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The Ford Government’s January 13, 2021 Critical Care Triage Protocol Would Make Every Triage Doctor a Law Unto Themselves, Denying Due Process or Fair Procedure to Patients Whose Lives Are In Jeopardy

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January 26, 2021

SUMMARY

The Ford Government’s January 13, 2021 Critical Care Triage Protocol Would Make Every Triage Doctor a Law Unto Themselves, Denying Due Process or Fair Procedure to Patients Whose Lives Are In Jeopardy. Read full article.

CBC Program Reveals Disturbing Fact that, Far From Objective Scientific Decisions, Ontario Critical Care Triage Could Involve Doctors Guesstimating and Improvising When Deciding Which Patients Should be Refused Life-Saving Critical Medical Care They Need

And Other News on The Triage Issue

January 25, 2021

SUMMARY

CBC Program Reveals Disturbing Fact that, Far From Objective Scientific Decisions, Ontario Critical Care Triage Could Involve Doctors Guesstimating and Improvising When Deciding Which Patients Should be Refused Life-Saving Critical Medical Care They Need. Read full article.

Even More Reason to Worry About Secret Ontario Plans Regarding Rationing or Triage of Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Is Revealed in Two Newspaper Articles and a Letter Secretly Sent to Ontario Hospitals

January 22, 2021

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Even More Reason to Worry About Secret Ontario Plans Regarding Rationing or Triage of Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Is Revealed in Two Newspaper Articles and a Letter Secretly Sent to Ontario Hospitals. Read full article.

Ontario Urged to Suspend Need for Consent Before Withdrawing Life Support When COVID Crushes Hospitals

Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News (skirkey@postmedia.com)
Published: January 21, 2021

Dr. James Downar: Were talking about a scenario where the focus is no longer on the individual himself, but now on our population as a whole.

Canadas Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that a major Toronto Hospital could not withdraw life-support from a minimally conscious and severely brain-damaged man without his familys consent.

Ontario Urged to Suspend Need for Consent Before Withdrawing Life Support When COVID Crushes Hospitals. Read full article.

Ontario Patients to Be Ranked for Life-Saving Care Should ICUs Become Full, Documents Show

Codi Wilson Web Content Writer, CP24
Published Monday, January 18, 2021

TORONTO –Patients with the greatest chance of survival beyond 12 months should be prioritized for critical care in the event that overwhelmed Ontario hospitals need to begin rationing life-saving treatments, the provincial government said in a document sent to hospitals earlier this month.

Ontario Patients to Be Ranked for Life-Saving Care Should ICUs Become Full, Documents Show. Read full article.