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MEDICAL SCIENTIST AND AUTHOR
GAVIN HAMILTON, MD, FRCPC
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS:
LATEST BOOK PUBLICATION:
BOUNDARY LAYER SOUND BEATS (2022)

The result of a lifetime of investigation and research into turbulent transverse flows in tubes, Dr. Gavin Hamilton presents a logical explanation for what may be one of the last great unsolved mysteries of modern physics. With rich illustrations backing up his research, Dr. Hamilton delivers a compelling addition to scientific literature.
THE NURSES ARE INNOCENT (2011)

"The Nurses Are Innocent: The Digoxin Poisoning Fallacy" explores the tragic 1980–1981 deaths of 43 infants at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. While the book itself is a retroactive medical-forensic critique rather than a court ruling, the real-world legal battle it documents is monumentally significant to Canadian jurisprudence.
This is the author’s major work: the discovery that MBT, a toxic, allergenic contaminant leached from rubber seals of drug vials and tips of syringe plungers caused two clusters of injection-related reactions, including anaphylaxis – a preventable potentially lethal hazard affecting most injections worldwide that – unacceptably – is allowed to persist. MBT, a cumulative toxin, measured as digoxin by blood tests, resulted in false accusations of serial murder of Toronto cardiac ward babies by intentional digoxin overdosing, 1980-81.

Gavin Hamilton was both a hero and a voice in the wilderness... [he] singlehandedly had forced removal of MBT from syringes and rubber stoppers in Canada. Since then, we have not had a serious IV contrast reaction at our hospital. Formerly, we had deaths, and we had serious reactions in batches.
C. Stuart Houston, OC, SOM, DLit, MD, FRCPC

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