103 Replies to “Best Health Care System in The World”

      1. Enterprising aboriginal doctors and nurses could set up a private fee for service medical clinic on treaty land that’s completely exempt from the Canada Health Act and Federal oversight and interference.

        Just sayin’.

  2. US spends $11072 per person on health care.

    Canada spends $5418 per person.

    We can have better health care, but who pays for it?

    1. You get what you pay for. Apparently in Canada, you pay to wait in line while bleeding or suffering chest pains.

    2. Thankfully, you Canadians don’t have a … ewwwww … “for PROFIT” … medical care system. Nobody’s health should be used … ewwwww … “for PROFIT” … that’s what EVIL Capitalists do. Marxism is beautiful … even when you’re on the ground shivering for it, comrades.

  4. Not Only is it BAD, but it is not free as some of the IDIOTS in Canada claim.
    Canadian Healthcare costs 6,600 Dollars for each man woman and child in Canada.
    It is about the same cost as what you pay in the USA. Except in the USA you can have the world’s best if you pay more.
    They also have the cheap shit for free like we have.
    Canadians are stupid sheep.
    Come on lets hear the BEER COMMERCIAL. “I AM CANADIAN” FFS I ever hear that again somebody gets a brick in the mouth for sure.

    1. Thatta boy Watcher… that’s the truth right there. How do I get out of this chicken shit country.

  6. Nice stitching job on a woman’s face, @$$h0les. It’s not a football! Did they get the janitor in to sew that up? I’ve seen med students do better than that.

    1. They never learned a simple sub cuticular stitch. What do you want, it was free!!! Imagine what it would have cost you in Buffalo.

      1. It looks like the guy who did that needs his head slapped. That girl is going to have a -big- gnarly scar.

        There’s no excuse for that kind of thing, it’s just laziness and not giving a f- anymore. Fire that one.

    3. My immediate thought as well. That woman will have a permanent and unsightly scar there. Of course, she can eventually get it fixed, sort of, through elective plastic surgery that will cost significant $$$ out of pocket. Pretty pathetic.

    4. That did look a bit rough. My rugby teammates would stitch each other up like that so we could play the second half. Novocaine is for pussies. No medical training necessary.

      Then I thought … Canada’s FREE medical care system will pay for the cosmetic surgery necessary to fix it … Right? And nobody gets to make any … ewwwww … “profit”. I’m sure she’ll get that fixed right up over the next 10 years …

    5. Yep, that’s gonna scar. I’d not trust the attending MD to sew up my pre-cooked Christmas turkey.

      mhb23re

    6. Befriending a veterinarian has a lot of advantages. One is if you need stiches done quickly and professionally.

  7. Because the Manitoba government has no clue how to deal with the chronic staffing shortage, the Province is back into lockdowns. They burned out the hospital staff.
    As the media reports massive Covid patients increased this crisis which of course is Horseshit.
    Thanks health experts!

    1. The Manitoba system was total shit when Pallister got in. There was almost no care outside of Winnipeg. Everything required a trip to Winnipeg, even the simplest thing. Locals had to fight like hell and do their own local fundraising to get an MR and Ct machine in Dauphin. (Dauphin being a four hour drive from Winnipeg) so locals could get the test done here. Pallister was actually succeeding in improving and streamlining the entire system. Then COVID came along. And Pallister went to shit.

      Two personal stories: 1) My son is an aide. Before Pallister he was in a crew of 12. Lowest seniority got sent on runs. Except during disaster codes typically 8 did nothing all day. He is now part of a staff of 4. He says it cut into his chess games. 2) Before Pallister I sat with my DIL who had severe pain in her lower right quadrant, for 12 hours. After 7 hours she was transferred from Seven Oaks Hospital to Health Sciences Centre for a CT scan. After 4 hours she was sent back to Seven Oaks. One hour later she was finally told she had a large ovarian cyst that needed immediate surgery and she was given a bottle of pain killers and told to go home and come back in Monday morning (3 days later) for the surgery. After the doctor left, the nurse involved privately suggested I monitor her blood pressure and vitals and call an ambulance if they starting dropping. I asked what the hell was the point since if she started bleeding out it would be hours before anyone saw her anyway. As it was she survived until her surgery. My golden retriever can get better medical care than that.

