Medicolegal / Medical Law

An incident at an OMA conference highlights the complex ethical and professional challenges physicians face when expressing political views.

Newly unsealed legal realities reveal why continuing the 2015 court battle could have jeopardized Ontario physicians' future bargaining rights.

With a Binding Arbitration Framework in place, the medical association says the costly legal battle over 2014 fee cuts is no longer necessary.

The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought in 2024 that accused the healthcare giant of providing massive amounts of opioids and other controlled substances ‘to fuel its own profits at the expense of public health and safety.’

Medical records showed her seizures were often followed by symptoms such as ‘confusion, irritability, physically and verbally abusive behaviour and episodic amnesia,’ the inquest heard.

Remarks made by a member of Parliament, who is also a doctor, suggesting illicit drugs such as fentanyl are a ‘painless’ and ‘readily available’ option to end one’s life are now the subject of a complaint filed to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.

The claim stems from an opinion article written by two Canadian psychiatrists who recount the woman’s story.

From 1892 to today.

It will be the first time the federal government communicates the direction it plans to take on MAID in the wake of a parliamentary committee recommending in June that it should ‘indefinitely pause’ an expansion.

An Ontario mother’s acquittal in the death of her infant son is the latest display of medical evidence of shaken baby syndrome discredited in the courtroom.