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North Carolina Firm Recalls Chicken Salad Products Due To Possible
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Catherine Cochran
(202) 720-9113
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2012 -
Bost Distributing Company doing business as Harold Food Company, a Bear Creek, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,200 pounds of chicken salad products. The products contain eggs that are the subject of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recall due to concerns about contamination with
Listeria monocytogenes
, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following products are subject to recall:
30-lb. boxes of "Harold Food Co. Grand Strand Deluxe Chicken Salad."
Recommendations for people at risk for Listeriosis
Wash hands with warm, soapy water before and after handling raw meat and poultry for at least 20 seconds. Wash cutting boards, dishes and utensils with hot, soapy water. Immediately clean spills.
Keep raw meat, fish and poultry away from other food that will not be cooked. Use separate cutting boards for raw meat, poultry and egg products and cooked foods.
Do not eat hot dogs, luncheon meats, bologna or other deli meats unless reheated until steaming hot.
Do not eat refrigerated paté, meat spreads from a meat counter or smoked seafood found in the refrigerated section of the store. Foods that don't need refrigeration, like canned tuna and canned salmon, are safe to eat. Refrigerate after opening.
Do not drink raw (unpasteurized) milk and do not eat foods that have unpasteurized milk in them.
Do not eat salads made in the store such as ham salad, chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad or seafood salad.
Do not eat soft cheeses such as Feta, quesco blanco, quesco fresco, Brie, Camembert cheeses, blue-veined cheeses and Panela unless it is labeled as made with pasteurized milk.
Use precooked or ready-to-eat food as soon as you can.
can grow in the refrigerator. The refrigerator should be 40° F or lower and the freezer 0° F or lower. Use an appliance thermometer to check the temperature of your refrigerator.
Each box has a "Sell By" date of 2/15/2012 and bears the establishment number "P-20479" inside the USDA mark of inspection. The products were sent to a distributor in South Carolina for further distribution to retail establishments in North Carolina and South Carolina. The chicken salad products may have been repackaged as sandwiches under a brand other than Harold Food Co. and no longer bear the identifying information listed above.
Through a follow-up investigation of the FDA's recall of hard-cooked eggs sold by Michael Foods Egg Products Co., it was determined that Bost Distributing Company had received hard-cooked eggs that may be contaminated with
Listeria monocytogenes
. The chicken salad products contain the recalled eggs and are the subject of this FSIS recall. FSIS, FDA, and the company have received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of these products.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify that recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website at: www.fsis.usda.gov/
Consumption of food contaminated with
Listeria monocytogenes
can cause listeriosis, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Healthy people rarely contract listeriosis. However, listeriosis can cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea. Listeriosis can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths, as well as serious and sometimes fatal infections in those with weakened immune systems, such as infants, the elderly and persons with HIV infection or undergoing chemotherapy. Individuals concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider.
Consumers and media with questions about the recall should contact Bost Distributing Company's General Manager, Jeff Bennett, at (919) 775-5931.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at
or via smartphone at
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Democratic incumbents hold early leads in 45th District race
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November 7, 2012 · Updated 9:56 AM
First general election results show a large advantage for the Democratic incumbents for both seats in the 45th District race.
Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland, leads against Republican Joel Hussey for the Position 1 seat with 56.18_43.74 percent, or 22,236 votes to 17,313.
Rep. Larry Springer, D-Kirkland, leads against Republican Jim Thatcher for the Position 2 seat with 57.14_42.78 percent, or 22,535 votes to 16,871.
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Devils on Hatchback
Author Notes: I get more requests for my Devils on Horseback than any other snack time party food that I make; and mine, I'm sure, are just like everyone elses: dates stuffed with cheese, wrapped in bacon, baked til they are crispy as a critter. This is my variation on that classic bite. I use roasted Hatch Green Chiles ('round these parts, Hatch Chiles are gold) and cream cheese to accompany the bacon. The mild spiciness of the pepper is a lovely compliment to the saltiness of the bacon and the sweetness of the cheese (and the honey that I drizzle on towards the end). Cambozola (a German brie-style blue cheese) or any semi firm cheese that you like would be a lovely alternative, but I like to use cream cheese because it is a crowd pleaser. And just between you and me, I just watched a certain citrus-fruit sister eat twelve. And they came out of the oven four minutes ago. - Helenthenanny - Helenthenanny
Food52 Review: Helenthenanny knows how to pack a lot of flavors into a tiny movie snack. We love how the hatchbacks are indulgent yet not gratuitous: there's salty, smoky bacon, a hint of honey, jabs of heat from the chiles and peppercorns, and a blast of cream cheese that cools everything off. We do have one fix: the last step should say, "Chase with a good, cold beer!" - A&M - A&M
Serves 40
- 20 fresh Hatch green chile peppers, or New Mexico green chile peppers
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 20 slices of thin, center cut bacon
- 1 tablespoon honey, or maybe more, its just for drizzling
- black pepper
- Roast the Hatch peppers. To do this, put the peppers on a baking sheet and broil them until they are black on the outside, turning occasionally. Then, remove them from the oven, and put them in a ziploc bag so that they can steam for ten minutes. Then take out the peppers and rub them gently so that all the charred skin comes off of the peppers. This can be done ahead of time and they also freeze beautifully.
