Why getting sick at a hospital means you need an ambulance

Unbelievable!

Yes it is unbelievable, but sadly it's true.

Ontario Health Study

Ontario scientists launch

“largest health study in the world”

Ontario has expertise in many different types of endeavor.

EHealth Ontario comes to mind.

Ontario HST

sex education

on and on

Sites of possible complimentary interest

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Self Regulation

Is this the result we should expect?

http://www.arrogantworms.com/music/the-prescription-drug-song/

Preposterous, slanderous depiction of an honourable profession!

Does this article tend to vindicate the Arrogant Worms' lyrics?

Revealed: NHS fails to curb lethal painkiller errors

Exclusive: 1,300 dosage mistakes leave three dead as research finds patient safety directives not being met

Thursday 12 August 2010

see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

Oh, isn't it remarkable at how confident we can be with the effectiveness of the self regulation that the medical profession has achieved world wide?

Are patients safer?

Patient group aims to lift veil on medical errors

Each year, medical errors kill almost 24,000 Canadians, yet many patients say they struggle getting hospital staff to admit the mistakes. That why they've formed a new group calling for that to change.

That's nearly one needless death every 20 minutes!


Patients for Patient Safety Canada




Patients for Patient Safety Canada Launches Nationally



An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002

That's nearly one needless death every 3 minutes!

DOCTORS ACCOUNTABLE‽ ! ?

Something to think about



COLLEGE QUIETLY DROPS INVESTIGATION
OF EX- CHIEF CORONER JAMES YOUNG
ON AGREEMENT HE WON'T RE-APPLY

Inquiry may be held into boy's death in 1990

An example of the swift response
to clear up ethical questions dealing with the
MEDICAL PROFESSIONS?

NHS blunder changed organ donors' wishes

Families allowed organs to be donated,
after being given wrong information
on what consent had been given

Makes one feel real comfortable with Ontario's,

Fair Notice

"An important change in how organ and tissue donation decisions are registered in Ontario.

Now, when you register or renew your health card at a ServiceOntario Office, you will be advised that only a “YES” to organ and tissue donation is being collected and stored in the OHIP database.",

doesn't it?


Organ transplants: Relative ethics
Examining the ethics of transplants
21 April 2010

Nurse is found guilty of misconduct

16 April 2009
A nurse who secretly filmed for a Panorama programme exposing neglect of elderly patients in a hospital has been struck off the register with immediate effect.

It sometimes takes a few moments for common sense to prevail?

12 October 2009
A nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has won her battle to return to work.

22 March 2010
Nurse Margaret Haywood blew the whistle on shocking care of elderly patients in Sussex by filming undercover. She was struck off, but the high court reinstated her last month.

The sacred ethic of the health professions;
You don't blow the whistle on colleagues and they don't on you!,
RIGHT?

Panel to probe Windsor hospitals

I don't find any comfort in this exercise!
I remember the expressions
Self regulation
Self serving

Are Windsor Hospitals really a perceived aberration, in that they perform less properly than other hospitals in other centers?

Grieving Windsor family seeks answers


Rebecca Walberg on Brian Sinclair's
death in the ER and a
Manitoba Health cover-up
S.O.P.
Medical Profession's
Standard Operating Procedures