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

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.

No right to 'play God'

Woman sues Toronto doctors for allegedly ignoring father's wishes to stay alive

Doctors accused of negligence or malpractice in the death of Second World War vet

Death of woman hospitalized for 'horrific' bedsore sparks criminal investigation

Woman died as a result of complications from untreated pressure ulcer

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Expert says pressure injuries such as bedsores are preventable

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Boy comes back to life after parents sign papers to donate his organs

Boy, 13, who fractured his skull in seven places is hailed as a miracle child for 'coming back to life' after doctors predicted he would be a 'vegetable' and his parents signed papers to donate his organs                                   click here

Alfie Evans and Alder Hey?

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Trenton McKinley defied all odds.
After the 13-year-old boy was severely injured in a dune buggy accident, his parents made the difficult decision to donate his organs following days of him being apparently brain dead, according to Fox 10. But after the papers were signed, he miraculously regained consciousness.

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Alfie Evans - Alder Hey Children's Hospital

TOT'S BATTLE Who is Alfie Evans, how long has he been at Alder Hey hospital and who are the baby’s parents Kate James and Tom Evans?
The child's life support has been switched off after his parents lost the latest in a string of legal battles


'We were told he wouldn't last five minutes and here we are 36 hours later. He looks comfortable. He looks chilled. And that's what's the most important thing right now.'

What Is Being Hidden...?

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Career options in the modern world

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update UK time
At this moment, 5:40pm on Wednesday 25th April, Alfie Evans is still clinging to life, and the Court of Appeal is deciding whether Tom and Kate can take their son to Rome.
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update Apr 26, 2018
Launching campaign for 'Alfie's Law' to give parents more say
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Nearly, but not quite the same in Canada.
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
R.I.P.

Alder Hey organs scandal

1 in 18 Canadian hospital patients experience harm from preventable errors

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Surprised?

Stroke mistaken for drunkenness

Inuvialuit woman says uncle's stroke mistaken for drunkenness

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N.W.T. orders review of case after niece says stroke victim was treated as drunk

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Medical errors may be 3rd leading cause of death

Is it surprising that death certificates do not record deaths resulting from inadequate patient care‽

 But hospital handovers aren't risky.
Are they? Really‽

GTA hospital didn't notify police about allegations seniors had been sexually assaulted

When asked, Did you notify police, did you file a report?
They said, No. We are not mandated to.

Really‽

The Coalition for HealthCARE and Conscience

 Canadians shouldn't have to compromise their conscience.

In Canada, everyone has the right to their faith and their conscience. The coming legalization of physician-assisted suicide will put healthcare practitioners and facilities in a compromised position.

Those who cannot support assisted suicide or euthanasia because of their conscience, faith and commitment to the Hippocratic Oath could be forced to compromise their convictions. They shouldn't have to.

 Our Conscience Rights Matter.

Sign your name to show your support for individual and institutional rights:

http://www.canadiansforconscience.ca/

Hippocratic Oath

I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this contract:

To hold him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to be a partner in life with him, and to fulfill his needs when required; to look upon his offspring as equals to my own siblings, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or contract; and that by the set rules, lectures, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to students bound by this contract and having sworn this Oath to the law of medicine, but to no others.

I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.

I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.

In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art.

I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft.

Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men, whether they are free men or slaves.

Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private.

So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully and the practice of my art, gaining the respect of all men for all time. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate.

Translated by Michael North, National Library of Medicine, 2002.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html

“Brain death” apparently not so dead as some would like

A 14-year-old girl wounded in a deadly shooting spree in Michigan this
weekend was initially pronounced brain dead at the hospital before she
squeezed her mother's hand and was rushed to surgery, her family told
authorities.

She is now in critical condition and "fighting for her life," her family said.

The teen, who was shot in a Kalamazoo Cracker Barrel parking lot
Saturday, was pronounced brain dead shortly after arriving at Bronson
Methodist Hospital, Michigan State Police Lt. Dale Hinz told ABC News
today. 