- Cut the peppers in half and cut the stem end off as well. Make one slit lengthwise through the pepper halves and open them up so that you can see inside. Remove some of the seeds and vein (leave in more if you like your devils spicier).
- Put about a teaspoon of cream cheese in the center of each pepper half, wrap the pepper around it so that it closes, then place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Do not worry if your tender peppers tear and you can see the cheese come through a bit, the bacon will help contain everything.
- Cut the twenty strips of bacon in half and wrap around each little devil and place back on the baking sheet. Be sure to place them seam side down so that the bacon doesn't curl and open up in the oven. Crack black pepper over the devils and put them in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Some of your cheese may ooze out of your devils, but not to worry, because they will still be delicious!
- After 45 minutes, drizzle a generous amount of honey over the devils and bake for 5 more minutes. Take them out of the oven and pop them into your mouth.
- Your Best Movie Snack Contest Finalist!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Chili Pepper Recipe
Tags: bacon, cream cheese, hatch chiles, peppers
Comments (55) Questions (1)
3 months ago mymymier
I use jalapenos. They were a hit!
4 months ago butterchi
I used jalapenos... fun and delicious!
almost 2 years ago VanillaBeanQueen
I'm making these for a bbq. I already want to attack them but I've been told I can't. Really NOT fair considering how good they are smelling!! I took neufchatel, local honey and amish gorgonzola then wizzed them all in the food processor. The mix was worthy of spreading onto crackers! Now I do the 'hurry up and cook' dance as I await these gems to finish cooking!
almost 2 years ago Erinpk
This recipe is one of my favorites!! I snazzed (although it's already pretty snazzy!) it up a bit by putting a prawn in the center with the cream cheese. What a hit!! Thank you for posting.
Also, for people that cannot find hatch peppers (me!), I used jalepenos but made sure all the seeds and veins (white string like stuff) were removed since that's where the peppers heat is stored. They were a great substitute!!
over 2 years ago Hilarybee
So, I nearly burnt down my kitchen whilst making the devils for the Beatles Bash.
The devils were saved and they were a huge success.
Here is a linky regarding the near destruction of my kitchen.
almost 2 years ago Helenthenanny
i'm so sorry for the delay, i somehow missed this comment, but i am so happy you enjoyed my recipe! and also, i made the same mistake once (using a sideless baking sheet for the devils) and had a very similar grease experience!! yes, baking sheets with sides are best! you have a lovely blog, and thank you again!
over 1 year ago Hilarybee
I made them again last week for a party. Sided baking sheets this time!! They were better this time, knowing that my kitchen was safe and sound.
over 2 years ago John Ryan Brooks
Any ideas about a non-dairy cheese to substitute for the cream cheese? Would goat cheese be weird? (I just posted the same question on Foodpickle.)
over 2 years ago Helenthenanny
Goat cheese would be phenomenal! If it were me, I would add in a little honey to the goat cheese (in addition to the honey drizzle at the end). Daiya cheese is my favorite vegan cheese product. It's the best, but it's a great melting cheese, so I'd be prepared for some oozing. Sheeps milk cheese has the highest fat content and the least amount of lactose (compared to cow and goat) so if you can find a semi firm sheeps milk cheese, that might be nice too, if lactose is the trouble. I hope you like them, please let me know how it goes!
over 3 years ago markmannephotos
this was my first recipe from food52....although I could not get the right peppers I tried it anyway.....delicious. I hope I get better at them (and the right peppers) soon.
You can see a photo of my attempt at
over 3 years ago kmpmilano
Hey, just wanted you to know that someone in Italy wanted to make yr recipe, too! However, I didn't follow yr salient advice to try the peppers first and boy, oh boy, were those buggers HOT! They don't really delineate here in Italy (except pasta, of which there are about 10 million types) so I was only able to buy "pepperoni piccanti" (hot peppers). And they sure were! As you said, the heat overwhelmed the taste. Next time I'll try and find some milder peppers.
But yr recipe did encourage me to enlist in Food52 so I could make this comment!
over 3 years ago nannydeb
Congratulations on making it to a finalist. Your recipe is great!
