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("At least one employee said he complained to ............ and also contacted Ontario health officials and the college to warn them about unsafe practices as early as the fall of 1991. But the health ministry told him it was the college's responsibility to investigate doctors. The college told him to call the ministry.") After reading, the above quote in, an article in "The Star", August 23, 2002, it became clearly apparent, to me, that some individuals are needlessly frustrated when dealing with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario with health treatment concerns.
On truly important matters is it really is not important whether you make first contact with the MOH or the CPSO?
If your first contact is with the MOH you can expect a very conscientious and considerate reply.
Click here for a response that you might expect
if you are a pessimistIf your first contact, though, is with the CPSO you may also expect a similarly conscientious and considerate reply.
Click here for a response that you might expect
if you are a pessimist
Comments at a British inquiry currently in progress Oct 7, 2002 "The existing systems are intended to protect the public against the concealment of homicide."Yet these very systems permitted 215 killings to go undetected."
Miss Swift said: "It is therefore clear the existing systems provided no safeguard at all against a determined killer within the medical profession."
She said that neither was there any reason to believe the safeguards would have worked any better in a case where an incompetent doctor wanted to conceal the fact that a patient's death had been caused by his or her own negligence.
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a Canadian Perspective. A Carer's Experience of Medical Neglect
HOW THE SYSTEM FAILED TO PROTECT ME.
The British watchdog (the GMC, the British equivalent to the CPSO) governing doctors is facing devastating criticism over its failure to protect patients February 28, 2004A few rambling comments based on personal experience with the CPSO Many believe that the CPSO is very unsympathetic, and rightly so, to frivolous complaints. While I also would be, it would be helpful if the CPSO provided some idea of what type of inquiry would merit some compassionate consideration. I now know that asking for an explanation why a person who has been pronounced dead and abandoned and later had to be restrained to be resubjected to the treatment that precipitated the first death diagnosis after they are observed disregarding the original diagnosis and attempting to leave the ICU, apparently at least, borders on the margins of a frivolous concern by their "standards". It would have been very helpful if they advised me early in the process that this was a normal occurance, in their mind, not meriting anything that I would view as a noticably serious consideration or explanation. Is there really any doubt, about who, the system is designed to protect?
At one time I thought that the ethical standards of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario were so unmistakably high that it would be insultingly unreasonable to think that they would ever not comply with the law that gave them the privilege of self regulation.
They proved me wrong. They brazenly altered hospital records by deleting many important pages in direct contravention of the act that gave them the privilege of self regulation. This infraction was undeniable since there were numerous other copies of the record available. It was so obvious that they sheepishly admitted to it with minimal reluctance. I have never felt safe since I apparently embarrassed them by bringing it to the attention of the Review Board. Do these articles accurately illustrate how doctors are indoctrinated/learn acceptable medical ethics (click here for BMJ version)?
Truthfulness was another character, that I believed, they excelled in until they dismissed my concerns by stating, "It is inevitable that when a number of health professionals are dealing with complicated problems that certain inconsistencies will arise in the recording of events, and these inconsistencies may give rise to concern on the part of family members. It is not the responsibility of the committee to explain each of these inconsistencies to the satisfaction of the complainant,". I naively used to think that meticulous accuracy would be necessary to clarify conflicting issues, especially when dealing with life and death matters.
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The best quality care for the people of Ontario
by the doctors of OntarioHow can any profession, justifiably, claim self regulation as a right and exhibit contempt for the law?
For justice to be effectively done there should also be the appearance that justice has been done!
In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic.
Then they came for me
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and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.
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