Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Why Front Line Health Care Workers Deserve Respect

In a cutting 1,200 page report released Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Archie Campbell spared no level of authority from criticism. Here's a sample of what he had to say.

“Again and again, health workers in Ontario were told they were safe if they would only do what they were directed to by the hospitals and the government. Again and again, these confident scientific assurances turned out to be tragically wrong.”

“Scientific knowledge changes constantly. Yesterday's scientific dogma is today's discarded fables. When it comes to worker safety in hospitals, we should be driven...by the precautionary principle that reasonable steps to reduce risk should not await scientific certainty.”

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