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Whatever, I was robbed and I'm livid.
just kidding ; ) thank you so much!
over 3 years ago Jaynerly
Help! Really want to try this recipe but as far as I know there is no such thing as a hatch pepper in the UK! Will it work with an alternative?
over 3 years ago
pierino is a trusted source on General Cooking and Tough Love.
It's not my recipe but you ought to be able to find fresh peppers from Spain in UK. Or Israel. Perhaps, something along the lines of piquillo? The Hatch pepper from New Mexico has a long shape which makes it easy to fill with other ingredients.
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Oh hooray, what fun! This really made me giddy to find out that someone would make my food in the UK! Thank you! I don't think I agree with Pierino though, unless his suggestions mean easily obtainable ingredients for you. Don't go to too much trouble because this recipe will totally work with an alternative pepper! Please use any spicy pepper that y'all have over there (do you have jalapenos?) and can get easily! This recipe is no stickler for rules or pomposity, use what you like and don't worry about the size of the pepper, you can easily adjust this recipe to suit your needs : ) My only request is that you taste the pepper before you make these little devils; if you do have and decide to use jalapenos, or god help you habaneros, as they are MUCH spicier then the mild Hatch and the heat would overpower the deliciousness! Thanks again, and please let me know if and how it went! I'm curious as to what pepper you might use!
over 3 years ago NakedBeet
Will have to find some Anaheim peppers now-thanks for the tip. Two sisters and two excellent recipes. How the heck am I going to choose? Can't they just both go in??? ; )
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
a belated but much appreciated thank you naked beet!!
over 3 years ago NakedBeet
Going to find the Anaheim peppers-thanks for the tip. So, two sister and two excellent recipes. How the heck am I going to choose? Can't they just both go in? ; )
over 3 years ago kxr173
These are delicious! I made mine with pineapple cream cheese for added contrast to the heat of the peppers and salt/amoke of the bacon. Sooooooo good and they are the devil because you can eat way too many than you should in one sitting!
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Oh man. Genius. GENIUS!! That's such a good idea, it totally makes me want to throw on a Teriyaki glaze instead of the honey. I definitely will at the next luau : ) Thank you so much, I'm really glad that you made and liked them!
over 3 years ago Brigette
I had to vote for Devils on Hatchback because I find the smell of roasted (or grilled) chilies intoxicating, and I am a devout bacon lover. I cannot wait to try these nibbles! I'll have to turn the movie up really loud on account of the moaning I'll be doing. Fo sho.
over 3 years ago Sonali aka the Foodie Physician
I recently celebrated my anniversary at The Spotted Pig in NYC where we enjoyed one of their trademark dishes- devils on horseback. These look like a really great twist, I can't wait to try them!
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Thank you, and Happy Anniversary!
over 3 years ago timWuNotWoo
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Thank you!!!
over 3 years ago KelseyTheNaptimeChef
These looks seriously amazing, now I have to go pepper shopping.
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Thanks : )
over 3 years ago nannydeb
Both recipes look great and will make a fun happy hour tomorrow!
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Yes! Have a fun happy hour! Thanks : )
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
Hey friends! I hate you. Well, no, hate is too strong a word, but I strongly dislike you. You may want to go vote for those olives, which I've eaten and are a far superior snack. Seriously. Don't make me come over there.
over 3 years ago arielleclementine
you're a lovely sister! but the world needs to know about devils on hatchback! they are tasty, tasty, little treats! i could eat them by the bucketful!
over 3 years ago QueenOfGreen
You two are killing me - not only sisters, but two REALLY good recipes. I've only got a few more hours to figure out a King Solomon solution... Well, good luck to both of you, and either way, *I* win with the yummy snacks!
over 3 years ago KatieATX
Please come over after your play is done and cook these for me :) Thanks, boo.
over 3 years ago Helenthenanny
You got it girl, vote for Arielle not me or I'll kill you. See you tonight!


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T.G. wrote:Here's a three-part article I've been working on re: the crisis in the Canadian medical system. Apologies for the length of this, but there's lots of grist for the mill, as they say ...
Every year, it takes up a huge chunk of federal and provincial budgets, is thought to kill 24,000 born people – and another 100,000 or so pre-born persons - and is rife with fraud to the tune of up to $10 billion. What is it?
Why, the Canadian medical system, of course. At a time when health care ranks as the top, or almost the top, priority for the Canadian electorate, surprisingly little attention is paid to the myriad of serious problems plaguing the system, apart from what is often ballyhooed as chronic funding shortages.
Readers should note that this article is by no means is meant to denigrate the professionalism, dedication and integrity of individuals working heroically within the Canadian medical system to save lives and maintain individuals' good health. Instead, it is intended to serve more as an indictment of the leaderships within the Canadian medical system – those individuals and entities that are often seen shilling for the abortion and contraceptive industries and the like. Those leaders have also thrown out the classic Hippocratic Oath and pay lip service to ethics within both training and practical regimens.
