I am very concerned with the drunken nurses at kgh they mess up medications and someone has died because of this. I hope this is looked into the nurses clearly slurred their words and needed the wall to help them walk. I am concerned for the patients.
Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa
Appalling service that has failed to treat an emergency situation which could result in losing an eye: Admitted to A&E for an eye injury at Queensway Carleton on Friday 28 December. After a very long wait to see a doctor, advised it could be a potential detatched retina. A&E doctor
Dr. Mounsey Clinic, Toronto
I was asked to go for a CT scan which i did but never received a call back to schedule an appointment to discuss the results. In usual circumstances one would think there is nothing to be discussed but in my case i was anxious due to severe sinus issues.
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
Joseph Brant Hospital
​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
Delayed Diagnosis – William Osler Health Centre in Brampton
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
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Canada Wait times for patients ‘worsening’
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
Misdiagnosis alleged in Newfoundland woman’s death
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
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Poor hospital cleaning revealed as major problem
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
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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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