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Cardiologists and heart surgeons in Quebec are warning about a shortage of staff, particularly perfusionists, saying the lack of workers who help keep patients alive during heart surgeries is contributing to delays and even deaths. “Eighty people have died in the last year, year and a half, waiting for their …
Read More »Plastic surgeon’s 6-week suspension for professional misconduct ‘slap on the wrist’: former patient
A Manitoba woman who was injured by a plastic surgeon more than a decade ago is worried after the doctor was temporarily suspended for medical errors — and she wants the disciplinary system to change to protect others. For six years, Melanie Drain lived with the end of a drainage …
Read More »Doctor with Hamilton ties, 1st Black man at White House reception, among ‘courageous’ Civil War surgeons
More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott’s visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln continue to fascinate people. Abbott, a man of notable firsts, is included in Jill L. Newmark’s book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. In addition to …
Read More »Change needed to combat anti-Black racism at College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia
An external review into anti-Black racism within the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia has found a lack of understanding and action about racism and a need for better policies and training aimed at eliminating it. The study was conducted by a task force made up of five people who identify …
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