The family of Jacques Teasdale, this former journalist and city councilor who died of lung cancer who would likely have been avoided, says he won a “first victory”, while the pulmonologist who followed the septuagenarian resigned from the Quebec CHU.
This is said that the CHU, in a letter sent to the Teasdale family on Monday and of which The newspaper obtained a copy.
Being, the CHU confirms by the very fact that the pneumologist chief of the Quebec CHU, Pierre d’Amours, who was responsible for the file of Mr. Teasdale and who was targeted by a complaint on the part of the Teasdale family, is no longer the subject of a survey for disciplinary purposes on the part of the Council of Doctors, Dentists and Pharmacians (CMDP). This then becomes “not object”, we can read.
“The disciplinary committee concerned was therefore dissolved by the CMDP,” it is indicated.
Thus, the targeted pulmonologist will never be the subject of disciplinary measures in this case.
Despite everything, the Teasdale family says it is “relieved”, says the son of the deceased, Olivier Teasdale.
“Today, we are relieved to know that he [le pneumologue Pierre D’Amours] won’t be there for others [patients]. For my father, it is too late, but at least he will be there for others. For us, it is a victory, in a great war, ”he says.
Olivier Teasdale, son of Jacques Teasdale, who died of lung cancer.
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Medical error
According to the family, a better medical care as soon as their first visit to the emergency of the Jesus child in December 2020-where a chest computed tomography (TACO) revealed the presence of cancer-could have allowed the former municipal councilor and former VAT journalist to live “still several years”.
Recall that after this first visit to the emergency, Mr. Teasdale was subsequently hospitalized five times for respiratory problems, in three emergencies of the Quebec CHU. Each time, it came out with a diagnosis of bronchitis.
Jacques Teasdale died on July 16, 2024, from stadium lung cancer, of which he had received a diagnosis barely two months ago.
Pursuit
The family also plans to continue the Quebec CHU for having “forgotten” to carry out major medical follow -ups with Mr. Tesdale. She also accuses certain members of the nursing staff of having provided him with “execrable” treatments.
Olivier Teasdale also complained to the college of doctors and the order of nurses. Surveys are also underway within these instances.
When writing these lines, the Quebec CHU had not yet answered our questions.
