Links and Helpful References

Why Canada should adopt "No Fault" compensation policies to help patients instead of giving money to legal teams at CMPA.

• Economic benefits of "no fault" as demonstrated in other countries

  Commonwealth Fund — Improving Patient Safety and Lowering Malpractice Costs

• The Case for Investing in Patient Safety

  In 2013 there were 28,000 deaths due to patient safety incidents ranked 3rd after cancer and heart disease in Canada. (See page #14 Figure #1)

• Is Canada's medical malpractice system working?

  Healthy Debate — Analysis of Canada's malpractice system

• Ethical argument supporting "no fault" compensation

  AMA Journal of Ethics

• "The three main functions of a medical regulatory system are to provide compensation for injury, accountability, and deterrence, and mechanisms that enable learning."

  British Journal of General Practice — Open & transparent reporting, no-fault compensation

• "Our current fault-based system for handling cases can take years to be settled."

  "Expert hired witnesses, some of dubious professional status, are called upon because the busiest specialists are reluctant to become involved in what can be a time-consuming and intimidating exercise."

• Journal of Ethics — No-Fault Cure for Medical Liability Crisis

  "Patients who suffer adverse health care events engage a plaintiff attorney and begin a long journey down the tort pathway to seek compensation. This process is adversarial and has many inconsistencies... clever lawyering skills can distort the picture... an award is usually years after the adverse event, and the award is reduced by a large percentage that covers the attorney's fees."

• Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries 2019

  "The data examined in this report suggest that there is an imbalance between the value Canadians receive and the relatively high amount of money they spend on their health-care system."

• Is It Time to Adopt a No-Fault Scheme to Compensate Injured Patients?

  "The tort system is roundly indicted for its inadequacies in providing compensation in response to injury." — Elaine Gibson, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law

• The Medical Profession and Self-Regulation

  "Many social scientists concluded that the (medical) profession had abused its privileged status and public trust and that its regulatory procedures were seriously flawed... the overarching objective must be to protect the public."