Keeping Canada Alive

A three-month-old has open-heart surgery; a veteran whose neck was broken tries to defy the odds and walk again; a check-up from an unconventional high-tech assistant; and a brave elderly woman navigates through grief as she cares for her husband with Alzheimer's disease.

The non-stop day of a warm-hearted full-service GP; a cardiologist works hard to find options for a patient diagnosed with heart failure; a woman with MS finds out whether her disease has progressed.

An unconventional palliative care doctor helps a terminal cancer patient make a decision; a man with a recurring brain tumour has surgery for a fourth time; a teen has an operation to fix the damaged cartilage in her hip; and a youngster receives a new prosthetic arm.

A cancer patient undergoes breast surgery; hope for a diabetic who lost part of his foot; a psychiatrist administers electroconvulsive therapy to a patient; and a mother faces her fears as she prepares to deliver.

During a double surgery, a daughter donates her kidney to her father; a deaf baby gets her cochlear implant activated and hears her mother's voice for the first time; and a woman with metastasized colon cancer gets a pinpoint-accurate radiation treatment from a high-tech robot.

A single mother waits alone as doctors prepare her premature baby for surgery; a high school athlete who weighs 400 pounds hopes to change his life with bariatric surgery; a Cree doctor wages her own battle against Canada's First Nations diabetes epidemic; and HIV/AIDS patients get an emotional lift from man's best friend.