Emergency-room nightmares

Emergency-room nightmares spur calls for action

A homeless man and double amputee,
died after sitting 34 hours in a Winnipeg emergency room

Reusing Syringes

A hospital in Lloydminster, Sask., has been reusing syringes to inject medication into intravenous lines, a practice that recently raised widespread concern in Alberta.

A common practice?

Syringe reuse for IV lines not just in High Prairie: nurses union


Respect for patients?

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At one time surgery staff washed up after
all the surgeries were completed.
Why wash up before? Surgery is a messy, dirty business!

A guide to the Hippocratic Oath

When I asked my medical students to name famous doctors in the history of medicine, their first answer was Harold Shipman, the GP who murdered hundreds of patients.

Man dead 'for some time' in Winnipeg ER before staff alerted

Judge recommends more legal funding
for family of Brian Sinclair in inquest

Is this a clear demonstration on the effectiveness of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's (WRHA) review of its approach to patients harmed as a result of breakdowns in the provision of care provided to the population it serves?

Medical errors killing
 up to 24,000 
Canadians a year

That's more than 2 every hour!

Nearly a Quarter of Canadians Report
a Preventable Adverse Event
in Own Care or That of a Family Member
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Man's death in Winnipeg ER 'preventable'
chief medical examiner

A man waited 34 hours in the
Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre emergency room,
but died without getting treatment.

Ottawa's ER's are more compassionate?

'A disgrace'So WE WAITED AROUND 17 HOURS to see a doctor for 7 minutes

Do no harm

Discussions after Harm in the Healthcare Setting

“ If you take my pen and say you are sorry
and don’t give me back my pen,
nothing has happened.”
– attributed to Bishop Desmond Tutu.


OOPS, Sorry!

How Hospitals are Killing ER Patients

Quick harvest of infant hearts incites debate

"Cases raise touchy ethical question: When to declare organ donors dead?"

ETHICAL?

Earlier harvesting of hearts

stirs ethics debate

ETHICAL?

Doctors facing 'five-year MOTs (relicensing)'

"The government committed itself to introducing a system of relicensing the UK's 150,000 doctors last year to test their basic competence as a medic."

They have a year and a half to get it right!

"Written laws are like spider's webs;
they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor,
but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful."
(Anacharsis--Scythian Philosopher...600 B.C.)

Ontario called on to improve nursing home conditions

"Disgraceful conditions in the province's nursing homes"

Vast majority of Toronto's nursing homes cited
for failing provincial standards