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Catalogue Number: CTV402
Producer: CTV
Producers: Trotter, Marleen
Producing Agencies: CTV Television
Subject: Criminal Justice & Law, Documentary, Guidance, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences, Sociology, Women's Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2008
Running Time: 41:08
A Right to Know: W5
Catalogue Number: CTV402
Producer: CTV
Producers: Trotter, Marleen
Producing Agencies: CTV Television
Subject: Criminal Justice & Law, Documentary, Guidance, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences, Sociology, Women's Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2008
Running Time: 41:08
Many women expect that when they walk into the doctor's office, the person examining them can be trusted to tell them everything they need to know. But in the cases of over 30 patients of Dr. Richard Austin at Scarborough General Hospital, the man performing "routine surgeries" has a questionable surgical track record and the hospital that employs him doesn't think that these women had the right to know.
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