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
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Dear President & CEO , and Chair of Board of Directors of Sunnybrook, 1) Your website at: (a)http://sunnybrook.ca/content/?page=vision_values mentioned: “Excellence: We will exceed the expectations of our patients and their families by anticipating their needs, improving access to care, and ensuring the quality and safety of care. •Accountability: My decisions
This hospital is awful!! I had gone today and was forced to wait 4 hours after completing my CT scan for the results. I watched many patients of the other doctors go in and out while the doctor I was seen by was “too busy with another patient upstairs”. I
Son says oversight at Ottawa Hospital cancer clinic serves as a warning BY HUGH ADAMI, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN FEBRUARY 22, 2012 6:07 PM Lung cancer patient Xuguang Zhao was 80 when he died in April 2010 due to respiratory failure. OTTAWA — The Ottawa Hospital acknowledges a clerical oversight in
I made several complaints about these previously to the website and for some reason the site deemed my comments inappropriate when in fact it was the hospital, and doctor conduct that was inappropriate, negligeant, diabolcially violent. If this site is supposed to be a figure painting exercise in rehab class
I attended at North York General Hospital on Saturday February 18, 2012 between the hours of 12 am and 4:30 am. I was taken there by ambulance with what I was initially told was pneumonia by a walk in doctor on Friday. By the time I went to North York
Kate Santucci Nurse at Children’s Memorial Hospital Home: 1938 W Roscoe Chicago IL 60657 Business: 2300 Children’s Plaza Chicago IL 60614-3773 773-880-4000 Internet Address: http://www.childrensmemorial.org I am writing this as a frequent visitor of Children’s Memorial, and a health care professional myself. Kate Santucci, formerly, Kate Stineman, nurse at Children’s
My father recently had a severe stroke and was moved around to 4 different hospitals in one month. Needless to say, this has been a very trying time for my family, especially having to deal with very unhappy, ignorant, uncaring, jaded nurses. Just a bit of background info on the
Emergency-medicine experts are sounding an alarm that people who visit hospital ERs often go home without understanding the medical instructions doctors give them. In an article in the January issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine, which reviewed more than 50 previous studies, researchers recommended that doctors provide instructions verbally,
PLEASE DIRECT THIS REQUEST TO THE ADMINISTRATORS OF ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL I would like to see a sign erected at the entrance to the hospital parkade on Keary Street. This sign need only contain a large letter “P” and should face east down Keary Street so that it is visible
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