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• Apologizing for Mistakes Reduces Mistakes!

  Apologizing Reduces Mistakes A study performed at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital has found that apologizing for mistakes may actually help reduce the incidents of mistakes. Full Disclosure Three years ago the hospital implemented a “full…

• Nurses Have a Duty to Ensure Doctors Meet the Standard of Care

  Nurses Duty to Ensure Appropriate Care A recent decision from Ontario has found that nurses have a duty to ensure patients receive appropriate care from a responsible physician when faced with a medical emergency. The…

• Medical Malpractice Claim Struck Out for Lack of Expert Evidence

  One of the reasons why medical malpractice claims are so complicated, and so expensive, is because they require the testimony of medical experts, usually several medical experts to testify about both legal issues such as:…

• $4.5 Million Award for Child Who Suffered Cerebral Palsy Due to Birth Trauma

  Court Approves Multi-Million Dollar Settlement The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has approved a settlement in a medical malpractice case awarding 4.5 million dollars in compensation to a child who suffered cerebral palsy as a…

• Should I Let My Family Lawyer Handle My Medical Malpractice Claim?

  Many people know a lawyer who handles the routine legal matters that most families have to deal with from time to time; buying and selling a house, preparing a will, dealing with speeding tickets, maybe…

• What Is “Continuing Treatment” And Why Is It Important To My Medical Malpractice Claim?

  Continuing Treatment Continuing treatment is a term that lawyers use to describe the length of time that you have continued to receive treatment from your doctor. In many cases, after a patient receives negligent treatment…

• “Common Sense” Does Not Apply In Medical Malpractice Claims

  The Ontario Court of Appeal recently released its decision in Rowlands v. Wright allowing an appeal by a surgeon who had been found liable for medical malpractice at trail. Dr. Wright performed laparoscopic gallbladder surgery…

• Failure to Diagnose Cancer: Do I Have a Medical Malpractice Claim?

  Highest Cancer rates in Canada Nova Scotia has the highest cancer rates in the country. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, 40% of Canadian women and 45% of men will develop cancer during their lifetime.…

• Birth Injuries and Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring: New Guidelines Make it Harder to Sue?

  ACOG Issues New Practice Guidelines In the July 2009 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued practice bulletin No. 106: Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring. The new bulletin…

• “Mature” Children Can Refuse Medical Treatment: Supreme Court of Canada

  Children Can Make Medical Decisions A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that children under the age of 16 who are capable of “mature, independent” judgment can make life or death decisions…