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Neglect at the Edith Cavell Care Centre
NOTE: Mr. Kurvink tried to charge me almost $1,200 to copy my parents charts! Once I submitted a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner and an investigation was conducted, the fee dropped to just under $400. Quite a difference! Lethbridge, AB March 14, 2008 John Kurvink Chantelle Management 9110-196A Street Langley, BC V1M 3B4 Dear Mr. […]
Deadly Seroquel, Bastion Place, BC
Reduced Staffing Levels, Increased Medicating of Patients Seroquel (Quetiapine) is an anti-psychotic drug, whose use has been banned in the U.S. Trade-off that is made between increased staffing and better control of patient behaviour; It may be July, but snow is the word that reverberates through Dina Loeb’s head. Her father, […]
Bastion Place, BEATINGS, Salmon Arm
Beatings at Salmon Arm nursing home due to low staffing, families say Two families are blaming low staffing levels at the Bastion Place nursing home in Salmon Arm, B.C.,for two brutal assassaults on their elderly relatives. Tilly Nightingale, 97, was found on the floor of her room at the Bastion Place nursing home in Salmon […]
Euthanasia of children in the Netherlands
For 12 to 15 year old children the parents must agree with the child’s request for euthanasia before it can put into effect. For 16 and 17 year olds the parents must be involved but the decision is for the child alone. A total of fourteen children have been given euthanasia, including one 12 year […]
Hippocrates
Keep the ‘dead donor rule.’ The Hippocratic Oath is dead. “Do no harm” medicine is fast becoming extinct. Contemporary health care is increasingly under the sway of a utilitarian bioethics that makes the elimination of suffering the prime directive—to the detriment of traditional standards of medical morality that deem all human life equally worthy of […]
Dr. Edward Redshaw, Advocacy
Dear Friends: I was going through my advocacy communications, which date back many years, when I came across this one. Thought I would share it with you. With the passage of time and the incoming residents requiring increasingly more care from staff whose numbers and funding are not concurrently increasing it appears that we are […]
Government non-response
GOVERNMENT NON-RESPONSE Dear People: The following is the response I received from the Health Minister. She has now moved into automated response. Sometime ago there was no response automated or otherwise. “Thank you for your correspondence. Minister Hoffman appreciates that you have taken the time to write and values your comments greatly. We understand that […]
Medical Science Under Dictatorship
Medical Science Under Dictatorship by DR. LEO ALEXANDER This article was taken from the July 14, 1949, issue of “The New England Journal of Medicine.”) Science under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy of the dictatorship. Irrespective of other ideologic trappings, the guiding philosophic principle of recent dictatorships, including that of the Nazis, has […]
NDP Bans Adults Only Building
NDP Bans Adults Only Building. NDP Bill to amend Human Rights Act to ban adults-only buildings. Condominium owners who gave feedback about the legislation wanted to maintain age restrictions, however were disregarded. The NDP introduced a bill putting an end to adults-only apartment buildings as of Jan. 1, 2018 But an exception gives condo owners […]
Divorce by Nursing Home
Necessary care forces Oyen couple apart DEATH HAS NOT PARTED AN OYEN COUPLE AFTER 54 YEARS OF MARRIAGE BUT ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES HAS. By Giilian Slade, Medicine Hat News Gary Davis and his wife have a home in Oyen. After his wife was treated in hospital a few months ago, and her needs assessed, she […]
Public Guardian Officer Approves Medication
Individual with no medical training or background given authority to approve psychotropic medications to mental patients. Patient then must take the medication, accept the medication or be forced to do so and be subjected to a violent takedown.
Hidden Patient
Confidential Patient Vera was a frail elder but living independently on her own, made her own meals, did her own laundry. She had homecare visits three times a day, a social worker visited once a week. She had authorized a Personal Directive and named son XXXX as her agent. This story involved a large estate. […]
Hospital Urges Suicide
Hospital Urges Suicide CANADIAN MAN RELEASES TAPES OF HOSPITAL URGING HIM TO DIE BY EUTHANASIA In March 2017, CTV News reported that Roger Foley, who lives with cerebellar ataxia, a degenerative neurological condition, has launched a lawsuit naming the stating that they are offering him assisted death (MAiD) but they are not willing to provide […]
Conservatives Oppose Euthanasia
Conservative Party of Canada opposes expansion of euthanasia. The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Policy Convention (August 25, 2018) in Halifax overwhelmingly supported a party policy opposing the expansion of euthanasia (MAiD). The policy stated that the CPC: “Opposed the extension of euthanasia and assisted suicide to minors, to people who are not competent and […]
Alberta Health Services not accountable.
VULNERABLE ALBERTANS NEGLECTED Dear Honourable people: AHS is probably the most powerful government department with well over 11,000 people and increasing in size annually. They are becoming answerable only to themselves. They totally control Continuing Care and access to any Level and Long-Term Care which they are converting to Palliative Care. The care requirements in […]