Archives 2008

Unsympathetic and hurried doctors and nurses with attitudes that were part of a delayed diagnosis and severe pain to pancreatic cancer patient Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge, Fraser Health

Patient: Klaus Friedrich Dorr, of Port Moody, BC. During the summer of 2008 , complained of pain throughout abdomen and severe in lower abdomen. Had many tests run through family doctor, but made several trips to emergency when pain became severe. Was checked out but the attitudes of doctors were

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Charities admit fundraising mess Sick Kids, World Vision both vow to stop commission-based canvassing via third party

Two prominent Canadian charities – Sick Kids Foundation and World Vision Canada – have admitted to using a discredited fundraising technique and are moving swiftly to clean up their act. Each has been using commission-based techniques frowned upon in the charity world because they can lead to aggressive tactics. When

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Man ‘dead for hours’ in Winnipeg ER Winnipeg Regional Health

WINNIPEG – A 45-year-old man who died in a Winnipeg hospital emergency department after sitting there for 34 hours was known to medical staff, health officials confirmed Tuesday morning. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority chief medical officer Brock Wright would not confirm or deny the man suffered from a mental illness

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Sikhs fund Canada hospital, now pushed to fight it William Osler Hospital – Brampton

Peel Region’s Sikh community played a key role in establishing Brampton’s gleaming new hospital. It has played an equally major role in the troubled institution’s first major crisis. BRAMPTON: The opening of Brampton Civic Hospital was supposed to be an occasion for celebration, especially among the city’s burgeoning Sikh community.

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Doctors’ college finds problems after complaint about Winnipeg hospital Concordia Hospital

A review by the Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons has found “system issues” after a woman complained about the care her 70-year-old mother received at Concordia Hospital in 2005. Tracey Weber says her mother was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and prescribed antibiotics when she arrived at the

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Doctors file complaint against Montreal’s Sacré Coeur Hospital

Emergency-room doctors are filing a complaint against Montreal’s Sacré Coeur Hospital. Their association is angry because the hospital is continuing to offer bonuses to doctors who work extra shifts in the emergency rooms. The head of emergency medicine for the French-language teaching hospitals says Sacré Coeur is paying from $250

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