In beginning our look at the Canadian medical system, it is worthwhile to examine some overall numbers. As alluded to at the outset, Canada's health care system gobbles up what can only be described as astronomical sums of money for perhaps-questionable returns. It is known that, according to a the Canadian Institute for Health Information report, health care spending in Canada saw an increase of nearly $100 billion within a 20-year span, from $37 billion in 1984 to $130 billion in 2004. Ontario alone now spends a remarkable 40 per cent ($32.9 billion) of its entire provincial government budget on health care and yet, the province's hospitals continue to report deficits of half a billion dollars a year.
What are citizens getting for all this money? In what was described by a health services researcher as an "explosive" result, the Canadian Adverse Event Study, the first of its kind in this country, found an astonishing 24,000 hospital Canadians died in the year 2000 at the hands of medical personnel from errors that could have been prevented. In all, some 185,000 fatal and non-fatal mistakes occurred – 7.5 per 100 hospital patients. Nearly a quarter of Canadians – 5.2 million –said they or a family member experienced medical errors or preventable adverse effects while being treated in a hospital.
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Dr. John Wade, chair of a national steering committee on patient safety, wants to change what he described as an environment of fear and blame within the health care profession, in which workers feel uncomfortable about speaking out about errors out of fear of lawsuits or disciplinary action. Others are citing a "culture of silence" within hospitals. It has been reported that hospitals are encouraging the voluntary reporting of mistakes – leading one to ask what they have been doing otherwise: covering them up?
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- While referring to a recent book on the Nancy Oliveiri affair, a professor of medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton suggested whistleblowers in the medical system "face great risks." Dr. Gordon Guyatt says the pharmaceutical industry is facing criticisms for extravagant gift-giving to potential prescribers of its drugs, large payments to experts in positions to make influential recommendations, withholding data from researchers, ghost writing of manuscripts and withholding information on the deleterious effects of its drugs. As well, on the university medical research front, there is a premium on employees serving institutional interests, an increasing intolerance of dissent and criticism and an erosion of academic freedom.
- The sorry state of Canadian health care is fuelling a boom in private care and speedy service in the U.S. In just the past year, such business has as much as tripled.
- Superbug infections are spiralling in Canadian hospitals, killing as many as 8,000 people a year and costing the health system $100 million. Statistics show 250,000 Canadians get sick from preventable infections every year. A CBC News investigation last spring found that restaurants have more germ-fighting regulations to contend with than hospitals do.
- The Canadian Taxpayers Federation projects that at present rates, Ontario will spend an incredible 85 per cent of its entire provincial budget on health care alone. This will be even though the average Canadian family forks over 48 per cent of its income in taxes.
- Doctors who are rude, throw tantrums, or bully patients and co-workers are common enough that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is drafting a program to deal with them. The president of the Ontario Nurses Association said, "This is not fiction. It's a serious problem that has to be dealt with."
- The Canadian Medical Association Journal raised questions about whether governing bodies adequately police potential conflicts on interest in the referral practices of doctors. Two commentaries raised the possibility of doctors receiving kickbacks from diagnostic or supplementary health clinics for referring patients to them or ordering unnecessary tests to be performed in laboratories in which the doctors have a financial interest.
- An Agence France Press article exposed "the secret world of doctors' slang," in which patients are labelled with acronyms such as ATFO ("asked to f--- off") and PAFO ("p----- and fell over"). Another acronym label is DBI, for "dirt-bag index (referring to a patient's hygiene). Patients near death are described as "circling the drain," "good for parts only." The "Q sign" refers to a patient with his tongue hanging out of his mouth in a terminal condition. A British medical official who chronicled the terms agreed they were offensive, but serve to "depersonalize the distress encountered in doctors' everyday working lives … Often, someone else's pain is too much for us, so we cut off."
In all fairness, it must be pointed out that at least one commentary exists contradicting the assertion that 24,000 people die every year from medical errors in Canada. "Improving Patient Safety: Moving Beyond the Hype of Medical Errors," written by Alan J. Forster, Kaveh G. Shojania and Carl van Walraven, was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Oct. 11, 2005. It suggested that the identification of medical errors is "a subjective process" that leads to "wide variations in the reported prevalence of adverse events."
The commentary also noted that most errors only cause temporary symptoms and that there is no assessment of the degree to which an error contributes to a patient's eventual death. Only six per cent of patients who were victimized by a medical error would have been expected to live an additional three months had the errors not occurred, it said.
Regardless of this, however, a survey of anecdotal events shows that in absolute terms, there are still massive problems with our medical system. Where we looked at the situation in general in November, let us now look at some specifics up to April 2004.
