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Hello I am contacting you on behalf of my wife. Over the past 9 months she has been in and out of Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington for what he have now found out is a Peri Anal abscess. We were advised today by one of the first Surgeons we…
I would like to file a complaint against William Osler Health Centre in Brampton. I have already filed a complaint with the hospital as well as with the College of Physicians of Ontario. Please see the information below. My husband passed away on May 20, 2012 of meningitis carcinamatosis. My…
Some Canadians are waiting longer for medical treatments that federal and provincial governments agreed to provide more quickly, according to a new report. The Wait Times Alliance, which includes doctors from specialties such as emergency medicine, radiology and cardiology, released its annual report card on wait times Tuesday. In a…
A central Newfoundland family whose wife and mother died after she was released from hospital say an external review backs up their belief that a physician missed critical details about her condition. Musgrave Harbour resident June Abbott, 69, went to the emergency room in Gander in May 2010 with a…
The health of hospitalized Canadians and their visitors is being seriously put at risk by hospitals that have cut corners in cleaning budgets to save money, a Marketplace investigation has revealed. The program took hidden cameras inside 11 hospitals in Ontario and British Columbia. What they found in many of…
TORONTO – Health Canada is warning hospitals and health-care providers across the country to immediately stop using a painkiller made by Sandoz Canada after a box of the injectable morphine was found to contain another powerful drug that had been mislabelled. Sandoz informed Health Canada on Wednesday that an unidentified…
A Manitoba man who went for surgery on his Achilles tendon woke up in hospital to find doctors cut into the wrong leg. Rick Campbell went into Seven Oaks hospital in Winnipeg for a two-hour surgery on his left leg after he’d torn his tendon. After a five-hour operation, he…
The family of a man who died of a heart attack while waiting for an ambulance during Toronto’s 2009 civic strike is suing the city for more than $10 million. James Hearst died of cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009, while waiting more than 35 minutes for paramedics to arrive…
Emergency-medicine experts are sounding an alarm that people who visit hospital ERs often go home without understanding the medical instructions doctors give them. In an article in the January issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine, which reviewed more than 50 previous studies, researchers recommended that doctors provide instructions verbally,…
Ontario residents are getting a first look at the contracts of hospital CEOs, revealing a wide range of benefits and retirement packages that include offers of luxury car leases, golf club memberships and even free plastic surgery. Hospital websites posted the contracts for some of the top earners in charge…