How Hospitals are Killing ER Patients

Quick harvest of infant hearts incites debate

"Cases raise touchy ethical question: When to declare organ donors dead?"

ETHICAL?

Earlier harvesting of hearts

stirs ethics debate

ETHICAL?

Doctors facing 'five-year MOTs (relicensing)'

"The government committed itself to introducing a system of relicensing the UK's 150,000 doctors last year to test their basic competence as a medic."

They have a year and a half to get it right!

"Written laws are like spider's webs;
they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor,
but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful."
(Anacharsis--Scythian Philosopher...600 B.C.)

Ontario called on to improve nursing home conditions

"Disgraceful conditions in the province's nursing homes"

Vast majority of Toronto's nursing homes cited
for failing provincial standards

Much more than mere incidents

Doctor Charles Smith Seen As Part Of A
Larger Pathology And Medicare Crisis In Canada
In Globe And Mail History:
"Much More Than Mere Incidents"

Access to Information

Stop The Press:
Part Two; Access to Information Request:

A very informative Blog post!

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