Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 18, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free september polic1 courts doctors lawyer argues mishap not negligence by Pamela Fayerman a lawyer defending a doctor in a malpractice suit argued yesterday that doctors should not be held responsible for unforeseen accidents during citing past cases in which the courts have dismissed claims by patients suing doctors for lawyer Rod Stephenson said patients must Bear the risks of unfortunate occurrences because a doctor can Only be legally expected to exercise the knowledge and judgment of an average not a Stephenson was making his closing argument in the Case of an Oak Bank woman who is suing Robert Milner for negligence because she developed gangrene after an aesthetic was administered in an operation on her knee in head of the department of anaesthesia at Victoria general did not administer the aesthetic but supervised the resident doctor who Lawrence lawyer for plaintiff Jean urged court of Queens Bench Justice Hamilton to make a finding of negligence so the woman could be compensated for hand injuries she sustained after the Needle used to adminis Ter the aesthetic slipped out of a vein into surrounding skin grafted the area of the hand became swollen and and eventually requiring a skin he Al though lloy has conceded the appearance of her hand is cosmetically she claims it int As Strong As before the surgery and Doest resist cold weather As Greenberg said there is no doubt the leak of the a solution called sodium was an unintended but he argued that merely allowing the Needle to penetrate outside the vein was negligence on the part of the Stephenson said there Are no pre administrative tests which can be used to determine if a patient would have a violent As lloy to the chemical if it court has been told by several expert witnesses that Lloys reaction was extremely rare because it was so usually when the pent Othal leaks out of the the Only effect is a Short period of redness and sore you cant look at those and of my god that negligence Stephenson referring to a series of photographic exhibits showing the gangrene lloy Deve in that an Ontario judge said an anaesthetist is required to perform his tasks in conformity with the Standard of a reasonably competent Perfec Tion is not required of mishaps May occur without his being the onus is on a plaintiff to on the balance of that an anaesthetist has departed from this that is required of him by the of judge Hamilton reserved his decision on the lloy is in p ii i is f a 154 Canadian controllers lace disciplinary action for Boycott Pepin announces discipline Ottawa up the Federal government plans to discipline 154 air traffic con trollers who disrupted International travel last month by boycotting flights for two transport minister Jeanluc Pepin said the discipline will Range from reprimands and suspensions without pay to firings in a few cases where there is evidence air safety was jeopardized by irresponsible Pepin the minister made the statement a Day after the Federal court of Canada Dis missed a government request for an order which would have allowed contempt court proceedings against the maximum penalty for contempt is a Fine or one year in government undecided Pepin said the government has not decided whether it will Appeal the court ruling nation by Justice James judge Jerome rejected the governments request on grounds the controllers were genuinely concerned about safety when their Union held the today Boycott of he also said a no strike injunction against the controllers does not apply to the the injunction was issued in a dispute Over the Boycott came a week after the government fired about american controllers for launching an illegal Canadian controllers said air safety was jeopardized by the substitutes replacing the fired the Boycott ended with an agreement that the Union and government set up safety monitoring teams to investigate alleged Haz a transport department spokesman said it was not known when the disciplinary Mea sures would be me said each individual controller has to be right to Appeal the members of the member Canadian air traffic control Asso have the right under Public service Law to Appeal any disciplinary measure imposed by transport department manage they can Appeal through the regular Union grievance procedure and to the Public service staff relations a third party designed to adjudicate in such Union Leader Bill Robertson said any con trollers who feels unjustly disciplined will Appeal any measure imposed by manage Rural municipality of Ritchot Public notice under the planning act re bylaw 2681 the Council of the Rural municipality of Ritchot under the authority of the planning act will hold a Public meeting in the Council 344 main on october at at which time and place Council will receive representations from any persons who wish to make them in respect to bylaw 2661 to Amend bylaw 190 being a bylaw to adopt the Ritchot planning scheme 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