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March 17, 2020
The Duty to Provide Care A pandemic situation presents unprecedented challenges as organizations prepare to meet unforeseen demands and challenges and as individuals face their own […]
March 17, 2020
Tragic Triage, Thinking About – and Planning for the Unthinkable. What if… What if we don’t manage to “flatten the curve?” What if the health […]
November 14, 2019
In October the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in the McKitty v. Hayani case. McKitty v. Hayani, 2019 ONCA 805 http://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2019/2019ONCA0805.pdf Despite the fact […]
November 8, 2019
Some of the key features of the judgment are as follows: DNR, standards of care and consent The judgment turns on consent, and the consent […]
October 30, 2019
In August 2019 the Ontario Superior Court released its judgment in the case of Wawrzyniak v Livingstone, https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2019/2019onsc4900/2019onsc4900.html The events at the heart of this story […]
January 8, 2019
Taquisha McKitty, the woman at the centre of legal challenges concerning the definition of death died (or maybe died again) on December 31st 2018. Taquisha died, […]