    1. Canadians totally lack the required reasoning skills to understand this. Not just that, but they have zero interest in acquiring said skills. “American style health care bad! Single payer good!” is the extent of Canadian thought.

      1. “For …. ewwwwww … Profit” medicine baaaaaad Mmmmkay.

        PS … before the abortion known as Obamakkare was stillborn, our ewwwww “for profit” medicine never ever turned away a single patient in need. Even if this woman had no means to pay … her cut would have been stitched up (competently) and quickly in any hospital in the USA. Obama LIED about Americans not receiving TOP QUALITY medical care regardless of means to pay. Obama is a LIAR.

      2. YES single payer good.
        Three good countries have demonstrated this: Canada, Cuba, and N Korea.

  9. C’mon, you unbelievers!

    Everyone knows the reason she took so long to get treated was because of the unvaxxed!

    Heathens, all!

    2. There’s another way that might be true. I see that the “front line workers must be vaccinated by” date is Oct 31 for Manitoba. How many medical professionals has that cost them so far?

      Can someone from Manitoba advise whether this is really going ahead or if the opinion site I picked it up from has that wrong?

  10. Health care in Manitoba has always been a disaster and the Health Sciences is not, and has not, ever been a place you would want to end up in care. In 2017 I took my mother, who had vomiting and diarrhea, to this hospital. She was disoriented and we were concerned she may have had a stroke. We waited 6 hours for care. You can’t blame Covid for everything. Apparently we are going into our 4th wave in this country. What did we learn during the first 3 waves that could have improved this situation?!? Just think what the 600 million dollars from the election could have done to help with more staff and ICU beds. Learn basic first aid skills, and befriend people with medical experience because we cannot rely on our health care system anymore!

    1. BINGO!!!! Learn skills in order to take care of yourself and those about whom you care. Learn basic medical procedures like splinting, setting broken bones, stitching, like any prepper should know. Spread the knowledge amongst your friends. This medical system is only going to get worse, a lot worse, before it gets any better.

      1. Tall order. Canadians are so used to expecting the best treatment in everything and have somebody else pay for it.

  12. I agree… fn sick people getting sick and going to the hospital and ending up in the booboo line and waiting for their 6 stitches.

    It is a conspiracy and we at SDA should never go the hospital… what if they give some Death Goo? What if they sell our organs?

    Rise up people!

    1. Hey bob. If they sewed up your mother or your sister like that after making them wait 9 hours, you’d be suing them. Let’s not pretend otherwise, shall we?

      1. Right again dude… I would expect my mom/sister to not have to go through the triage process and get their booboo treated before heart attacks or strokes or children.

        I think 44% of GDP spent on Healthcare is not enough… they should raise taxes or cut other services to give to Hhealthcare.

        Or we could ask those old people (whose population is getting bigger everyday) to stop getting sick.

        1. That dog could hunt. I can think of an extra yearly $1.5bn spent on the CBC and another $10bn on aboriginal affairs that could use a haircut. Maybe use that for healthcare and teach somebody how to suture or do other stuff.

          How about it, Justin?

          mhb23re

    2. Oh look, xim/xer/xit wandered by.

      Shhhh, adults are talking, run along, your village is wanting you back!

    3. Well 99% of the physicians in Winnipeg have a standing policy that if you need care outside of office hours, go to the ER. So what exactly are you supposed to do?

  13. That’s why they’re engineering a situation where getting a needle of mysterious origin in your arm every six months is the answer to all your problems. Just ignore all the money the pharmaceutical companies are making; they know what’s best for you.

      1. Yes, it causes cognitive decline in some. You’ve been vaccinated… what, about 6 times by now?

        To repeat from an earlier thread. Get someone you trust to explain to you (in small words) the difference between “my choice” and “coercion”.

      2. ‘samatter, Troll-boi? Having second thoughts about getting your experimental “vaccine”?

