You have under your care a terminally ill cancer patient in the final stages of disease. A physician in Nova Scotia recently had charges of murdering a terminally ill cancer patient thrown out of court. A patient is known to have a living will. You are assigned to an Inuit community near James Bay. Some groups promote the capitation method of physician payment.
Canadian doctors face constant pressure to migrate south of the border to practice.
A woman has recently filed a 2.4 million dollar suit against a hospital in Hamilton since she experienced pain during child-birth. A patient presents to the hospital with head and neck injuries after a bar fight. The patient is very combative and is constantly swearing at you to release him from the hospital immediately. You discuss the vaccination schedule which you are so accustomed to doing. The mother informs you she does not want her child to be vaccinated.