Canadian Health Care for Foreign Trained Professionals

As long wait times cause undue pain and suffering, Marketplace takes a hard look at why Canadians can't get the surgery they need.

The CBC’s Vik Adhopia describes the different types of health benefits refugee claimants get in Canada.

"Shot at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland, this documentary reveals the workings of a contemporary health-care facility. Accompanied by hospital staff, we travel through labs, pharmacies, supply rooms, operating theatres and patient rooms from the maternity ward to the morgue. As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portrait of the people whom the issues touch most closely."