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If you develop a serious illness or are injured in an accident, you will depend on your family physician not only to provide medical care, but also to assist you in obtaining employment accommodations, insurance benefits or third-party compensation. Your physician has legal and ethical duties to you in these circumstances. Susanne Raab has written
What makes people want to sue their doctors? Over the years I’ve spoken with thousands of people who have been unhappy about their health care. Most people are understanding and forgiving of errors and oversights by their doctors. But when their concerns are dealt with poorly or not at all, patients become incensed and may
Spinal cord injuries can be caused by trauma such as a motor vehicle accident or a fall from a ladder. They can also have a medical cause, such as tumours or infections or even a severely herniated disk, that presses on the spinal cord. At Pacific Medical Law, we see people who have experienced a
Mustapha v. Culli-gan, 2008 SCC 27 involved a claim for mental injury after the plaintiff found a dead fly in a bottle of water supplied by the defendant, leading to depression, phobia and anxiety. In this case, the Supreme Court of Canada set out the framework for establishing a claim for mental injury: DID THE
Autoregulation monitoring, a new procedure for treating patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury, is now being used at Vancouver General Hospital. In a healthy brain, autoregulation is an intrinsic control mechanism that maintains constant cerebral blood flow and oxygenation. When a person suffers a traumatic brain injury, their autoregulation mechanisms are impaired, and the
