians and other healthcare professionals, clinical educators, healthcare innovators, system leaders, and patients or advocates with compelling firsthand experiences of Canadian healthcare.

Required Achievements:

Clinical or professional expertise in a healthcare specialty, Leadership or educational responsibility within a hospital or healthcare organization, Creation of a healthcare program, charity, or practical system improvement, Direct experience navigating significant healthcare access or treatment issues

Recent Guest Discussions

Fan-Wah Mang - Physician Burnout, Leaving Family Practice, And Training Doctors For Sustainable Careers.

Ned Bell - Improving Hospital Meals, Patient Health, And Environmentally Sustainable Food Programs.

Keith Sakata - Ai-related Mental Health Risks, Chatbot Sycophancy, And The Phenomenon Described As AI Psychosis.

Nicholas Sparrow - Volunteer Emergency Response, Rural And Remote Medical Care, And Critical Roadside Interventions.

Rick Zarnett - Knee And Hip Replacement Access, Surgical Wait Times, And Improving The Healthcare System.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Medicine, Patient Care, Health Policy, Physician Wellness

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

White Coat, Black Art

She's a doctor with MS. Why is that a problem?

September 18, 2026

Dr. Erin Norris used to hide her multiple sclerosis to preserve her career as a rheumatologist. She was following an unspoken rule in medicine: either you practice at 100%, or you can’t practice at all. Yet one in five Canadian MDs self-identifies as having a disability. Now, Dr. Norris has rebuilt a career that works for her – all while challenging an ableist medical culture that pushes doctors with disabilities out the door.

Why U.S. nurses are moving north

September 11, 2026

Minnesota nurse Shane Tyson was frustrated by patients going without care because they couldn’t afford medication, and shaken by an ICE arrest at his hospital. Meanwhile, Canada needs nurses – and when Tyson saw B.C. was recruiting, he made the move to Nanaimo. Local volunteers Tod and Jocelyn Maffin have built an online community helping health-care workers like Shane move to Canada.

Becoming the doctor her community needs

September 04, 2026

Gurleen Kaur Chahal is one of the inaugural students at Toronto Metropolitan University’s new Peel Region medical school, designed to serve the area’s diverse population. In this encore episode, she shares her determination to be part of the solution for the kinds of struggles her multigenerational Punjabi household has faced accessing care.

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