Archives August 2013

Patient gets needless mastectomy after hospital mix-up

One patient had an unnecessary mastectomy and another had a necessary surgery delayed at a Halifax-area hospital after their test results were switched with two other patients. The Capital District Health Authority said Monday it made mistakes in two separate instances, both involving cancer patients. The Halifax-area health authority said

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Winnipeg ER death a failure ‘at all levels,’ inquest told

Winnipeg’s health authority has admitted that it failed Brian Sinclair, who died in his wheelchair after sitting for 34 hours in a hospital’s emergency waiting room in 2008. William Olsen, the lawyer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA), told the long-awaited inquest on Tuesday into Sinclair’s death that no

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