Broadcaster was victim
of body parts thieves

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen'

This couldn't happen here in Canada‽

Broadcaster was victim
of body parts thieves

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen'

This couldn't happen here in Canada‽

Patients fear exposure to tainted tissue

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Surgeon death rates in spotlight:

"the public had a right to know
and was perfectly capable of understanding"‽

BBC NEWS | England | North Yorkshire | Professor accused of misconduct

I wonder if the current exercise before a Fitness to Practise Panel
will initiate the end of the current medical ethic,
“You don't blow the whistle on colleagues and they don't on you”.
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus‽

Would you believe that there's a Canadian connection‽

Status quo preserved‽

Here's a bit of an update
January 20, 2006

Doctor training is being undermined
by a lack of dead bodies to study

BBC NEWS | Health | Medical training 'bodies threat'

In Canada can a reasonably responsible citizen,
Ontario citizen that is, reconcile this autopsy consent -

I am the legal custodian of the body of the late _________________________________
and hereby authorize the representatives of the hospital to conduct a post mortem examination of the body of the said deceased and of its tissues. In accordance with the Human Tissues Gift Act. 1971. I hereby also give consent for the retention of such organs as are considered appropriate for medical education, scientific research and therapeutic purposes.

With this autopsy protocol?

The protocol is as follows:

1. Following the completion of the autopsy any tissue which is not retained for further gross and microscopic evaluation is returned to the body.

2. Retained organs are kept until the report of the post-mortem examination is complete (usually approximately 3 to 4 months). At this time those organs are incinerated.

3. Small representative tissue sections of each organ are kept for a period of one year. The tissue is subsequently incinerated.

4. Rarely, organs which demonstrate unusual or particularly striking pathology are kept on the long term within our department and are used for teaching purposes.

In case you are misiterpreting "incinerated" with "cremated" a request for clarification will eleborate that the organs would be incinerated with used surgical sponges and other medical waste. Respect?

I wonder if this is why donations are decreasing?

Three in 10 Canadians report medical errors: survey

look here

and

here

The Observer | UK News |
Try saying sorry, NHS doctors told

With the slow progress here, Canada might advance to this level in the next 50 to 100 years!

Being open - patient safety incidents with patients and their carers

Parents accept doctor's damages

This is an important update relating to an earlier post about the circumstances of the tragic death of little Robbie Powell.

Click here to view the earlier post.

Super Yvette's Home Page
"I have aplastic anaemia and urgently need a bone marrow transplant."

BBC NEWS | Health | Doctors 'fear criminal charges'

Maybe this, European Court of Human Rights decision, should be kept in mind.

"Whilst it was arguable that doctors had a duty not to falsify medical records under the common law (Sir Donaldson MR’s “duty of candour”), before Powell v Boladz there was no binding decision of the courts as to the existence of such a duty. As the law stands now, however, doctors have no duty to give the parents of a child who died as a result of their negligence a truthful account of the circumstances of the death, nor even to refrain from deliberately falsifying records."

The decision can be accessed from this page searching for
"decision" and "application no. 45305/99" to see -

DECISION
AS TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF
Application no. 45305/99
by William and Anita POWELL
against the United Kingdom

Intoxication while on call doesn't really happen!
Does it?

BBC NEWS | Health | Intoxication 'rife among doctors'

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TheStar.com - Province to revamp doctors' discipline

Maybe we will be subjected to something like this
Doctors' fears over GP 'league tables'

SNAFU
Sound Familiar?

HEALTH CARE NEGLECT

A request for public support.

BBC NEWS | England | Southern Counties | Doctor admits hitting young girl
Doctor admits hitting young girl

Sally Clark: Home Page

Sally Clark - victim of a miscarriage of justice

Court work ban for Clark doctor

Sir Roy Meadow struck off by GMC
Friday, 15 July, 2005

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Toronto Star
Family: Probe death of dad, 71
They question his treatment

Justice‽