When Dan Logans gastroenterologist asked him to have his next colonoscopy broadcast live on Facebook, he agreed right away. His mother had died of colon cancer and he thought it was the right thing to do.

The responsibility of caring for sick patients in busy hospitals can cause stress that leads to burnout and depression among doctors, but training adapted from military practices aims to boost Canadian physicians' resiliency.

Patients who deteriorate in hospital have gradual changes in heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs that can signal a crisis. One Hamilton hospital is using a computer program to flag these changes so that medical staff can intervene to save the patient before its too late.

Several pilot projects are in the works to test whether dispatching drones fitted with defibrillators in cardiac arrest cases could reduce response times and increase survival rates.