        Ever wonder about the totally unknown long-term effects that might crop up on you one day? Relax. Just join in the huge class action suits against Big Pharma and you’ll be recompensed because it’s not like Big Government indemnified them from lawsuits or anything in case of side effect issues with “death goo”.

        Oh, wait. Guess you’re on your own. Enjoy.

        mhb23re

    2. Don’t worry … Pharma doesn’t make any … ewwwwww … “Profits” in the pristine People’s Care of Kkanada, comrade

      Kkanada Kkare is NOT for ewwwwww Profit

  14. Your rights in Canada are dependent on the provincial health budget. If the healthcare system is overwhelmed then you get quarantined, masked, vaxx passported, locked down, all because the province doesn’t want to fund or run the system appropriately. As has been pointed out, the number of ICU beds in Canadian provinces compared to US states is pathetic.

  15. Tied to the pandemic my ass. I have been to the ER a few times and it has always been the same: long waits in a room full of suffering people.

    1. But but that’s impossible! US ER’s are overrun by people with no health insurance. Obama said so. Before Obamakkare … lines were out the door of men with splinters in their fingers, because the ER was the ONLY option for them. And now it’s alllllll better … because the illegals all have FREE Obamakkare. So they all go to their private physicians in the suburbs now … and our ER’s are all empty.

      Yeah, right.

  16. I find that Sun Article to be Govt ASS kissing BS.

    Who in their Right Fucking MInd, would put a Pfizer or Moderna shot in their system AFTER RECOVERING from the Vid.?? To me, that is beyond ASSININE.

    I note as well that all the talk is about Anit-bodies. Well, those are all fine and dandy, but antibodies lose their effectiveness over time…3-6 months from what I’ve read and that seems to be the basis for getting Vaxxed anyway.

    YET NO ONE Talks about LONG Term IMMUNITY which is based upon T-Cells.
    No mention of that in this Propaganda piece from the SUN or anywhere else for that matter. Its all about the poor Health Care workers being overworked….spare me with that pls (I’m not knocking the medicals for what they endure….but the unstated inference is that it’s those of us who refuse the VidVax that are the issue).

    THAT is ENTIRELY the Result of 25-30% Saying: Fuck you with YOUR GOVT mandatory VAX.

    IF THE ENTIRE Medical WORK FORCE WALKED out for 1 Day CANADA Wide …??
    The Entire Bullshit story would collapse within 24 HOURS.

    As an ASIDE

    HOSPITALS in Canada have. been FULL since Forever.
    ICU’s have been full forever

    Not a damned thing has changed.

        1. You are right man, I checked and the doors and they are not glass – I am not sure what they are, but they can’t be glass because you say so and you are here and I am not.

          Maybe it is giant TV-door with a video of some sick sheaple. Being the second largest ER in Canada, why would staff want to look into a patient through a glass door – that would be a dumb idea.

          You are right and I am wrong – all along.

          1. ER is a room with beds in it with curtains around them, bob. They don’t let random wankers like yourself walk through.

            In Ontario, ER is beds lined up in the hallways. They don’t even get curtains. There are usually a bunch of ambulances idling in the parking lot too. That’s what hospitals like to call the “waiting room.”

            If you’re going to keep lying, at least try to make it faintly believable.

          2. second largest ER in Canada

            That’s Surrey Memorial Hospital. Anyone in BC want to drop by and take some pics, demonstrate how full of shit bob is?

  17. Odd that a new Stadium, Airport, Convention Center Expansion, Museum, Art Gallery, Diversity Gardens (100 million bucks worth!), Rapid Transit corridor and a couple vastly overbuilt overpasses didn’t assuage anyone’s malady.

    World Class!

  18. You know what is truly sad about our country?
    I could probably have done a better sew job and wouldn’t think twice to help but…
    Our government and politicians would have me in jail in a heartbeat should I have done so.

  19. She will sport a nasty scar thanks to that botched attempt at sewing up her cut.
    Even Dr. Frankenstein could do better.

    1. That’s what I’m saying. Who the f- decided that was good enough on a girl’s face? If she’s smart she’ll take herself to a plastics guy and get that thing done properly.

      1. F’n A…We should do something. Or keep writing in this echo-chamber where everyone agrees with me (well, except those trolls).

