It’s taking longer for patients with an urgent condition to see a doctor, a new survey suggests. The Canadian Medical Association, the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada released their findings on the opinions of doctors, medical residents and
Woodstock General Hospital, Woodstock Onatrio
the doctor incharge of the pychatric ward Dr Fernado is incompetent, in my spouses situation has refused to assess her but he has signed papers too keep her formed twice now once for 2 week and again for 30 days nurses on the ward have stated that she is not
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Patients better off in taxis than non-emergency medical transfer vehicles: ombudsman
By Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press – 20 hours ago TORONTO — Ontario residents would be better off taking a taxi to a hospital than one of the privately owned vehicles used to transfer hundreds of thousands of non-critical patients each year, provincial watchdog Andre Marin said Friday. The ombudsman
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ER nurses file complaint of overwork
The Ontario Nurses Association has filed another complaint against Sault Area Hospital, charging that RNs in the emergency department are overworked. The professional responsibility complaint recently lodged includes concerns that emergency nurses were to start drawing blood as of Wednesday, a task that up to now had been done by