A FORUM on ONTARIO MEDICINE: business and professional
Information from various contributors edited by Dr.Alex Franklin MBBS(Lond.)Dip.Phys.Med(UK) DPH & DIH(Tor.)LMC(C)FLex(USA).Fellow Med.Soc.London, Liveryman of London Society of Apothecaries. Freeman of City of London. Member Toronto Faculty club & Toronto Medico-Legal society.
Teenager, 17, died from leukaemia 10 days after doctors sent her home saying she had tonsillitis
Sent home from NHS walk-in centre but died in hospital 10 days later
By
Hugo Gye PUBLISHED:
10:14 GMT, 11 April 2013
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UPDATED:
10:14 GMT, 11 April 2013
A teenage girl died from a rare form
of leukaemia just 10 days after doctors told her she was only suffering
from tonsillitis and fatigue. Sophie Coldwell, 17, had been feeling tired for some time, but her parents attributed it to the increased burden of schoolwork. In
fact, she was suffering from a cancer so aggressive that a hospital
consultant said he had never seen anything like it - and now her family
hopes to save others by raising awareness of the devastating condition.
Kelvin MacKenzie: faces libel claim from doctor over his Daily Mail column. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Kelvin MacKenzie faces more woes after being dropped by the Telegraph as it emerged that his column in the Daily Mail has become the subject of a £200,000 libel case.
Dr
Antonio Serrano, an NHS doctor in Sussex, has claimed that his
reputation was smeared by Mackenzie's column in April 2012 that
described the "living hell" of one of his patients.
The
column, headlined "A whole year of hell, thanks to a foreign doctor",
suggested that Serrano was seriously incompetent and had an "inadequate
grasp of the English language", according to a claim form filed at the
high court in London.
Mackenzie's typically provocative
Daily Mail column was published on 21 April last year and began: "Last
week, I raised the uncomfortable issue of foreign doctors working in
this country, and targeted the offensive behaviour of a Spanish
consultant. I have since received, and investigated to my satisfaction,
an even more shocking case."
The column went on to describe how a diagnosis by Serrano led to a bus driver's licence being revoked by the DVLA.
In
a 13-page claim form seen by MediaGuardian, lawyers for Serrano said
the column falsely portrays the medical professional as "a particularly
shocking example of foreign doctors working in the NHS who, for reasons
deriving from their being foreign, are seriously incompetent, inadequate
or otherwise unacceptable."
Mackenzie instructed his
agent, the former Sun journalist Charles Rae, to put some of the
allegations to Serrano, the lawyers claim.
The Daily Mail
column reported that the patient's local MP, Amber Rudd, was "appalled"
at his treatment by Serrano. In fact, the Tory MP made it clear she had
no view or comment when contacted by Rae on Mackenzie's behalf,
according to the claim form.
It adds: "In the premises it
is to be inferred that Mr MacKenzie published the article with an
irresponsible and insulting disregard for the reputation and feelings of
the claimant [Dr Serrano], being more determined to publish another,
follow-up story on his xenophobic theme of 'foreign doctors' than
concerned with publishing a story that was either true or fair."
The Daily Mail's publisher, Associated Newspapers,
had not returned a request for comment at the time of publication, but
the newspaper told Press Gazette that it was contesting the claim.
Alert Peterborough Pharmacist discovers that prepared chemotherapy infusions supplied by Hamilton MARCHESE HEALTH CARE were diluted.improperly.
Marchese Pharmacy was bought in 1988 from Pharmacist Jack.Marchese by Pharmacist. Marita ZAFIRO.to become Marchese Health Care, 316 James st.North, Hamilton L8L 1H2.(near Lake Ontario).905-528-4214 .Marchese Health Care advertises "Infusion therapy".
Patients affected by Pharmacy error:
LONDON: 665
OSHAWA:34
PETERBOROUGH:1
WINDSOR:290.
CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE & GEMCITABINE involved.
(Cancer Care Ontario has not yet explained why hospital Cancer treatment supplies were ordered from a Hamilton pharmacy. Interesting that Hamilton JURAVINSKI Cancer Centre was not involved.)
