Mistaken mastectomy probe

Pathologist suspended while tests reviewed


I wonder if the speed at which recommended safety procedures are being implemented are a good indication of the value that the medical profession's colleges et all places on their patients' well being?

How long have the recommendations for Surgical Checklists been ignored or ridiculed?

Province probes mistaken surgeries
The Ontario government has launched an external review into a number of botched medical procedures

This should give us as much comfort as
"Bill 31, Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004".
We need patient protection.



Fears grip Windsor
in wake of medical mistakes
Is the current system, in practical terms,
self regulating or self serving?

If there is any reason for doubt,
is that the reason we now have fear?

LIVES AT RISK!

NHS hospitals ignore patient safety orders
Watchdog says failure by trusts to comply with alerts is 'unacceptable'

Common sense WHO guidelines are disregarded worldwide?!‽ millspeninsula ex

Surgical checklist

"A simple safety check during major operations could prevent millions of people around the world from suffering surgical complications and save the lives of thousands of patients, according to a new study published today."

WHO surgical safety checklist
and implementation manual
click here

Why has the Medical "Profession" apparently been so determined not to adapt a time proven procedure that has been perfected by real "professionals" in another public service, AIRCREW, in the military and airline passenger and air freight industry. Maybe, it might be that an error in one profession, normally only harms the recipient of the service, while in the other, both the recipient and the service provider are at risk when errors occur?


Look at this previous observation!


The lessons pilots can teach surgeons
Debrief sessions, like those carried out by pilots, could reduce surgery errors
24 January 2009

A man waited 34 hours in the emergency room, but died without getting treatment

Judge recommends more legal funding
for family of Brian Sinclair in inquest



First Nations demand health-care inquiry

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Woman's death was 'gross failure'

"Gross failures and neglect contributed to the death of a grandmother-of-five after a routine procedure went wrong at a Birmingham hospital, a coroner ruled."

Hospital gave fatal dose to woman, 64

Coroner says neglect contributed
to death of woman given medical product
10 times too strong during routine procedure

“Cover-up” by doctors!?

Probe into boy's death moves step closer
Wednesday, December 09, 2009, 08:47

A PUBLIC inquiry into the death of a 10-year-old boy from a treatable condition moved a step closer today.


"a long-demanded public inquiry into the 1990 death
of 10-year-old Robbie Powell
from a treatable condition may now go ahead."




Robbie Powell
NHS
BEHIND THE HEADLINES


Action against Medical Accidents
(AvMA)


A CHARITY yesterday won its bid to challenge
the General Medical Council’s decision
not to investigate the death of a 10-year-old boy.

The General Medical Council (GMC)
faces a judicial review over claims it failed
to investigate a boy's death nearly 19 years ago.



Alleged forging of medical records




GMC faces legal challenge over “liar’s charter”
23rd, February 2009

GMC SLAMS DOOR ON JUSTICE
IN CASE OF ROBBIE POWELL
AND ALLEGED COVER UP BY DOCTORS
24th November 2009

Record must be made every time a patient is harmed or dies while receiving treatment

The Observer, Sunday 6 December 2009

"Hospitals, GPs' surgeries and all other healthcare providers
will in future have to log every time a patient is
harmed or dies while receiving treatment."

But, is this a loophole
that needs to be looked after?

A European Court of Human Rights decision.
"Whilst it was arguable that doctors had a duty not to falsify medical records under the common law (Sir Donaldson MR’s “duty of candour”), before Powell v Boladz there was no binding decision of the courts as to the existence of such a duty. As the law stands now, however, doctors have no duty to give the parents of a child who died as a result of their negligence a truthful account of the circumstances of the death, nor even to refrain from deliberately falsifying records."
The decision can be accessed from this page searching for "decision" and "application no. 45305/99" to see -

Protecting its Own

Updated Sat. Nov. 29 2008

In March, 2008, W-FIVE aired "Right to Know" -- an investigation into medical secrecy and the case of Toronto gynecologist, Dr. Richard Austin.

After Harm


Good physicians know the bad ones in their midst. Why don't they point fingers?


"The college has no jurisdiction
over Dr. Austin.
He is no longer a member,"
Thu Dec 03 2009

Deadly hospital gave itself top marks

An example of the reliability of SELF REGULATION‽


Eleven more NHS hospitals at centre of safety scandal
Sunday 29 November 2009

Daughter saves mother, 80, left by doctors to starve

Alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

The daughter of an 80-year-old woman from East Sussex
has criticised doctors for using treatment guidelines
which she says left her mother to die.

The NHS introduces euthanasia by stealth

Surviving Hospitals‽

Wouldn't a Patient Advocate committed to pro-actively guiding patients and their family members through the medical maze be a blessing, here in Ontario?

Bill C-384 to be Debated in House of Commons
A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Canada
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