CPSI launches first-ever Canadian Disclosure Guidelines

Guidelines aim to cut medical errors

Another view?

Not right to remain silent about errors, medical guidelines say

This would be an extraordinary, dramatic change from the apparent current practice of cover up with detailed all encompassing meaningless explanations. One can expect the word "appropriate" to be used liberally in a "double entendre" fashion, in an attempt to confound the gullible. Here's an example!?

MD 'secrets' will go public

Malpractice judgments will be posted on College's website, thanks to Star probe

Ethics Honesty
As understood by the public!?
As understood by the
Health Professions Colleges!?
Self Regulation!!!!!!!

W-FIVE Investigates the Secretive World of Medicine and the Toronto Doctor Dozens of Women Claim Injured Them

W-FIVE: Right to Know
Streaming video of the program on this link
Updated Fri. Feb. 29 2008 11:13 AM ET
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Patient fired by her doctor

Equal Justice For All?

Premier's fan accused of death threats

And is the following an example of consistency in the application of justice?

If an organization repeatedly reiterates what they know will be interpreted as a threat, then is it not logical to assume that they have knowingly given the threat? Isn't a threat to cause harm or death a criminal offence in most of Canada?

Maybe the perceived difference is due to the fact that the second example deals with the exemplary ethical, self regulating, law respecting honest medical profession?

Probably so!

The Current Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario is clearly an investigation, of a possible aberration, of the profession's ethics?
Maybe the "Shipman Inquiry", in another jurisdiction, is another example?

Doctors 'must own up to blunders'

"A new culture of honesty and openness should see such patients receive a personal apology from the doctor concerned and a detailed explanation of what went wrong"

One wonders when signs of this "NEW CULTURE" will become evident!

A new culture‽


A continuing culture‽

Sick Kids staff shocked over pathologist's work habits

"A secretary who worked alongside Dr. Charles Smith for years says she found a bag of dried human tissue, a dish containing bones and a child's hospital bracelet during one of her frequent searches of the pathologist's ramshackle office."

Justice is equal for all in Canada?
Looking at this previous post would make you wonder.
Click here

Hospital 'fines' for patient harm

"The taxpayer should not have to foot the bill for poor care that resulted in longer stays in hospital"

Maybe the idea is catching!
See Aug 19, 2007 post

Medicare Says It Won’t Cover Hospital Errors

The new policy raises the possibility of changes in medical practice
as doctors hew more closely to clinical guidelines.

The hospital where octuplets were born in January
has been fined for a second time
for failing to protect the family's medical privacy.
17 July 2009

Signals missed as errors piled up

Lack of oversight, shortage of pathologists contributed to `miscarriages of justice'

Lack of oversight‽

Police ordered to release secret papers

Kingston force feared embarrassing officers


Lawsuit dropped against police


Pathologists directed to 'think dirty'
January 17, 2008

KGH autopsy on child rife with errors: inquiry

Common Standard of Practice (Care) ‽

Autopsy team mistakenly destroyed brain
LINK EXPIRED SEE
DR. CHARLES SMITH INQUIRY
PAGE 80 ARTICLE 238

And thenA previous example that met CPSO standards?



Charles Smith Inquiry
Let’s not lose sight of the real issue


Cairns comes under fire at Smith inquiry
Nov 27, 2007

Smith 'sorry' for autopsy errors

"The doctor at the heart of an inquiry into pediatric forensic pathology in Ontario has apologized for the 'mistakes' he's made in his work."

Disgraced pathologist 'sorry' for multiple mistakes

Was the quality of his work consistent with the standard of care/practice expected of professionals, in this field of practice, by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO)?

A previous example of a standard expected by the CPSO?

“If we do not
hear,
see,
or speak evil,
we ourselves
shall be spared all evil‽"

SYSTEMIC FAILINGS‽

Former chief coroner says he's sorry
for miscarriages of justice involving Dr. Charles Smith
Dec 3, 2007

Next mea culpa?