- In November 1999, a class action lawsuit was authorized against Montreal's St. Charles Borromee Hospital for allegedly failing to provide even the most basic services for its severely disabled long-term patients. This included neglecting to wash and feed them properly between 1993 and 1997.
- In July 2002, Alfred Potter, a mentally ill man, died in the emergency room of Hamilton's St. Joseph's Hospital after a series of errors by emergency department nurses and a family doctor.
- In October 2002, 11-year-old Claire Lewis died in a Hamilton hospital from what were openly described as "a string of errors and bad decisions" in her care. Her father, a nurse within the Hamilton healthcare system, had to spend months fighting the hospital to accept its responsibility in the death, before it coughed up an unprecedented letter of apology.
- In September 2003, a $4.6 million lawsuit was filed against Hamilton fertility doctor Salim Daya for unethically conducting an unofficial clinical trial on a patient, which included a sham operation.
- In October 2003, doctors were reported to be continuing to prescribe the anti-depressants Paxil and Effexor to teenagers despite warnings of dangerous side effects, including increased risks of suicidal thoughts.
- Also in October 2003, a joint conference of the Canadian Bioethics Society and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities heard that hospitals in the Western world allow interns and residents to practise resuscitation techniques on newly deceased patients without consent.
- The same month, the boss of a probe into the Canadian SARS outbreak said a massive overhaul of the public health system was needed to address weaknesses including a lack of basic public health tools.
- In November 2003, Zambian-born Regina Dr. John Schneeberger, who was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting two of his patients, was released from prison to calls for deportation from a federal MP.
- Also in November 2003, an advisory was issued after Captain William Jackman Hospital in Labrador City may have used unsterile instruments in its gynecology clinic over a one-and-a-half-year period.
- The same month, the Kansas City Star newspaper unearthed documents that revealed Red Cross officials in Canada and the U.S. in the early 1980s were more concerned with legal requirements than with halting the spread of Hepatitis C in blood supplies. It wasn't until 1990 that testing for the disease was begun in Canada.
- The same month, Whitby, Ont. obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Errol Wai-Ping appeared before a disciplinary committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on charges that included botched hysterectomies, deliveries and gynecological procedures, life-threatening infections after surgery, unnecessary hysterectomies and failure to diagnose cancer.
- In January 2004, the Quebec College of Physicians launched an investigation into the case of Montreal pediatric surgeon Maria Di Lorenzo, who was infected with the AIDS virus, but continued operating on children for 13 years without medical administrators being aware of her condition.
- The same month, the Ontario Ministry of Health admitted that medical instruments manufactured for single use – including forceps, scissors and speculums – were being reused by Ontario hospitals. By then, nine hospitals were forced to alert former patients that they might have been exposed to instruments that weren't properly sterilized.
- In February 2004, the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of paramedics Sebastien Valade and Martin Gariepy, who refused to treat a dying man because they were on a break when they were called on to help.
- In March 2004, federal Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said Health Canada's medical device protocols so lacked credibility, they are routinely ignored by hospital and lab workers. That put Canadians using pregnancy tests, pacemakers, MRIs and some forms of birth control at risk.
- In April 2004, Hamilton surgeon Dr. Daniel Bowser, whose patient died because he failed to properly communicate instructions for the man's care, was ordered to pay almost $1.3 million as a result of a lawsuit.
- The same month, about 175 hip surgery patients over a six-year period were recalled by Montreal General Hospital because a surgical instrument used in operations performed on them may not have been properly sterilized.
- In March 2003, Ontario's chief medical officer was accused by an expert on infectious diseases of concealing the extent of the 2002 West Nile virus outbreak. The expert said he had "begged" Dr. Colin D'Cunha to notify the public about outbreaks of the disease, which killed at least 11 people.
- In May 2003, the father of a 17-month old boy who died in 2001 told a coroner's inquest that paramedics ignored his and his wife's pleas to transport their feverish child to hospital. This was after four earlier trips to the hospital in which doctors didn't help the boy's fever, vomiting and crying. Writing later on the matter, Toronto Sun columnist Michelle Mandel called the Canadian healthcare system "a shameful, tragic mess."
- In August 2003, a coroner's investigation revealed that paramedics in Burlington, Ont. mistakenly administered morphine, instead of adrenaline, to a dying seven-year-old boy. In the boy's particular case, the morphine slowed breathing and caused a drop in blood pressure, as well as unconsciousness. This could have led to his death.
- In September 2003, a television documentary entitled Bloody Disgrace contradicted the federal government's claims that nothing could have been done prior to 1986 to curb the spread of Hepatitis C through tainted blood. In fact, U.S. blood experts – with whom Canadian experts worked closely - as early as 1981 were recommending donated blood undergo tests to indicate the likely presence of the virus.
