Dr. Barry McLellan, former CEO of Sunnybrook hospital and his management team ignored the Health Care Consent Act enacted in 1996 to protect patient autonomy. They actively supported doctors writing illegal, unilateral Do Not Resuscitate orders on patient without consent as required by law. In this way, doctors were acting as death panels and controlled which patients were admitted to the ICU for life-sustaining treatments. They were able to operate under the radar for several years until they did this to my father.
My father was Full Code. Full Code was written all over his chart.
Two doctors decided my father should not be given life-sustaining treatment five days after surgery. Without contacting me, (Power of Attorney) they placed a DNR order on my father's chart. They then refused my father breathing support pushing him into cardiac arrest.
This happened in front of me. Dr. B. McClellan and his cohorts claim the doctors did nothing wrong. Sunnybrook and doctors are being sued.