  20. I’m glad I can use the most horrible healthcare system in the world! Here in ‘Merica, I’ve spent a lot of time in this horrible healthcare system.
    First my son stuck his hand on a tablesaw. Got in and had stitches within an hour or two.
    Second son got a joint infection. That entailed 3 ER visits, a surgery, and a week in the hospital. Thankfully good insurance so minimal out of pocket.

    We were well taken care of. It’s a horrible system.

    Rules of thumb: for the most part, they prioritize things by severity. If you walk in with gaping wounds or crushing chest pains, you’re first. If you have a rash or a cough, you can count on being seen when all of the gaping wounds and chest pains are taken care of, it will be hours and hours.

    1. In the US, emergency rooms are paid fees for service. The quicker they do the job, the more money they make. In Canada, they already have their funding so it costs them to provide service. The patient is a costly fckuing inconvenience.

    2. I had to have my gall bladder removed while I was in the USA. When we arrived at the ER I was in terrible pain and I was whisked right into an exam room. When they found out I had full insurance I had an MRI, CT and ultrasound, and diagnosis done within an hour. Meanwhile my wife was filling out paperwork in tears convinced by the speed with which I moved out of the waiting room, that I was near death.

    3. Rules of thumb: for the most part, they prioritize things by severity.

      Nearly two years ago, I severely cut my thumb because of my own stupidity. I bled like a stuck pig and checked in at the University of Alberta hospital emergency ward. I had to wait for two hours before someone finally looked at my wound because of those who were regarded as “more severe”.

  21. I’m digging into my memory but one year the Alberta government increased the Health budget by 13% and wait times went up. The health care bureaucracy is totally incompetent and deliberately malicious. They could solve the ER crises by spending a pittance hiring one or two extra doctors on the busiest shifts. 10 hour wait times are part of the chess game they play to get extra funding to flush down the crapper. If they piss off enough people with their inhumanity, governments will kick in billions more or get replaced by someone who will. It is the health care equivalent of clean water on Indian reserves. It is a problem that can be immediately resolved by any idiot but doing so would jeopardize bargaining power. Killing and torturing people is simply a power play.

    1. “The health care bureaucracy is totally incompetent and deliberately malicious.” You hit the nail on the head scar. I have heard from many health care workers in Alberta who complain about the entrenched bureaucracy within the system that is over large and drains precious resources from actual patient care. And wait times have been excruciatingly long for YEARS. Covid has only exposed the rot. I’ve often wondered if a medi-centre right next to a hospital would not be a better use of resources. Have in-take staff determine severity and those not requiring emergency or hospital care could be sent next door for appropriate care. Just a thought.

      1. “I’ve often wondered if a medi-centre right next to a hospital”

        I’ve have also wondered whether a number of 24 hr. private clinics should be attached to hospitals and rented out for substantial fees. 99% of patients wouldn’t even enter the hospital.

    2. 10 hour wait times are part of the chess game they play to get extra funding to flush down the crapper.

      I once had to spend several hours in Joseph Brant’s ER waiting room, and while I was there a nurse had the gall to hand pamphlets to all the people waiting blaming the wait times on lack of provincial funding and asking people to contact their MPP and demand more funding.

      My response earned me a tense conversation with hospital security.

      1. Yes, SMH…

        Come by and I will give you a tour… we can look at the silly glass doors and then go to the Covid floors (2 full floors now in our tower) and look at people on vents.

        You don’t need to be vaccinated to get in, but you would be with me.

        You can’t take pics but you can report back.

    3. scar, Milton Friedman studied and wrote about this; found that with increased hospital inputs, output declined.

  22. I’ve seen better stitching on a cow after a “C-section!

    But of course the bill went straight to the owner…me.

    In the case of this lady the bill also goes straight to the owner….the state.

  23. I’ve seen vets do a much nicer job than that after bovine c-sections . I guess it comes down to pride in your work.

  25. Looking at those stiches that would likely embarrass your average first year veterinarian student, one can only conclude that that’s the beauty of socialism. The Eloi insist on it and virtually all Canadian institutions ensure that they won’t know anything about any alternatives.

