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Canadian Patient Safety Week: Straight Talk From Patient Safety Advocates Among Us

by Heather | Oct 31, 2011 | Patients

Canadian Patient Safety Week starts today and I thought it would be a good time to share videos about patient safety issues in our health care system. I don’t mean the usual wash your hands message directed at our health care providers. What I mean is straight...

Patient Safety Advocate Leslie Worthington: Her Father’s Voice, Part II

by Heather | Apr 7, 2010 | Canadian Health Care Stories

Leslie Worthington continues the search for accountability in Canadian health care. The family members of other patients experiencing medical errors begin contacting her for help in navigating a closed-door system. On one occasion Leslie and another woman offer each...
Patient Safety Advocate Leslie Worthington: Her Father’s Voice, Part I

Patient Safety Advocate Leslie Worthington: Her Father’s Voice, Part I

by Heather | Apr 3, 2010 | Canadian Health Care Stories

John Klassen died at Concordia Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba on January 26, 2004, at the age of 80 from complications following a heart attack. If not for the efforts of his daughter Leslie Worthington, these would be the only known facts of this patient case. For...

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