Officials with the McGill University Health Centre are studying security measures after a woman posing as a doctor approached patients in two hospitals in Montreal.
Monday, surveillance cameras caught a woman, her hair hidden by a scarf, roaming the halls in the General Hospital of Montreal and Royal Victoria hospitals. You can see with a stethoscope around his neck and carrying a stack shirts.
The health centre spokesman Anne Lynch said that the woman approached two patients before staff with him.
"The staff in the sector began to question the individual and realized that person was not a member of the team, Lynch has.
However, at the time where the police has been called the woman had disappeared.
Defender of the rights of patients a well-known Quebec said he had never heard of such a thing happening - outside of a Hollywood film script. "Opportunity how have we to be faced with a madman of pretending to be a doctor?". Paul Brunet told CBC News.
A woman posing as a doctor approached patients at the Royal Victoria Hospital, above, and Montreal General Hospital, government officials, said Friday. Graham Hughes/Canadian PressLynch would neither confirm nor deny a report of women attempted to diagnose a heart patient and told him that he had cancer of the brain. But Lynch stated that she had never heard of such a thing happening before in one of the University hospitals of McGill University.
Staff members are required to wear badges, Lynch said, and patients are well within their rights to ask to see.
However, the Brunet hospital emergency room, said, is a difficult to obtain.
"" [The] more or less four million people admitted in an emergency in the province should not be concerned about paranoid restrictions in terms of security, "he said, but we will make sure that any given medical staff has his badge to work in the premises of acute care."
McGill said that he is working in collaboration with the police and the College of medicine to see what can be done to avoid a relapse.
Organizations representing physicians in Quebec and said at the national level that they have never heard of an incident quite like this.
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