A Port Hardy emergency room doctor who was stripped of his emergency room privileges last week says he will say more about the matter at a news conference in Victoria today.
Nataros’s medical duties are restricted to clinic and 10-patient hospital ward work. His week-long ER stint at Lady Minto Hospital on Salt Spring Island, scheduled to start today, has been cancelled.Nataros said he has been harassed by Williams, and cites a “cold call” from Williams in mid-January. Williams said that on Jan. 30, an Island Health patient care and safety leader was alerted to a “very serious” patient complaint that raised concern about Nataros’s ability to safely practise in the ER.
Faced with pulling a physician out of an ER that was already understaffed, Williams said he weighed many factors “but the most important one was patient safety.” Health Minister Adrian Dix has expressed “total confidence” in Williams, saying “he’s acting in the best interests of patients in his view.”
Nataros, who began part-time in the north Island in August and became full-time in November, said he has poured concrete for a home in Port Hardy, has a sailboat and is a deeply embedded member of the community.The north Island is grappling with a shortage of staff and physician departures that have led to ongoing overnight and weekend emergency room closures at the Port McNeill and Port Hardy hospitals.
Dr. Ben Williams proudly shows who the boss is, blocking Dr. Nataros from treating ER people. Rather than throwing a Trudeau hissy fit, Williams should head up Island and help out. People will suffer because another ER is short-staffed. Canada is broken.
When is Island health and Adrian Dicks going to get investigated, this is disgusting what they are doing to the health care of this province
When is this doctor going to speak?
This is about the time when, if you're a healthcare worker in remote areas and if you're ever going to stand up - it's now. Don't hide behind him and wait for him to get pummeled. STAND WITH HIM. Power in numbers. It's not the docs that have been the problem. healthcare Doctors
I could take over his job at Salt Spring.
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