Dr. Ellen Thompson says a rising number of misconduct
investigations by the College of Physician and Surgeons of Ontario
into doctors who may be over-prescribing opioid medications such as
morphine, oxycodone and fentanyl will discourage doctors from
prescribing the painkillers even in cases where they are beneficial.
Source/more:
http://ottawacitizen.com/storyline/scrutiny-of-opioid-prescriptions-bad-news-for-patients-in-pain-doctor-warns
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Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts
Monday, December 12, 2016
Van Galder v. Economical Mutual Insurance Company
[11] There is no issue that the respondent was seriously
injured in a motor vehicle accident on January 20, 2004. She suffered
significant physical injuries to both legs. Since the date of the
accident, she has been unable to walk unaided and is now
wheelchair-bound. Subsequent complications and surgeries that
followed over the next several years resulted in the amputation of
her lower right leg and left her with chronic pain.
[93] The appellant submits that the application judge’s order has the opposite effect: it “incentivizes” an insured person to delay his or her catastrophic application as long as possible in order to accrue tremendous amounts of interest in the interim. According to the appellant, this would also create difficulty for insurers in properly establishing reserves for claims files open beyond the 104 (or 260)-week period.
[94] These arguments were submitted to and rejected by the application judge. I also would not give effect to them.
[95] First and foremost, it defies common sense that a catastrophically impaired insured person would delay making an application that would open the door to desperately needed enhanced catastrophic benefits. I agree with the application judge’s observations in this regard:
A catastrophic injury is a serious one; catastrophically injured people require assistance to perform their activities of everyday living and to cover medical expenses. The nature of these expenses are such that they cannot be forgone by a victim or denied by an insurer, with the aim of accruing or avoiding costs.
[96] There is no question that the SABS requires an insured person to make the necessary applications and provide the required information to an insurer. However, these obligations must be understood in the context of a catastrophic impairment. The nature of many catastrophic impairments may necessarily render a catastrophically impaired insured person incapable of navigating and completing the complicated and detailed application process for a catastrophic impairment determination. As the application judge found, this is clearly what happened in the present case.
Source/more: 2016 ONCA 804 (CanLII), < http://canlii.ca/t/gvd47
[93] The appellant submits that the application judge’s order has the opposite effect: it “incentivizes” an insured person to delay his or her catastrophic application as long as possible in order to accrue tremendous amounts of interest in the interim. According to the appellant, this would also create difficulty for insurers in properly establishing reserves for claims files open beyond the 104 (or 260)-week period.
[94] These arguments were submitted to and rejected by the application judge. I also would not give effect to them.
[95] First and foremost, it defies common sense that a catastrophically impaired insured person would delay making an application that would open the door to desperately needed enhanced catastrophic benefits. I agree with the application judge’s observations in this regard:
A catastrophic injury is a serious one; catastrophically injured people require assistance to perform their activities of everyday living and to cover medical expenses. The nature of these expenses are such that they cannot be forgone by a victim or denied by an insurer, with the aim of accruing or avoiding costs.
[96] There is no question that the SABS requires an insured person to make the necessary applications and provide the required information to an insurer. However, these obligations must be understood in the context of a catastrophic impairment. The nature of many catastrophic impairments may necessarily render a catastrophically impaired insured person incapable of navigating and completing the complicated and detailed application process for a catastrophic impairment determination. As the application judge found, this is clearly what happened in the present case.
Source/more: 2016 ONCA 804 (CanLII), < http://canlii.ca/t/gvd47
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
WANTED MEDICAL Professionals
Canadian Insurance News is conducting an investigation into the
Minister of Employment and Social Development office in Chatham
Ontario Canada.
Mostly we are looking for information that will lead to the procecution of the medical individules reposible for the backlog of appeals going to the Social Security tribunal of Canada.
Help us help disabled Canadians get what they paid for and make sure these pay-for-hire government doctors stop delaying, denying, and using wait for them to die tactics against legitimately disabled Canadians.
We can only fix the problems at the Social Development office in Chatham if we work together to expose these corrupt induviduals and set an example of just one of them.
Do you have a story that needs to be told? Contact us at canadianinsurancenews at g mail dot com.
Admin,
Canadian Insurance News
http://cinsurancenews.blogspot.ca/
Mostly we are looking for information that will lead to the procecution of the medical individules reposible for the backlog of appeals going to the Social Security tribunal of Canada.
Help us help disabled Canadians get what they paid for and make sure these pay-for-hire government doctors stop delaying, denying, and using wait for them to die tactics against legitimately disabled Canadians.
We can only fix the problems at the Social Development office in Chatham if we work together to expose these corrupt induviduals and set an example of just one of them.
Do you have a story that needs to be told? Contact us at canadianinsurancenews at g mail dot com.
Admin,
Canadian Insurance News
http://cinsurancenews.blogspot.ca/
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Preventable Medical Error Is Canadian Healthcare's Silent Killer
In Canada, medical errors and hospital-acquired infections claim
between 30,000
and 60,000
lives annually. Thousands more are injured. Then there is the ocean
of emotional harm that engulfs families when a loved one is lost to
the kind of hospital mishap experts say is often preventable....
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Hospitals still use flawed secrecy law to review medical errors
As the government drags its heels over amending the health secrecy act, hundreds of critical care incidents are still being investigated under the flawed legislation, the Star has learned.
Hospitals continue to invoke a controversial
health secrecy law when they investigate critical medical errors,
despite a government report that in March highlighted serious flaws in
the legislation.
In the past week, the Star has surveyed 15
hospitals in the GTA and found more than 200 critical or severe
incidents had been handled under the act since April 2014 — most of
those while the legislation was under active review by the province.
This includes at least 11 patient deaths...
More/ source: http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2015/05/29/hospitals-still-use-flawed-secrecy-law-to-review-medical-errors.html
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