Abstract

Liability for Delays in Diagnosis – Waiting for Trouble?

Highlights

  • Dr Thomas R Todd is a Senior Medical Officer of the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA)

  • The courts have held that the waiting times for colonoscopies – even with hospitals owe an independent duty of care to symptoms – can be measured in years in some patients, and have been held liable for breaches areas

  • Could have informed the referring physician that the wait time PA: We have seen patients attempt legal action against family for consultation was excessive for a case of rectal bleeding physicians and gastroenterologists for inability to provide if carcinoma is a possibility

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Introduction

Dr Thomas R Todd is a Senior Medical Officer of the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA). TT: Hospitals and health authorities should waiting time crisis for clinic assessments and be informed by the physician when the endoscopy.

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