Medicolegal / Medical Law

In light of the data, WorkSafeBC is urging employers to assess the risks in their own workplaces to remove or minimize the problem.

Investigators say they were tipped off after receiving a complaint about a therapist at the Milton location of Spectacokids, which offers behaviour, speech and occupational therapy services.

Standard of care issues and inappropriate prescribing were seen as far more severe compared among patients compared to doctors.

A statement from Michael Harvey’s office says its investigation found 71 incidents of snooping by 36 health workers in the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health authorities as well as the Provincial Health Services Authority.

The family of a man charged with attempted murder in St. John's says he was beaten by police after he had sought help from a hospital for his mental illness, forever changing his relationship with authorities.

Amid the court battle between Dr. Elaine Ma and OHIP over a mass vaccination clinic involving medical residents and students, here’s what doctors in Ontario should know about billing while supervising or delegating services to trainees.

Dr. John Stevenson Bynon Jr. was indicted by a grand jury in Houston last month on five counts of false statements relating to healthcare matters.

Dr. Gerald Belgardt, who was Christopher Duong’s longtime family physician as well as a doctor at Prince Rupert Regional Hospital, told the inquest that Duong was ‘very friendly and calm and co-operative’ in a psychiatric assessment at the hospital.