Study shows 26,000 seniors had an adverse drug reaction. How about a hospital...
A new study reports that 26,000 people aged 65 and older experienced an adverse effect of a drug that was given at the correct dose in 2010-2011. Medication errors and adverse drug events are a...
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Epidemic of Medication Errors via Enteral Support | Part One
The Consequences of Mixing Negligence and High Risk How is it possible that a Canadian hospital subjected an elderly, high-risk patient to more than 4,200 medication errors, endangering her recovery,...
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Epidemic of Medication Errors via Enteral Support | Part Two
The hospital that prepared a high-risk patient’s medications in a busy hallway and mixed them with water from a dirty bathroom sink In Part One on the results of our investigation of the mishandling of...
View ArticleWelcome to the Hospital that Makes a Practice of Hiding Information | Part One
We saw a clear pattern at work in our mother’s care: dishonesty and deception about the true state of her condition; concealment and cover-up when adverse outcomes and errors occurred. And the CBC...
View ArticleWelcome to the Hospital that Makes a Practice of Hiding Information | Part Two
This hospital had a unique way of dealing with pressure ulcers. It hid them. Our mother’s were a source of constant pain. But they were never documented by nursing staff or their supervisors and...
View ArticleWhere Did Healthcare Accountability Go to Die? We Think We Know the Hospital....
Accountability, at almost every level of Canadian healthcare, is viewed like a virus that places the whole system at risk and needs to be avoided like the worst strain of superbug. Even the hint of it...
View ArticleAgeism and the Thieves of Hope
Demoralizing comments and an end-of-life obsession followed us around this hospital like an ominous Greek chorus. It was as if hope was viewed as some kind of disease. This is what can happen when...
View ArticleDilantin Disaster
How could a hospital and its medical team be so negligent when it came to such a complex drug, make more than 168 errors with it and then claim they never happened? You might think the Prevacid fiasco...
View ArticleComplaints filed over actions of hospital doctors, chief nurse and pharmacy
Complaints filed with Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario College of Nurses and Ontario College of Pharmacists for professional misconduct.
View ArticlePatients call it accountability. This hospital and its high-priced lawyers...
We received another chilling lawyer's letter clearly designed to thwart our complaints to the College of Nurses. Accusing family members of what amounts to a criminal act because they insist upon...
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