Prosecutors say Dr. Thomas Kwan pretended to be a community nurse delivering booster shots and injected Patrick O’Hara with a toxic substance, likely a pesticide.
In addition to failure to maintain appropriate boundaries, Dr. Jeffrey Martin Steinberg was also found to have inappropriately withheld prescriptions for patients.
Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death.
The lawsuit filed with the Court of King’s Bench in Fredericton alleges Darrell Mesheau’s death was caused by the ‘reckless and outrageous acts and omissions’ of Horizon Health Network and its staff.
Both the CPhA and the OPA have submitted responses to proposed regulations, suggesting changes, including making permanent pharmacists' ability to adapt prescriptions for controlled substances.