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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: gg cox who wrote (5378)3/27/2008 2:09:06 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
There is a possibility that we could be sued in a class action by those people who receive this proposed correspondence whose test results do not change. Otherwise these people would not have a cause of action, so sending the letter actually exposes us to a liability which does not now exist," Boone wrote to Heather Predham, Eastern Health's risk management consultant.

"I do not see how the letter advances the health care of the affected patients and it increases our exposure to claims for damages. I would recommend against sending it."

Instead, Eastern Health phoned patients to tell them their breast cancer tissue samples were being retested "to allow for dialogue and to ensure understanding," according to minutes of a board meeting a week later.

But that account contrasts with testimony from patients and relatives of deceased patients who have told the inquiry that Eastern Health wasn't keeping them in the loop about the test results.

The inquiry is focusing on Eastern Health's handling of hormone receptor tests, which are a valuable tool that doctors use in determining the course of treatment for breast cancer patients.


It was a government cover up by the Canadian Eastern Health system. Despite their attempts to cover it up it eventually became public knowledge. The way I read it there appear to be quite a few casualties of the cover up.
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