Sunday, January 28, 2024
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Health care without conscience is a dangerous contradiction
After reading this CBC news article, "Health care without conscience is a dangerous contradiction", I remembered this Archdiocese of Kingston letter and its link for "THE COALITION FOR HEALTHCARE AND CONSCIENCE".
I thought that the article and the following are also complimentary on this topic.
"The Cizik School of Nursing at the University of Texas has created a REMI Platinum Award-winning 56.07 min documentary film that tells the grim cautionary tale of nurses who participated in the Holocaust and abandoned their professional ethics during the Nazi era. The 56-minute film, Caring Corrupted: the Killing Nurses of the Third Reich, casts a harsh light on nurses who used their professional skills to murder the handicapped, mentally ill and infirm at the behest of the Third Reich and directly participated in genocide."
The short documentary, Caring Corrupted, can be viewed on YouTube.
Conscience Rights
Federal Election 2021
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Caring Corrupted
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Churchill paraphrased Santayana when he said 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. '
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
We should pay attention to current events!
Looking at this current College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario web page, "Medical Assistance in Dying – Preliminary Consultation (http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=13129)" distresses me, when I read it with the events of the 1930s and 1940s still fresh in my mind.
The REMI Platinum Award-winning 56.07 min documentary film can be found on this page "Caring Corrupted: the Killing Nurses of the Third Reich (https://germanstudiescollaboratory.com/caring-corrupted-the-killing-nurses-of-the-third-reich/)" shows how medical professionals can be desensitised to killing!
Can't we learn from history?
Do we have to repeat the most vile?
Cultural problem?
Friday, April 09, 2021
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Public Health Research - Doctors Without Borders
"Tell Canada’s Minister of Health to take concrete steps to prioritize patient access over private profits:
Around the world, governments fund critically important medical research and development using public money — including more than $1 billion already committed by the Canadian government to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as diagnostic tests and medicines.
Publicly funded research has led to dramatic healthcare innovations. In Canada alone, researchers have used government funds to support the discovery of an Ebola vaccine, insulin, the cardiac pacemaker, and more.
Unfortunately, most countries — including Canada — rarely demand that the resulting health innovations be safeguarded for public health, or be made affordable and accessible to those who need them most.
In fact, these publicly funded vaccines, medicines, and health technologies are often sold to private companies, who then determine who receives access to them — and at what price.
Safeguards can make the difference"
Around the world, governments fund critically important medical research and development using public money — including more than $1 billion already committed by the Canadian government to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as diagnostic tests and medicines.
Publicly funded research has led to dramatic healthcare innovations. In Canada alone, researchers have used government funds to support the discovery of an Ebola vaccine, insulin, the cardiac pacemaker, and more.
Unfortunately, most countries — including Canada — rarely demand that the resulting health innovations be safeguarded for public health, or be made affordable and accessible to those who need them most.
In fact, these publicly funded vaccines, medicines, and health technologies are often sold to private companies, who then determine who receives access to them — and at what price.
This is unacceptable.
Safeguards can make the difference"
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Good faith or unfair attack? Saskatchewan appeal court to rule on nurse's Facebook posts
Judges will decide whether she had the right to comment on grandfather's health care
Wednesday, June 05, 2019
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Caregivers of elderly face stress, tears with scant support
'They feel alone. They feel depressed. They feel distressed,'
Many doctors don't trust caregivers, but here's why they should:
Thursday, April 18, 2019
As fewer patients sue their doctor, the rate of winning malpractice suits is dropping too | CBC News
" ...the CMPA has significant resources to support doctors in a legal fight. The association's most recent annual report from 2017 shows the CMPA holds $4.5 billion in assets.
But for patients who find it difficult to fund their own cases, many may be surprised to learn they are also indirectly funding the doctors' legal expenses."
Safe patient care will occur in a
culture of honesty, trust,
respect and open communication.
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