Princess Margaret (Cancer) Hospital may be good at Research but is less than satisfactory for patient care. Uses general nurses for venipucture not specialized Phlebotomists.. Physician's wife with pathological fracture from plasmacytoma in severe pain had to wait in ER for 5 hours and discharged with advice to double opioid dose and use a cloth sling. Later Princess Margaret Radiotherapist refused. radiotherapy unless arm was internally fixated.
Cast was`applied under anaesthesia at St.JOSEPH (Teaching) Hospital and 20 Gray dose radiotherapy given at Sunnybrook (Teaching) Hospital ODETTE CANCER CENTER.
Toronto urgently needs a PRIVATE HOSPITALS similar to Montreal (ROCKLAND MD)
Following the drowning suicide of Welland Paediatrician A.HSU after the absurd Medical Review Committee (MRC) fined him $100,000 for not writing enough. MPP Kormas started Parliamentary action that led to the Justice Cory Inquiry which abolished the MRC.
The MRC was famous for having a Past College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) President GP Stan.BAIN as a`MRC Chairman who was later convicted.by Ont.Court Judge Lang for his part in the death, by criminal negligence, of Mrs.Pittman.(March 14,1994)
Indexed as
Pittman Estate v. Bain
Pittman et al. v. Bain; Toronto Hospital
et al., Third
Parties; Pittman et al. v. Toronto
Hospital et al.; Bain,
Third Party
112 D.L.R. (4th) 257
Court File Nos. 21487/91U;
21488/91U
Ontario Court (General
Division)
Lang J.
March 14, 1994
Actions for damages for
negligence causing physical harm.
KennethArenson and David G. Harvey, for plaintiffs.
Mary M. Thomson and Colin L.
Campbell, Q.C., for defendant, Dr.
New virus is MORE deadly than Sars, warn scientists after second Briton dies taking death toll to 11
New research shows coronavirus affects many organs and kills quickly
'It could be more virulent than Sars' says microbiologist
Announced this week that second British man has died from virus
By
Anthony Bond PUBLISHED:
13:45 GMT, 29 March 2013
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UPDATED:
17:09 GMT, 29 March 2013
A new virus which has claimed the life of a second Briton is potentially more deadly than Sars, scientists have warned. The mysterious coronavirus, which has emerged in the Middle East, attacks the respiratory system and was only identified six months ago. So far there have been 11 deaths - with the World Health Organisation this week saying a second British man has died.
Killer: A new virus which has claimed the life
of a second Briton is potentially more deadly than Sars, scientists have
warned. This image shows a microscope image of coronavirus
New research has found that
unlike Sars - severe acute respiratory syndrome - the new virus affects
many different organs in the body, killing cells extremely quickly. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung, said if the virus mutated further it could cause a deadly pandemic. 'It
could be more virulent [than Sars]', he said. 'The Sars coronavirus
infects very few human cell lines. But this new virus can infect many
types of human cell lines, and kill cells rapidly.'
Seventeen cases have been announced
since the WHO issued an alert in September last year, most of them with
links to the Middle East. This week it was announced that a 73-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates had also died from the virus. He was flown to hospital in Munich last week and died on Tuesday, the World Health Organisation said.
Source: Experts believe the coronavirus originated in bats
It also confirmed a British man with a history of travel to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had died in a British hospital. The source of coronavirus is not known, but experts believe it originated in bats. Animals which could host the virus include monkeys, pigs and even rabbits Scientists
say the new virus is from the same viral family that causes the common
cold and also triggered the outbreak of Sars which swept the world from
Asia in late 2003, leaving 775 dead. Symptoms of coronavirus
- which doctors say spreads rapidly around the body within 48 hours of
infection - include severe breathing difficulties, fever, coughing and
pneumonia. It can also attack the kidneys, according to health experts. In
a statement issued late on Tuesday, the WHO said it was encouraging
governments to watch for all severe respiratory infections and
especially for any unusual patterns they might take. For
the moment, the U.N. agency said, it was not advising countries to set
up any special screening for the virus at entry points and was not
recommending any of the travel or trade restrictions introduced during
the SARS epidemic. The
first reported case of infection by the previously little-known virus
was a Qatari man who had also traveled to Saudi Arabia. Earlier in 2012,
a 60-year-old Saudi national was believed to have died from it.
