A doctor is refreshingly honest about his medical mistake

Of course, only in Canada where the threat of multi-million dollar rewards is significantly less:

“I think it did (put him at risk), in retrospect,” Hussain said Thursday. “And also I think he got sicker in those few hours.”

Hussain said he knew the patient had a bad infection, but did not have the intensive care support staff required to properly drain the infection from the patient’s body at Selkirk Hospital. He said he waited to transfer the patient to HSC because he did not know the patient was in septic shock until the morning of Jan. 31.

“I knew there was an infection, but the delay … probably it may have been better if he had been transferred Sunday night (Jan. 30),” he said.

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