  26. In MB we have a very large population of people, especially around the HSC, who don’t have a family doctor and abuse Emergency Room doctors. If we’re lucky, they saunter in under their own power. If not, they’ll call an ambulance to chauffer their lazy asses in.

    They don’t have to pay for the it and they’ve literally got nothing better to do so they take no preventative health measures and just stagger into an ER when something becomes unbearable.

    When you get near the HSC, you get the impression that you’ve left Winnipeg and stepped onto a reserve.
    Of course, first you have to get past all the smokers at the door to get in.
    Then you line up with all the drunks and slip/fall idiots inside who haven’t had a shower in a year, with the stench of stale smokes and whatever solvent they’ve been pickling their brain in, rolling off their bodies like a putrid wave.
    Mix in all the people who make amazingly bad decisions while stoned/drunk and you get to marinate in their stench for hours while you wait for your chance to get your thinker holder stitched up, as you had an actual accident that wasn’t fueled by your own poor life choices.

    1. Well I lived in Winnipeg for several decades and I assure you it is standard policy for every physician in that city, if you can’t wait until their office opens and book an appointment for next week, you are instructed to go to the ER. And you’re lucky if you have a family doctor. Most don’t accept new patients. So not everyone waiting in an ER is a drunk/drug addict or abusing the system.

      1. Nope but a lot of people at HSC ER could have gone to a walk in clinic if they had any self awareness and/or cared about their health

  27. When you work for the gov’t, it’s always “good enough”
    Nobody is going to say to the Dr who did this … “what happened here”? “is this your best work”?
    “were you angry when you stitched this gal up”?

    tier 2 Canada.

    “whatsyourexcuse” at 11.09 lists a few things Manitoba has spent big bucks on in the past few years. How sweet will it be when those massive Manitoba Hydro bills come due?

  28. I try to avoid going to hospitals where ever possible, because each time I’m there, I usually bring home something extra…

    I’ve also witnessed gaggles of nurses standing around chatting, while ignoring patients that need attention, and a lack of competent triage, even before the pandemic.

    The whole calling them “heroes” for showing up to work in their chosen profession, is a bit much though…

  29. I’d go to my dog’s vet and beg her to sew me up and bill it to the dog. We do not have healthcare –we have rationed care. That’s some nasty looking stitches.

  30. From 2017 – Manitoba government closes three of six emergency rooms in Winnipeg
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/manitoba-government-closes-three-of-six-emergency-rooms-in-winnipeg-1.3359244

    “Critics said the changes will leave patients in many areas of the city facing longer wait times, but health officials said it will actually shorten waits by diverting less-urgent matters away from the remaining emergency rooms.”

    And the band played on.

    That aside…my mother waited two days on a hospital bed in a hallway waiting for a room ten years ago, Why the shock or outrage? It’s socialized medicine, and it’s what Canadians wanted and now they have it, so enjoy.
    Oh, and be sure to tell everyone it’s free.

  31. Not exactly what the point is here but this is really nothing new at all for Ontario. In 2006 I waited 23 hours between 2 hospitals to get my infant checked over by the doctors. At the time she was 2 months old and had been projectile vomiting for 2 days with no dirty diapers so clearly unable to get nourishment as everything that went in came right back out her mouth. First hospital had us wait 6 hours then preformed an x-ray, 3 more hours they said “sorry we do not do infant care” handed me the x-rays then sent me to another hospital an hour away where I continued to wait until finally seen by a doctor who asked “Why didn’t they send you right into see me?” I told her to ask her staff.

    2009 I waited in emergency while pregnant due to unexpected bleeding. I got there at 6pm and didn’t leave until 3am. In that time I began bleeding profusely so they put a pad on the chair. I lost my baby at 13 weeks in an emergency waiting room full of people. A guy seen before me had an ingrown hair in his armpit after a buddy dared him a week earlier to shave them. He got treatment while my baby died. They couldn’t even do an ultrasound to confirm stating the lab was closed… and yet the delivery ward has mobile units 24/7 in the same hospital. In the end I bled for over a month before they could book me an emergency room to remove the remains of my pregnancy. This resulted in major complications that left me infertile.

