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Ethical issues that arise over long-term care are being discussed by medical staff as part of Ethics Awareness Week. Expert Christy Simpson, the head of the bioethics department at Dalhousie University, is working with staff from King Edward VII Memo...

Hospital chiefs will seek legal costs from a quadriplegic who was paralysed after an accident at Bermuda’s only mental hospital. Thomas Hofer, 52, recently lost an 18-year legal battle to sue the Bermuda Hospitals Board for massive damages for injuri...

Caroline Aberhart arrived in Bermuda four years ago, with $11 in her pocket. Somehow she’d lost her wallet on the long journey from her native New Zealand. On the plus side, she had a job she relished. The clinical pharmacist is promoting her career ...

A man who was paralysed more than 20 years ago after an accident at Bermuda’s only mental hospital has lost a lengthy battle to sue for compensation. Thomas Hofer was just 30 and pursuing his dream job as a chef on the Island when he broke his neck w...

Dear Sir, After the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s comments in an article last week about diagnostic imaging guidelines, we have been informed that certain other diagnostic imaging providers also use international guidelines to assess the clinical appropr...

My feature this week could well be called a ‘double-header’ — plus one. We begin with the 154th anniversary of Somerset Methodist Church, followed by the birthday celebrations of noted music teacher Olivette Burch Morris. My column concludes with th...

Bermuda Hospitals Board has gone public on its use of a contrast dye which is being investigated in the United States for potential harmful effects. The board, which recently apologised and paid compensation to widower Allan DeSilva for administering...

Susan Thomas feared being stigmatised when she publicly revealed she had a depressive illness. David is sharing his story anonymously today, because he worries he might be judged. Mrs Thomas was flooded with messages from people who said they had si...

David didn’t understand why people were looking at him like something wasn’t right. He was speaking clearly but they didn’t get what he was saying. He was full of energy; they all seemed so slow. The penny didn’t drop until he was taken away by ambul...

The Island’s one cancer patient receiving the chemotherapy drug eribulin is now assured a regular supply after a series of unnerving delays. However, the reasons behind her uneven treatment raise further questions for Renée Carter, who is living with...

Bermuda Hospitals Board has apologised and paid compensation to a widower whose late wife was given a substance which was the subject of public health warnings and may have contributed to her death. Allan DeSilva has battled BHB for three years to ge...

A former Bermuda health worker who was struck down with Ebola early last year has been readmitted to hospital in a serious condition due to an “unusual late complication”, according to a Sky News report. Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey had seemingly...