Next to a wood fire and with a beer in hand, I listened as he recounted his truly remarkable career. It was a story of how our community was founded from humble beginnings by family physicians. Family physicians who manned everything from maternity, to anaesthetics to the emergency department at Peace Arch Hospital. The story of how a small single doctor practice became Crescent Beach Medical practice and of how our community started one of the first Divisions of Family Practice in BC. As the interview hit 50 minutes and I considered ending it, I was drawn in once more by his passion for his life long anti-nuclear advocacy.

During my podcast conversation with Dr. Susan Lee, we talk about the Pathways Referral Tracker project. I found this an inspiring conversation about how as physicians we can make change happen in our healthcare system, that solutions can be formed through our leadership, both personal and collaborative. I was inspired by the ownership that Dr. Lee took of a problem that affected us in all our offices. It is a great example of how the Division and its members can solve a local problem that ultimately leads to province wide change.

Dr. Rogan Thavarajah interviews Dr. Kasandra Harriman, a family physician and maternity doctor at the Peace Arch Hospital Maternity Unit, about her passion for her work there.

Dr. Rogan Thavarajah interviews Dr. Lourens Perold about his time in Liberia working as a physician.