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When I was six, I was hospitalized with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. At the hospital, I was encouraged to get out of bed, get dressed and spend as much time as possible in the playroom. I brought magazines and books back to my room to read and played with other kids who were up and about on the pediatric floor. There was a girl in the next room with leukemia, and we made faces and waved to each other through our shared window.
http://www.goodmorningusa.tk/2
Recently the media has been full of news about a particular insurance assessor who was caught altering medical reports so that the victim would not qualify for deserved catastrophic (CAT) accident benefits: http://news.nationalpost.com/
No one likes to think about being involved in a car accident. And yet, in 2014 (the most recent year for which stats are available), more than 47,000 Ontario residents were injured in collisions. Accidents can happen in the blink of an eye, in ways that you have no control over. And the consequences of an auto accident can affect the rest of your life.
It’s the only way for patients to seek justice when they’ve been harmed by health-care error, but Canada’s medical-malpractice system is itself rife with controversy.
A Medicine Hat woman’s legal battle is raising questions about whether people with disabilities are being fairly represented in court.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
TORONTO, Dec. 20, 2016–Among homeless adults with mental illness, having a history of head injuries is associated with a greater risk of adverse health conditions, new research indicates.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub
Defamation is an injury of sorts. Granted, it’s not a bodily harm exactly of the type we see in motor vehicle collisions, or the other types of intangible harms we see in non-pecuniary damages. Instead, defamation deals with a harm to a reputation.
http://www.slaw.ca/2016/12/18/
The provincial agency will now issue legal aid certificates only to people facing a “substantial likelihood” of incarceration. Thousands of others fighting criminal charges but facing consequences other than being behind bars, such as deportation or fines, are no longer eligible.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/