Emergency room visit strips man, 81, of dignity

Patient went AWOL under nurses' noses

Is this "Standard of Care" acceptable?
Corrective action will be taken!?
Definitively!

Pathology errors spark concern over hospital laboratories

Is this a crisis!?‽

Maybe the accepted "Standard of Practice" that has evolved from "Self Regulation" is a contributing factor to the crisis‽

SELF REGULATING? - SELF SERVING?

Samson and Goliath,
Who will be the winner?

Brain death diagnosis

An organ harvest was begun, that was until he moved his arm.

Four months after he was declared brain dead
and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant,
Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good."

Man Makes “Miraculous” Recovery from Brain Death

When brain death isn't terminal
The case of a revived 'brain-dead' accident victim raises some disturbing issues
Apr 13, 2008


Brain Death is the irreversible cessation of all brain function including that of the brain stem.
There is no possibility of recovery in this situation and once brain death has been confirmed,
the patient is legally dead.
Reassuring?

Legally dead?
Actually dead?
Medically dead?
Maybe dead?

Haleigh Poutre speaks


DECLARED BRAIN DEAD
PARENTS REFUSED TO EUTHANIZE
WOKE UP FROM COMA

the charles smith blog

"An Extraordinary Development in Canada:
Three Inquiries Based on Flawed Pathology In One Country At The Same Time;
Crisis?"

Not really an extraordinary development.
Pathology standards, as well as all other medical standards,
appear to have been consistent for years.
Is this another example?

Father credited for acquittal in baby's death
April 4, 2008

Saturday, April 5, 2008

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