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Hospitals main source of complaints, patients making them for the ‘right reasons’: report

TORONTO — Many patients, their families and caregivers worry filing a complaint about their health care could lead to reprisal, says Ontario’s Patient Ombudsman, and there is still work to do to combat that perception. In her first ever annual report, which will be released Thursday, Patient Ombudsman Christine Elliott

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Hospitals warned to quarantine Sandoz morphine product after labelling mix-up

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

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