- In May 2004, a third First Nations family was actually mailed the remains of their miscarried baby. Provincial Health Minister George Smitherman said he was "angered and deeply concerned" at the way "human tissue" was being handled.
- Also that month, a former male nurse at Toronto's Sick Children's Hospital was arrested on child pornography charges. Scott Faichnie also had photos of patients in his possession.
- Again in May 2004, Saskatchewan's College of Physicians and Surgeons appointed a physician to review the deaths of 88 people who had been treated at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital. The 88 had not been seen within times set by national guidelines and died within 48 hours.
- Also the same month, a Winnipeg man said he was told to lie on a waiting room floor while experiencing heart palpitations at his city's Grace General Hospital. Stephen Fielding said he was told he would have to lie on the floor because no stretchers were available.
- Also the same month, a Winnipeg woman said she endured a two-and-a-half-year nightmare as she tried to learn how and why her 86-year-oldmother died in a city hospital. Apparently, Manitoba's privacy laws prevented her from finding out what went wrong in her mother's treatment.
- Also the same month, Calgary dental surgeon Dr. Douglas Vincelli agreed to pay $3 million to a patient immobilized by chronic pain after he treated her about a decade earlier.
- And also the same month, a Toronto Star article reported that many Ontario nursing home residents die each year from abuse and neglect – including broken bones, oozing bedsores, medical errors, over-medication and untreated constipation. The provincial coroner had not held even one inquest scrutinizing the inadequate care that ultimately kills some elderly.
- In June 2004, a 69-year-old Red Deer, Alta. man died after receiving the wrong painkilling medication. Three months earlier, two Calgary patients died after being given the wrong medications during dialysis treatments.
- Also in June 2004, Windsor, Ont. residents were complaining that their doctors were cherrypicking patients by shutting out those with chronic illnesses and denying basic care. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario said there are no guidelines, moral obligations or laws against physicians selectively choosing whom they will treat.
- The same month, a Montreal doctor said "dirty hospitals" were to blame for a huge increase in a potentially deadly type of diarrhea that killed as many as 79 people over a period of a year and a half.
- The same month, disgusted relatives pulled stroke victim Christina Jackson out of Victoria, B.C.'s Royal Jubilee Hospital after she was placed in a storage closet. Hospital officials characterized the move as "a creative solution to an ongoing bed shortage."
- In July 2004, the first study of its kind in Canada found that five per cent of 2,000 chest-pain patients rushed to two Vancouver hospitals were discharged inappropriately by doctors who had misdiagnosed them. Heart attacks and unstable angina were commonly missed by the physicians.
- Also in July 2004, three Health Canada scientists were fired for daring to criticize their department's drug approval policies. The three said they were often pressured to approve unsafe veterinary drugs.
- The same month, a Windsor, Ont. couple was left in shock after their two-year-old son died at home following what was described as "simple day surgery" to remove his tonsils and adenoids.
- The same month, it was discovered that London, Ont. doctor Tenzin Rabgey, who committed suicide, had hundreds of thousands of child porn images on his computers.
- In August 2004, a B.C. woman died in a White Rock hospital after what the family alleged was hospital bureaucracy. The woman's uncle, who had rushed her to the hospital, was told, "I'm sorry, sir, you'll have to call an ambulance … that's our policy, sir."
- Also in August 2004, an Emergency Care Task Force in Winnipeg identified the need to "look at all our processes … look at the whole system" after a string of high-profile tragedies in the city's hospitals. They included the death of a woman who perished from a heart attack after waiting in the emergency room for six hours.
- The same month, the Canadian practice of reusing single-use medical devices was being described as "still common" and "routine." A medical device manufacturers association described the results of such practices as "disastrous" and said patients were being exposed to needless risks on a daily basis. Meanwhile, the Canadian Medical Association Journal said Canadian hospitals were in the "dark ages" when it came to containing sometimes-fatal bacteria in their midst.
- In September 2004, two B.C. parents accused the medical system of failing them after their six-year-old daughter died because of a diagnosis of a bacterial infection that came too late.
- In October 2004, the Peter Lougheed Centre hospital in Calgary discarded a woman's miscarried baby into a trash compactor. The baby's remains had been left sitting in a plastic bag on an emergency room counter before the disposal.
- The same month, it was reported that young children in Saskatchewan can literally have to wait years for surgery within their home province.
- In November 2004, a mixup at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre left a premature baby's body at the hospital for two weeks as the baby's family buried only the placenta and fetal membranes, thinking they were the baby's body.
- The same month, a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reported that Canadian heart attack victims are dying because crowded emergency rooms are leading to life-threatening delays in the administration of clot-clearing drugs.
