jason spence I waited in the emergency room for 5 hours with a broken foot..

On November 15th I was on my way to my Uncle’s memorial. He had died of a sudden heart attack. Meanwhile, my grandfather was ill with pneumonia (he has COPD) at Brampton Civic but was on the mend. I received a frantic phone call from a family member saying my grandfather had taken a turn […]

Patient: Klaus Friedrich Dorr, of Port Moody, BC. During the summer of 2008 , complained of pain throughout abdomen and severe in lower abdomen. Had many tests run through family doctor, but made several trips to emergency when pain became severe. Was checked out but the attitudes of doctors were that he was wasting their […]

Two prominent Canadian charities – Sick Kids Foundation and World Vision Canada – have admitted to using a discredited fundraising technique and are moving swiftly to clean up their act. Each has been using commission-based techniques frowned upon in the charity world because they can lead to aggressive tactics. When canvassers get paid only if […]

I’m trying to help out my mother’s well being. I’m fed up with what she has to go through every time she’s in need of help. It all started 4 years ago. she was having abdominal pains. Doctors in St-Pierre,mb adminstered her to a O.B specialist Dr.McCARTHY. He decided to operate on her because she […]

WINNIPEG – A 45-year-old man who died in a Winnipeg hospital emergency department after sitting there for 34 hours was known to medical staff, health officials confirmed Tuesday morning. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority chief medical officer Brock Wright would not confirm or deny the man suffered from a mental illness or was homeless, but said […]

Our family doctor from Medical Arts Building advised us to have a retest on our 2-year old son who was found out to be G6PD after birth (born in the Philippines). We agreed and had his blood samples collected at the Medical Arts Building before 6pm (after his check-up). The samples shall be brought to […]

Peel Region’s Sikh community played a key role in establishing Brampton’s gleaming new hospital. It has played an equally major role in the troubled institution’s first major crisis. BRAMPTON: The opening of Brampton Civic Hospital was supposed to be an occasion for celebration, especially among the city’s burgeoning Sikh community. They had been actively courted […]

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 hospital’s emergency department in extreme […]

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 to $1,000 extra per shift. […]

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 that it was being rejected. […]

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 there were walking around and […]

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 Presse rated admission times at […]

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, but 7 hours, not acceptable!!!! […]

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 head nurse does is yells […]

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 3 weeks and now while […]

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 to see Dr. in fracture […]

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 Centre in Mississauga. Narwal was […]

The head of the Lions Gate Hospital says a spate of published complaints from patients — including a 2 a.m. release of an elderly woman — are overblown accounts of isolated incidents made worse by ongoing renovations. But Mary Ackenhusen, the chief operating officer with responsibility for the North Vancouver hospital, said the hospital will […]