Her family told the lieutenant that an hour or two later, the hospital
was in the process of preparing her organs for donation when the girl
squeezed her mother’s hand, he said. 

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Hospital mistakes that should never happen

Wishful thinking‽

Brian Sinclair's death preventable?

The inquest into the death of 45-year-old double amputee Brian Sinclair in a hospital waiting room in Winnipeg has found it was not homicide and doesn't require a public inquiry.

See CBC article Dec 12, 2014

Inquest report here and here

A shortcoming of self-regulation?

Take another look at this recent post.

Dangers of pharmacists' alert fatigue.

When I saw this article, it isn't just a pharmacist trouble area but that of doctors as well.

As one's age becomes more "golden" the number of medications on the shelf seems to increase at an alarming rate. This make one wonder if there there are adverse drug interactions that we should pro-actively investigate on our own!

An update?

Jan 19, 2015

Reversal sought in California girls' brain-death diagnosis

Tests show Jahi McMath has brain activity

Family seeks to have brain-death ruling overturned, girl declared alive

The family of Jahi McMath posted two videos on YouTube they say show the teen responding to her mother’s voice. In the first video, Jahi moves her foot, and in the second, she moves her hand.

When routine surgeries go wrong

Death determination debate rages on in science, medicine

Uncertainty influences disconnecting life support, organ donation

Tue Oct 14, 2014

Removing the carpets seems to have improved hospital cleanliness

WOW

Stephen Harper chided Canadians for not listening to scientific evidence

A guest post

I met a mother at HDH on Friday who was getting her 1 year old baby an x-ray to have his lungs checked for possible pneumonia.  He was COVERED in bruises, I have never seen bruising on a child this severe, even at the cancer clinic during the almost three years I sat there with my daughter while she had cancer treatments.  Bruising was a common side effect of chemo, low platelets were almost the norm :(  I didn't ask this mom what happened, but she eventually told me his story.  Her baby had his MMR vaccine 24 hours ago and developed severe thrombocytopenia, by the way the pneumonia (not a minor health concern) is a result of the thrombocytopenia.

According to "The official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics" For vaccines routinely administered at 12 to 19 months of age, there was a significant association of  ITP with MMR (IRR, 5.48, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.61, 18.64).

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/01/04/peds.2011-1111.full.pdf

" We found no increased risk for most of the vaccines in the childhood series, an unsurprising finding of an increased risk of ITP after MMR, and, less expected, we also found possible increased risk of ITP for
Hep A, VAR, and T dap in older children."

I am so tired of people touting the wisdom of vaccines as the responsible and hounourable thing a parent and dutiful citizen would do.. not to mention for the greater good!   I am a mother who watched helplessly as my child had seizures after his vaccination at age 4, not being able to rouse him and rushing him to hospital.  If vaccine reactions are so rare and harmless, my child has been harmed by vaccination maybe a fluke? . I know of other children who have been harmed by vaccinations another fluke?? and I keep meeting more mothers with similar stories, just more flukes???  Am I just destined to meet all the children who have experienced the extremely rare and serious cases of vaccine reactions?  I suppose the DIE hard vaccinate or else folks will chalk up my misadventures in vaccine reactions a complete and " indisputable " coincidence.  Oh and the coincidence is that all these rare cases reside in my neck of the woods?

Imagine being that mum waking up in the morning to find her child bruised and bleeding internally?

She told me, "The doctor said it was safe"

Medication mix-up

Man given different patient’s medications by mistake

Medical debate over defining death

Medical debate over defining death has implications for organ donors

Doctors need to harvest organs within two hours after the heart stops or they may deteriorate beyond use.

HARVEST! ?‽

The standards for defining death in Canada vary so much that the hospital where a dying person ends up may affect when they are declared dead.

Are there standards?


Paralysed stroke victim experiences every patient's worst nightmare as he hears doctors discussing whether to donate his organs but couldn't speak out

3 April 2014




Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD)
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