To further my brothers complaint the nurses in the cardiac ward only came in to the room when absolutely nessessary. Our mothers IV machine would be alarming and no nurse woulld come into the room to see why. Not only has this taken a toll on my brothers and I but you can imagine just […]

Our mother was sent by her doctor to be admitted on a Thursday this month following some blood tests, after 9 1/2 hours she was sent home, but was set up with an appointment with an internist so they could look for some cancer?!?! Very blunt and insensitive. She returned the following Wednesday to be […]

This hospital has a habit of not notifying their patients when an appointment needs to be changed. I had to take a day off work to make a kidney scan appt and they called me that day to cancel it. The second appt was for an angiography that was rescheduled twice. Then on the evening […]

On Sept. 12, 2010 I came to Southlake with a severely infected foot and blood poisoning that had turned septic which made me delirious. (I have no recollection of the days of Sept. 11 or 12). My wife begged the nurses to clean my foot wound and change the bandage that she had put on […]

My wife was in very critical condition so went to Brampton civic hospital emergency dept. Doctors and nurses are very rude, and they do not care if you die. So, they look at once, and try to send you home regardless how your condition is, went 3 times in 2 weeks, as was unfortunate that […]

If the Canadian health-care system were a corporation, it would be among the biggest in the world. Last year, the total amount paid into the system — or the revenues it pulled in, depending on how you look at it — topped out at a record $183.1 billion, enough to earn it third place on […]

I have been very sick for the last 4 years now…I was told i had GERD then i was told i had (dysphagia) also . i was 32 going on 33 when all of this started i am now 36..I was 132 pounds when it started i dropped to 80 pounds with in 2 weeks […]

I had gynecological surgery October 8, 2010 and in the following 48 hours was subject to several errors which have eroded my trust in the facility and could have done me grievous injury if I had not been more alert. In the first 4 to perhaps 8 hours post surgery, I felt the need to […]

Patient wishes to come home after a stroke and anuerysm. Patient is eating thickened food and being at home could offer her the same care that she’s receiving in the hospital. She has been left in diapers for hours until her bottom was bleeding. Left curled up on the bed that was lifted too high […]

My dad was in for checkup for his fractured leg and doctor said that the first operation did not go well so they will take him right away for second surgery – that being said… no food for him since morning. after doctor checkup – he was made to sit on the wheel for 5 […]

I went to emerg after suffering from a severe gallbladder attack for 12 hours (finally was able to get up and go). The regitration/triage part of my visit was quick and timely…. however once I got into the back it was a different story. I work in a Medical Laboratory, and painfully watched a technician […]

Went in the other night, only two people ahead of me in line to see the doctor. Was waiting for 5.5 hours. This is like this everytime I go, Most of the time its a 10 hour wait. While I am waiting in the waiting room, you can hear gigling and lauging where they like […]

I am writing this letter to report the shocking and appalling treatment my eighty year old Father (Pat Hegarty) and I received at the hands of the emergency staff at The Greater Niagara General Hospital on the evening of July 23rd, 2010 . Upon entering the hospital at approximately 7:45pm, until we left at 1:45am, […]

Problem started when I took my pregnant wife to the hospital and we met the Doctor. By the following month, they were always on the phone. One day, I got back early from work and was told that my wife had gone out with the doctor. When she returned, close to midnight, she said the […]

My girlfriend was thrown from her horse in Saint-Lazare, on Thursday, August 12th, at approximately 6:30pm. First Responders took her by ambulance to Valleyfield Hospital. Jennifer is in the process of becoming a Canadian resident, and does not yet have her Quebec RAMQ card yet, and does not have any health insurance. The triage nurse […]

I stepped on a nail that went through the side of my toe approx the tip of the nail. I phoned the HealthCare Line and got excellence service. She advised me (after asking many questions) that considering I got a tetanus shot in 2003 that even though it was only 7 years ago I should […]

.I discovered that nurses are cheeting blud pressure readings 2 weeks ago and I informed general nurse and doctor nothing had been done after many complains til my father went to ICU because of low blad pressure caused kidney falure – I was right 2 weeks ago and I prejedicted it after he returned from ICU […]

Hi,I took my father to brampton civic hospital on 24/july/2010 around 12.45pm,because he was fall twice in the house.First he fell down from the bed when he was sleeping.Second time he had a fall when he was going to the washroom.His head hit with the wall and there is a red spot on the head […]

We were given an appointment (11:45 am) Friday July 9, 2010 for my daughter to have her tonsils removed. Both my husband and I took time off work to be able to get her to and back from the hospital after her surgery; and of course the patient who is my 22 year old daughter […]

I had colon surgery on the 14th April 2009 at Bowmanville by Dr Hamour. Due to lack of care and communication I ended back in Emergency with an abscess, having to have emergency surgery. I made a complaint by phone on the 4th January 2010, when I had cleared Home Care, and felt fit to […]