    In 2010 we had a 6 hour wait in hospital for a ruptured eardrum on a 4 year old due to infection with a fever of 104 degrees. There were only 3 other people in that emergency waiting area and the staff took several smoke breaks in that time.

    2011 I waited with a fever of 103 for 5 hours to see someone for what turned out to be a UTI where I was unable to stand due to pain.

    2012 took my neighbour who fell 2 stories into a concrete pit and shattered his knee. Waited 7 hours in the hallway while there were only 5 other people waiting and empty rooms it made no sense. I personally had to help the man undress (I hardly know him) before the x-ray because the staff refused to assist him. Turned out his kneecap was completely shattered and he had also suffered major head trauma and other injuries. They sent him home with me 12 hours after that and he ended up living in my house for 2 weeks because he had no family to care for him. Again I hardly know the guy.

    2016 I take my mother to the hospital after a bad fall and injury. We got to the hospital at 8pm… the place was packed to standing room only and I had to wait in the vehicle until a wheelchair was available to her. We stayed until 4am until I drove us to another hospital in yet another town. People were clearly suffering all around us including a 6 year old girl who was bleeding from her ears with a fever. Her parents said they had been there since 5pm and no one had so much as looked at her in that time. In our 8 hours there we heard 2 code blues (heart stopping) that sent all staff out of emergency. I asked a few nurses and eventually learned there was only one doctor on staff that evening for the entire hospital… why? That hospital called us at 11am to say we were next and asked us why we left. At that point we were at another hospital for her injuries still waiting.

    So I don’t give a flying F#%k about covid stress in hospitals when clearly the hospitals were a mess way before this. I hear complaints of full emergency wards and ICU when this has been a thing for decades. We actually have less people in those hospitals now because they are turning people away “Just In Case” to keep beds empty for covid patience that rarely exist in need of ICU care. Deaths by treatable conditions are on the rise while covid fatalities are no more than the average flu year… which I’ll remind you flu seems to be non existent now. Funny how that worked.

    1. “So I don’t give a flying F#%k about covid stress in hospitals when clearly the hospitals were a mess way before this.”

      Alberta has 180 Covid ICU patients. In a population of 4,500,000 million, this is apparently stressing the system. A bunch of lying bastards. It’s a deliberate play for more funding to piss away on nothing.

      1. True, they are lying because there are 4.5 million ICU beds in Alberta and only 180 are taken… they think we are stupid

    3. pleasetellmeitsajoke, Sadly your long list of issues is not a joke, and you have my heartfelt sympathies.
      I too, do not have much good to say on hospital ER visits. A couple of months back, I had an issue of medication. My Doc, had left on a Friday night for a three week vacation, and for an unknown reason my script was not faxed over to the pharmacy as arranged. So, I ended up in the ER on the Friday night, long story, but no choice unless I go without my meds until the following Monday, and no can do on that. Now admittedly, I was not a gaping wound emergency, and it is a small town hospital. BUT, there were three doctors, and five or six nurses, and five patients…A quiet ER night. After a three hour wait in the waiting area, I was called into the ER, where I waited in a chair for another hour and a half, while watching and hearing the staff performing, before being attended too, and given a script for meds for the weekend only, needing to go to a walk in on the Monday for a longer term script. During my hour and a half, I witnessed the doctors and nurses, all female, spend 75% of their time inside the monitoring area. Most of that time, they discussed important stuff, like make up, clothes, a new hot tub arriving, their cars and boyfriends, and other important trivia. So no, I don’t have any faith in the “system” the heroes, and the need for free health care over no allowance of for profit health care. Oh, and forget the care part, cuz most of them really don’t seem too.

  32. Would like to say that stiches never look good.
    They are bloody, uneven and scabby.
    What does anybody expect?
    As one can remember, if you had a medical something, you would go to your doctor.
    Your doctor is rare today.
    You go to the McClinic.
    McClinic needs to get rid of you for the next billing case.
    McClinic is there basically distribution centers to send afflicted to different actual doctors.

