Medical Records

The family questions why she was not transferred to intensive care after a blood test showed elevated risk of cardiac arrest.

Dr. Nirupa Srikisson also admitted to three charges involving improper access to the medical records of patients who were not in her care, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.

In the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 "code blue'' incidents.

Long-time family physician Dr. Steve Shore tells us about all the things that are driving family doctors like him truly batty these days.

Chris McCarthy, the association's president said that requiring patients to go to their family doctors for requisitions for x-rays slows down their care.

Dr. Wequar Ahmad, a Calgary-based general practitioner, also breached a 2014 undertaking requiring a chaperone when seeing female patients. On at least 15 occasions, he noted the presence of a chaperone when in fact there was none.

Something clicked as Dr. Raj Waghmare thought about the case. He suddenly felt both smart and stupid.

‘The discharge summary said: rapid evacuation under major disaster circumstances … war,’ recalled Montreal oncologist Dr. Layla Shbat. ‘Honestly, my heart just kept on sinking and sinking.’