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A review by the Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons has found “system issues” after a woman complained about the care her 70-year-old mother received at Concordia Hospital in 2005. Tracey Weber says her mother was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and prescribed antibiotics when she arrived at the…
Emergency-room doctors are filing a complaint against Montreal’s Sacré Coeur Hospital. Their association is angry because the hospital is continuing to offer bonuses to doctors who work extra shifts in the emergency rooms. The head of emergency medicine for the French-language teaching hospitals says Sacré Coeur is paying from $250…
On Tuesday August 5, 2008 at 4:30pm, I walked into the emergency department at Trillium Care Centre on Queensway Avenue. I was suffering severe pain and pressure in my lower abdomen. I explained to the triage nurse that I was Type 1 diabetic with a renal transplant and was concerned…
On July 22nd. 2008, I went to Emergencies at Southlake Hospital with a severe pain on my right leg; we arrived at the hospital at 3:30 P.M. where registration rushed me inside. We sat inside a room for about an hour without anybody asking me about my issue. Women over…
Quebec’s emergency rooms are bursting at the seams, especially in Montreal and the Outaouais, despite some $60 million spent last year by the Liberal government to relieve pressure on hospitals’ front lines, according to an annual report on health care. For the second year in a row, Montreal newspaper La…
On June 23, 2008 I took my 6 year old son Tyler Meira to the emergency department with a fractured elbow. We arrived at the hospital at 12:30 p.m. and did not leave until 7:30 p.m. We were told that we would have a 3 hour wait which was understandable,…
My son Panogiotis had surgery for restorations on his teeth June 27th he is only 2 years old, had fasted all night and morning surgery wasnt scheduled til 1 pm and he was crying when we got upstairs to room 403 peadiactrics to prep for surgery. The first thing the…
What has happened to Canada’s Healthcare? We have turned into a 3rd World Country. I fear for my mother’s life as she recovers from a hemmorhagic stroke at the Kingston General Hospital. First they try to advise us to remove her feeding tube while she was in a coma for…
Complaint: Hi this is my story – back in Nov. I broke my ankle and went to hospital – I wanted 6 hours to see the doctor for x-ray. I was asked to buy walking sticks (surprised – I thought medical system was FREE in Canada). I was given appointment…
Complaint: Brampton,Ontario, Dec. 09, 2007 Santokh Singh After Harnek Sidhu’s death, one more death of Amarjit Narwal, 42 was reported to Toronro Star by Narwal’s cousin, Inderjit Nijjar. Inderjit told reporters that Narwal, who had suffered a stroke, was taken to emergency at Brampton Civic by ambulance from Trillium Health…