Emergency Medicine

How to manage patient loads and help people get the care they need.

There were more than 3,300 complaints in the 2021-22 year, with most concentrated in the Toronto area and northern Ontario.

Jason Copping said the private car and driver allowed Dr. John Cowell to take calls and handle sensitive documents while going from Calgary to Edmonton and back in November in order to take in the throne speech at the legislature.

Physicians can disagree, but in the care of this patient it seemed like my colleague was guilty of work avoidance.

Matching caps, misplaced vials, and human error—all of these have led to potentially dangerous mix-ups in medications that come in vials and ampoules, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada.

Just one Canadian institution was ranked among the 10 best in the world, with nine other Canadian hospitals included in the total 250 on the list.

A coroner has been assigned to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death and the health authority says the risk management department and the complaints commissioner will also investigate.

The agreement is a step toward completing a $196-billion, 10-year healthcare funding proposal that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made with Canada’s premiers last month.