When the doctor says sorry

It’s been a dozen years since health-care apology laws came to Canada, but do they work?

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, centre, pictured with Liberal MP Ruby Sahota, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc, and Liberal MPs David Graham, and Anita Vandenbeld. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY PAUL G. THOMAS

April 16, 2018

WINNIPEG—My introduction to the complex and emotional world of adverse events in health care occurred in 2001 when I chaired a committee to review an inquest report into the tragic deaths of 12 infants in a paediatric surgery program in Manitoba. Justice Murray Sinclair who conducted the inquest h...

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