    If you can’t get one you go to the emergency.
    That’s the system.
    Have you ever noted how much theses people spent on writing stuff.
    A few years ago, relative had an emergency visit at a hospital, sudden brain cancer in two spots, there were so many people that all of the beds were occupied and people sitting in chairs were occupying all. Of course there was the daily contingent of drugged up.
    This all happenned on a normal day in normal conditions as it were.

  33. A word of advice. If you have to go to the emergency, if you can, always call for an ambulance.
    It may end up costing you a few extra $, but you’ll be moved to the front of the line.
    Hospitals don’t like to keep ambulances waiting. I know this from personal experience.

  34. What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
    Some Canadians, you just can’t reach.
    So you get what we have here in the health system — which is the way they wants it.
    Well, they gets it.

  35. Our health care system is quite good – if you are going to be dead in the next 24 hours. Otherwise, see that line? That’s the line to get into the line to get into the waiting room.

    1. Steve from Rockwood:

      A customer with a knee problem once told me — apparently with a straight face — (it was over the phone) that when you get in, the care is actually quite good.

  36. Re: Her stitches.

    I made a leather wallet in junior high shop class that had better looking stitches. Keerist…

  37. My father had some health problems that landed him in the hospital for 4 days. He had (religiously) purchased extra health care insurance with one benefit being a private room. In the Milton hospital the private rooms were closed (funding?) and therefore not available. After the doctors visit, it was suggested my father might have pneumonia. Mysteriously the private room opened as the patient required isolation. I won’t mention the amount of time he was laid out on a stretcher in the hallway of the emergency room – before covid of course.

  38. HSC is brutal. Its in a rough area and the ER can be flooded with some really dumb injuries/overdoses.

  40. Life in Kathleen Wynn’s Ontario: took hubby to the emergency room on a Saturday night because he was having a really difficult time trying to breathe (he’s in heart failure). Sat in the waiting room literally all night waiting to be seen, while the people being treated had issues like hives from being bitten by sand fleas in that socialist paradise Cuba, a girl with a 1 inch cut on her forehead (not even bleeding), another who had dry heaves…When they finally got around to the husband, his blood pressure was so low it could only be read using old manual equipment, and they immediately hauled him off to a bed right in front of the nurse’s station where they could monitor him in real time while the monitors kept screaming ‘failure, failure’, and started giving him oxygen. Kept him for a week. As far as I could tell, unless he coded, he was considered last in line for any attention. Pathetic, really.

  41. Heh. In the not very distant future we will call this “the good old days”.

    Don’t get sick. Don’t get hurt.

    1. Come by and I will give you a tour… we can look at the silly non-glass doors and then go to the Covid floors (2 full floors now) and look at people on vents.

  44. Are our two weeks up yet?
    The Dread Covid Theatre has sure highlighted how dead the Healthcare System is.
    When faced with an anticipated increased demand for healthcare,Health Canada forbid the general public access..
    near 18 months have now passed,yet Health Canada spending has most all been on hall monitors and compliance propaganda.

    I know of no new ICU being built,heard nothing of additional medical staff and assistants being trained up on an emergency basis and have seen no clever prioritizing of currents staff’s time and energy..
    Very strange behaviour,if we are in an emergency ..
    Now,as they insist the emergency continues,they are driving away large numbers of trained medical staff..because “Its an emergency?”

    The fiction of Free Public Healthcare is as dead as Monty Python’s Parrot.

  45. Are our two weeks up yet?
    The Dread Covid Theatre has sure highlighted how dead the Healthcare System is.
    When faced with an anticipated increased demand for healthcare,Health Canada forbid the general public access..
    near 18 months have now passed,yet Health Canada spending has most all been on hall monitors and compliance propaganda.

    I know of no new ICU being built,heard nothing of additional medical staff and assistants being trained up on an emergency basis and have seen no clever prioritizing of currents staff’s time and energy..
    Very strange behaviour,if we are in an emergency ..
    Now,as they insist the emergency continues,they are driving away large numbers of trained medical staff..because “Its an emergency?”

    The fiction of Free Public Healthcare is as dead as Monty Python’s Parrot.

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