Heroic Medicine

Advocates join fight to sue pathologist

The Association in Defence for the Wrongfully Convicted has been granted intervenor status to assist in petition to sue forensic pathologist

Court makes man pay for life-saving surgery

A simple choice.
Die of liver cancer within six months or treatment overseas.

OHIP does not owe man his life

Pressure builds on OHIP over foreign surgery
Advocate calls for new standards
after court upholds `disgraceful' denial of payment

RateMDs.com

Patients rate doctors on website

RateMDs.com Receives its 50,000th Doctor Rating

Doctors cry foul over anonymous rating website

Is it effective to use the CPSO to handle a complaint?
Click here to see an example.

Does this post (click here) also apply to the ethics
that Canadian doctors hold dear?


Call for faith-based health services
In an ideal world doctors would ask about a patient's beliefs
not so that they can be categorised
but because it might be important for the patient in their illness.

New rules to govern health workers?

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Boost for patients' rights

New rules to govern health workers

Sounds good doesn't it?

Will it be effective?

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!
Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho


Maybe our trust will be renewed in the tooth fairy!
Law makes it easier to complain
but critics say it doesn't go far enough


Pathologists accountable
for their mistakes?

Questions raised on elderly care

Questions have been raised after claims that a hospital consultant told an inquest patients were dying "all the time" of dehydration.

GMC fights for regulatory powers

The General Medical Council (GMC)
has broadly welcomed a shake up in doctor regulation,
but it has objected to some of the proposals put forward.


With a clearly defined problem area,
the Shipman Inquiry, there was progress?

Change will occur.
Will it be effective?
CPSO????

Medicines sending thousands to hospital

Study finds 25% of admissions due to side effects or prescription errors

Chemo drug overdose death
May 8, 2007

Italy examining hospital deaths

BBC NEWS

Italy is investigating allegations that as many as 90 people a day die
in the country's hospitals
due to medical malpractice and organisational errors.

This couldn't happen in Canada!
Canadian Health Professionals value their patients
too much for it to happen here?

You're not sure?
CLICK HERE

Redefining when life stops

Controversy over redefining when life stops
"Proposal to permit organ donation after cardiac death divides doctors"

Is the Canadian health care system ready for donation after cardiac death? A note of caution

Is this an exampleclick here of the reliability of a death diagnosis
following diagnosed/presumed cardiac arrest?

Draft policy would give Manitoba docs power to stop treatment