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Inside Canada's secret world of medical error: 'There is a lot of lying, there's a lot of cover-up.'

Blackwell T. National Post. January 16, 2015.

Reporting on the lack of transparency around medical errors in Canada, this news article relates how errors are being repeated across the country due to the systemic failure to have open discussions about adverse events.

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