Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Teresa Chan, HBSc, BEd, MD, FRCPC, MHPE, DRCPSC (Clin. Ed.), MBA, about navigating a career in medicine after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis during residency.

In this conversation, Dr. Chan reflects on how her experience as a physician-patient has shaped the way she teaches, practises and leads. She speaks openly about the moments her own symptoms didn't match the textbook descriptions she had learned, and what that revealed about how medicine listens to patients. She also shares her perspective on accommodations in medical training and practice, the importance of physicians seeing themselves as people first, and why disclosing a chronic illness, rather than carrying it silently, so often changes everything.

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with Jon Novick, MDCM, FRCPC about his work in physician health and his own lived experience as a physician with a chronic illness.

In this conversation, he reflects on what it means to be both a physician and a patient, the cultural forces within medicine that make it difficult to seek and receive care, and the unique challenges of treating, or being treated by, a colleague. Drawing on decades of experience and his own journey with inflammatory bowel disease, Dr. Novick speaks candidly about minimization, self-compassion, and why the standard we apply to our patients deserves to be the same standard we apply to ourselves.

Dr. Jon S. Novick, MDCM, FRCPC is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and addiction medicine specialist with a private practice in Oakville, Ontario. He serves as Medical Director of the OMA Physician Health Program in Toronto, where his work focuses on physician health and well-being through education, advocacy, assessment, and connecting physicians with the support and resources they need.