- In December 2004, police investigated the disappearance of a 17-week-old stillborn baby from St. Catharines General Hospital in Ontario. The hospital said after a search it had "somehow" lost the 1.7-ounce, 15-centimetre baby.
- In January 2005, a study reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that dozens of children leave hospital emergency departments every day without being seen by a doctor because of overcrowding and lengthy waits for care.
- Also in January 2005, Hamilton grandmother Joanne Blais laid for two-and-a-half days on an uncomfortable stretcher in Henderson General Hospital's emergency department, sometimes in her own vomit, before being diagnosed with a brain tumour. According to news reports, her story didn't shock the chief of emergency medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences, who said patients are commonly lined in hallways.
- In May 2005, four doctors were found guilty of negligence in the death of a Stoney Creek, Ont. woman and were held liable for an award of $186,000. A Superior Court judge said the actions of the four "fell below the standard of skill and care that is reasonably expected of a normal, prudent medical practitioner."
- The Canadian Blood Services agency and Hamilton hospitals in June 2005 refused to discuss a case of tampering that had occurred with records kept on blood given at Hamilton blood donor clinics. The tampering had sparked a massive recall of blood products by the agency two months earlier.
- The same month, staff at Kelowna General Hospital in B.C. refused to treat an unconscious man who had been brought to their site and instead told his transporter to call 911 and wait for an ambulance. Three years earlier, a woman who collapsed just metres from the hospital's emergency room doors had also been told to wait for an ambulance.
- Also in June 2005, the Canadian Union of Public Employees charged hospitals "are becoming an increasingly unsafe environment" because of "bugs that are growing more virulent." In April 2005, 19 people in Port Colborne, Ont. and Welland, Ont. hospitals tested positive for bacteria resistant to antibiotics, while a Kingston hospital in June 2005 reported 30 such cases – some with active infections. A strain of C. difficile bacteria infected 7,000 people, killing 600 of them, in Quebec in the months following April 2003.
- Again in June 2005, Newfoundland doctor Sean Buckingham was hit with eight more criminal charges, including one of uttering threats, for a total of 30 charges in a "sex-for-pills" operation. A second physician, Boyd Goodyear, faced a charge of sexual assault.
- The same month, Ontario's chief coroner ordered a review of Toronto pathologist Dr. Charles Smith, who was accused of mishandling 40 autopsies involving the suspicious deaths of children.
- In facing a charge of conduct unbecoming a doctor, laid by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Windsor, Ont.-area physician Nicholas Rathe admitted in August 2005 that he verbally abused his patients, calling them names and swearing at them.
- In September 2005, two nurses pleaded guilty to professional misconduct in the death of a 10-year-old girl at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. The two admitted they did not adequately monitor the girl, nor did they correctly document her care or condition. A coroner's inquest had earlier ruled the death a homicide.
- In May of this year, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein predicted that the rear end of his successor "will pucker" when he sees the amount that is being spent on health care and by how much that figure is escalating every year. It is expected that healthcare will gobble up 60 per cent of the provincial budget by 2025.
- A June 2006 Hamilton Spectator article asked the question: "How can hospitals stop killing people?" It noted 9,000-24,000 patients are killed by errors every year in Canada, with hundreds alone in the Hamilton Health Sciences system.
- Health Canada announced in July of this year that X-ray induced cancers are killing up to 2,500 Canadians a year, while procedures that use X-rays to guide thin tubes and other devices into blood vessels and arteries have not been tested for radiation safety. Researchers also report that chest X-rays may double or triple the risk of breast cancer in women genetically predisposed to the disease.
sturmgeshutz wrote:As for the article what exactly were the medical staff supposed to do with a mis-carriaging baby? Nothing could be done, so why would they rush her through. Life sucks and certainly isn't fair.
The article doesn't state how far into the pregnancy this woman was, if she was feeling "feverish", how much blood she was losing or if she was having one-sided pain. In these cases she would need to be seen immediately. Was she properly triaged? It simply doesn't say.
My wife is a Medical Professional and one night when she on duty, a obvious upset mom and dad to be, came in and started demanding her book them an ultrasound immediately because the mom was 10 weeks pregnant and was bleeding. My wife said she would be happy to book them one for the following day as sonographers are on call for only emergencies. The dad went off on my wife yelling she didn't realize how much of an emergency it was...
Any bleeding in a pregnancy is very scary both for the woman and her spouse. Until you put yourself into what they were going through -- you can't judge.
Moral of the story is, nothing can be done to stop a miscarrying baby. and an ultrasound would not save the baby, it is diagnostic not therapeutic. the parents were sent away by the emergency Dr. and were given literature about miscarriages.
