Hallway medicine is no longer an exception in Ontario emergency departments. When overcrowding contributes to a missed diagnosis, a premature discharge, or a death, the legal question is who is responsible. The short answer: the standard of care doesn’t bend because the system is in crisis.
On August 22, 2025, a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found emergency medicine physician Dr. Angela Cavanagh negligent for not referring a
On August 14, 2025, the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta found Dr. Mark Guhle liable for over $16,500,000 for medical malpractice leading to the
On March 18, 2025, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (“OPSDT”) of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (“CPSO”) ordered a three
Sepsis is organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection and is life-threatening, with greater risks for people under 1 year old or in higher age groups. There were an estimated 11 million sepsis-related deaths worldwide in 2017, and for septic shock, in particular, the mortality rate has decreased very little in recent decades despite advances in sepsis management.
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