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 them were surprisingly inadequate cleaning […]
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Nursing care and attitudes 1. Unprofessionally calling patient “mama” or “papa”…have the nurses even taken time to know their patient’s names. 2. Leaving medication for a dementia patient to take, without supervision. 3. Ordering visiting family to give medication, do the dialysis or other treatments like inhalers. 4. Even worse asking a dementia patient to […]
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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 Toronto hospital had reported that […]
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Another problem has surfaced connected with the federal government’s health programs for aboriginal communities. Aboriginal leaders have been warning for weeks that a crisis is developing over a decision to delist the powerful and much-abused painkiller Oxycontin and its successor OxyNeo because a high percentage of northern Ontario aboriginals are addicted to it. Now The […]
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March 09,2012 The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba William D. B. Pope, MD, LLB. FRCPC Registrar/CEO Dear Sir, No checklists send patients into unnecessary horror after surgery. Patients continue to be robbed of their lives , beginning in the surgeons office, all the way to pre surgery. To my knowledge, Pan Am and […]
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I rushed to Toronto Leslie G hospital with my girlfriend who had deep cuts , we went in emergency to see a docter to get her stitched but guess what while waiting over 2 hours nurse’s were laghing and talking the whole time and to patients they are coldfaced i mean what are the Emergency […]
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I spent 6 hours waiting to see a doctor there yesterday for massive amount of pain i am having and all they tell me is take an advil. i go again today in more pain wait 4 hours and see no one. as well patients getting brought in my hospital are to wait 8 hours […]
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Worst emerg ever. Dr. Korvemaker is rude and condescending who lacks compassion or even social skills. If you don’t like people maybe you shouldn’t have been a so-called Dr. I feel the 4 hours I spent in emerg was all for nothing and will now have to go for a second opinion when I find […]
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To whom this may concern, This afternoon my wife had a therapy session with an esteemed proffesional at our support center. she was advised to go to an emergency room in order to have a prescription written for an anti depressant medication, as she is VERY SERIOUSLY affected by post traumatic stress disorder and becomes […]
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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 was told they’d accidentally opened […]
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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 after he had experienced a […]
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