Health Sciences 3101A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canada Health Act, Vicarious Liability, Infection
9 Dec 2016
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There has been a 4-fold increase of civil suits against physicians and 65 fold increase in total costs. By injecting law into social institutions, you improve he quality of said institution: this is wrong. Zamboni: increasing fiscal restraint to streamline services. Courts support health professionals that act reasonably and in good faith. Only covers insured health services and insured persons (residents for more than 3 months) Part 3 common criminal offences, the civil law process and elected tort actions. Simple applying force to another without consent, or threatening to apply force when you obviously have the upper hand: weapon/causing bodily harm. Carrying, threatening to use, or imitating a weapon. More than transient: aggravated wounding, maiming, disfiguring, or endangering, sexual assault. Consent of a person under 16 is not a defence unless: 12 or 13 and accused is less than 2 years older. 14 or 15 and the accused is less than 5 years older: sexual exploitation.
