scholarly journals Exploring Health Professional Criminality and Competence Using the Case of Canadian Health Care Serial Killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer

2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Ai-Leng Foong-Reichert ◽  
Kelly A. Grindrod ◽  
Sherilyn K.D. Houle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care ◽  
Regulatory Bodies

ABSTRACT Health professional criminal behavior and clinical incompetence are distinct concepts that both endanger the public. In this paper, we compare and contrast these concepts using the case of convicted Canadian health care serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer, who also exhibited a pattern of clinical incompetence throughout her career. As one Canadian province is proposing changes to self-regulation to become more like the United Kingdom, we highlight four ways to improve protection of the public in a self-regulating system. These include meta-regulation, standardized hiring practices, increased transparency by regulatory bodies and improved communication across regulators and other agencies.

scholarly journals Neo-Weberianism and changing state-profession relations: the case of Canadian health care

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey L. Adams ◽  
Mike Saks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Health Profession ◽  
The Self ◽  
Knee Jerk ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Canadian Health Care

Professions now operate in a more critical modern Western societal context. This has typically led to a major political challenge by the state to the self-regulation of such groups. It is argued, though, that the reasons for this are more complex than a knee-jerk reaction to the growing number of emerging professional scandals. Accordingly, tools are provided from a neo-Weberian perspective to analyse changes in state-profession relations — bringing state actors to the fore in a novel way. Their application is illustrated mainly through a case study of Canadian health profession regulation.

The Canadian Health Care Conundrum

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
BRYAN R. FINE
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care

Separation or Synthesis: A Holistic Approach to Therapeutics

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
Kathi J. Kemper
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Specialized Health Care ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Spiritual Healers

Over the past 50 years, health care has grown more complex and specialized. Health-care institutions now are staffed with an array of specialist physicians, social workers, psychologists, therapists, and nutritionists as well as general practitioners and nurses. The types of providers outside of the hospital are even more numerous and diverse: physicians; nurses; nurse practitioners; chiropractors; counselors; acupuncturists; herbalists; spiritual healers; and purveyors of nutritional supplements, aromatherapy, crystals, and more. Intent on distinguishing their "products," providers focus on differences, polarizing into distinct camps such as "mainstream or traditional" versus "alternative or unconventional." Although these dichotomies are simple, they also can mislead. The definition of "alternative" is very dependent on the definition "mainstream"; acupuncture may be an alternative in one setting, but it clearly is traditional within Asian communities. Therapies that once were considered unconventional, such as hypnosis and meditation, have moved into many mainstream medical settings. (See Sugarman article "Hypnosis: Teaching Children Self-regulation" in the January 1996 issue of Pediatrics in Review.) The public wants health care that is low-cost, safe, effective, and personalized. Practitioners of "natural" therapies often are viewed as more humanistic and less technological than busy physicians. According to one study, in 1990, alternative medical therapies were used by nearly one third of Americans.1

Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care

1985 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 762
Author(s):  
J. J. Madden ◽  
Robert G. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care
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