Maybe it wasn't a miscarriage but some bleeding in which case the woman needed to be examined to determine the cause and be assessed. Simply sending her away with some literature is bad medicine.
Zip.com wrote:The article doesn't state how far into the pregnancy this woman was, if she was feeling "feverish", how much blood she was losing or if she was having one-sided pain. In these cases she would need to be seen immediately. Was she properly triaged? It simply doesn't say.
Any bleeding in a pregnancy is very scary both for the woman and her spouse. Until you put yourself into what they were going through -- you can't judge.
Maybe it wasn't a miscarriage but some bleeding in which case the woman needed to be examined to determine the cause and be assessed. Simply sending her away with some literature is bad medicine.
styky wrote:I have heard of nurses that schedualed week to week who was to call in sick and who was to come in on call and get paid double time. From what I hear it's quite common.
I'd like to also add that you may not know the story but as your article is so inclusive of all the ills of our health system that there is a story you can add....... <a href=http://www.freedomtocare.org/page132.htm>Nurse Blows whistle on Baby Deaths in Winnipeg </a>
T.G. wrote:styky wrote:I have heard of nurses that schedualed week to week who was to call in sick and who was to come in on call and get paid double time. From what I hear it's quite common.
I'd like to also add that you may not know the story but as your article is so inclusive of all the ills of our health system that there is a story you can add....... <a href=http://www.freedomtocare.org/page132.htm>Nurse Blows whistle on Baby Deaths in Winnipeg </a>
I have a friend who's a nurse and to be quite honest, I can't understand all the complaining about money. She makes gazillions of dollars in base salary, overtime and seminar teaching.
Thanks for the tip re: the baby deaths, I'll add it to the list.
styky wrote:There's a game we play when visiting health care centres, it's called spot the skinny nurse. It's a short game.
sturmgeshutz wrote:As for the article what exactly were the medical staff supposed to do with a mis-carriaging baby?
HSMom wrote:sturmgeshutz wrote:As for the article what exactly were the medical staff supposed to do with a mis-carriaging baby?
What they are "supposed" to do is find her a private area where she can miscarry in comfort and privacy. And have a medical professional check on her at least once and give her assurance and calm in a difficult situation.
With this situation hitting the news mutliple times just maybe all knowing medical staff are not handling it with the compassion and seriousness the public, which they are serving, expect.
Zip.com wrote:HSMom wrote:sturmgeshutz wrote:As for the article what exactly were the medical staff supposed to do with a mis-carriaging baby?
What they are "supposed" to do is find her a private area where she can miscarry in comfort and privacy. And have a medical professional check on her at least once and give her assurance and calm in a difficult situation.
With this situation hitting the news mutliple times just maybe all knowing medical staff are not handling it with the compassion and seriousness the public, which they are serving, expect.
I am sure we are hearing only about the uncompassionate ones. All the wonderful doctors and nurses who are caring and compassionate don't sell newspapers, I suppose.
Zip.com wrote:HSMom wrote:sturmgeshutz wrote:As for the article what exactly were the medical staff supposed to do with a mis-carriaging baby?
What they are "supposed" to do is find her a private area where she can miscarry in comfort and privacy. And have a medical professional check on her at least once and give her assurance and calm in a difficult situation.
With this situation hitting the news mutliple times just maybe all knowing medical staff are not handling it with the compassion and seriousness the public, which they are serving, expect.
I am sure we are hearing only about the uncompassionate ones. All the wonderful doctors and nurses who are caring and compassionate don't sell newspapers, I suppose.
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The lush green field were littered with bodies, and the river running through was stained with blood. In the center, upon a small rolling hill, the Avarian flag billowed in the gentle but strong breeze. The colors of an Avarian victory high in the air. Below, a tall Avarian of 6'11", wearing the traditional warrior garb stood gazing over the still battlefield with a hardened face. Upon his wrists were the braclets of an officer, in this case a General. This sturdy Avarian was none other than the Great General Leondis Rito himself, the prodiginal General of the Avarian Army. In the small valley, the Avarian soldiers were rounding the last of their foes.
It had been a campaign of expansionism on Avara's part, not against any established power, but against the indigenous of no-man's land: The Faun People. A primitive tribal race, they Fauns were in the way of progress. At first the Avarian government had attempted peaceful negotiations, but the Fauns stubbornly refused. As settlers trickled out of Avara nevertheless, the Fauns grew violent. It was only out of defense, or so Avarian Government said, that it had come to this.
A long line of Fauns stood in shackles. They had surrended when the battle became hopeless, and were now to become slaves to work on the various resource gathering plants back home in the nestingland. But this was only the first major victory in the no-man's land campaign, and the remaing Faun tribes were angrier than ever. There would be no peace for the Avarian Frontiersmen until this war was settled.