2024 Awards
These cases highlight examples from 2024 of how Canada's public medical systems continue to fail patients.
1 "The former top doctor for B.C.'s Interior region made more than $360,000 in the last fiscal year, despite being on leave or on desk duty for several months while facing several charges related to child sexual offences."
Former top doctor in B.C. Interior paid $361K despite sex charges | CBC News
2 "Gunter Holthoff says he watched his wife Allison writhing in pain for hours on the floor of the hospital before she died." Then...
3 "Montreal Gazette report highlighted 6 deaths in hospital's emergency room, now province is looking into it."
4 "But when she received the surgery, she realized they performed the procedure on the left eye, not the right."
5 "As Ottawa plans to hike health funding, families say system doesn't learn from errors."
6 "Another complaint filed against Sask. judge who ruled on sexual assault case."
7 "B.C. doctor facing second sexual assault charge."
8 "Families ask why B.C. surgeon still allowed to see patients after string of negligence claims."
9 She arrived at the Victoria General Hospital a short time later to find him in a wheelchair, waiting for her at the nurses' station. She soon realized something much more serious could be wrong with her husband.
10 "It took her decades to find her alleged abuser. Then she learned of the doctor's disturbing history."
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