National Post- Inside Canada’s shockingly violent hospitals
Who or what is to blame? There are many factors. An increasingly hostile and toxic world. A distressed, overcrowded and understaffed medical system that’s led to dangerous waits for care and boiling frustrations. Violent patient behaviours driven by drugs, psychosis and dementia. And inconsistent or inadequate security in hospitals, with no real accountability for the laxity.
“Who or what is to blame?”
Socialism. Straight up, that’s the cause. The #Liberal’s Catch-and-Release is most of the problem, but the rest is that nobody is going to lose their job if there’s a knife fight in the Emergency waiting room.
In a -private- hospital they can refuse to treat violent a-holes, and kick them out.
Think upon that, socialists.
When I was in a small rural Ontario hospital a couple springs ago , when my heart needed a little work.
There was a guy in the next cubicle in Emerg.
Telling the nurses he’d like to stab them in the
– – – t. He was handcuffed and settled down around 3 in the afternoon they took them off let him go to the washroom all the while he let on he was damn near crippled. About the same time a social worker showed up making excuses for the guy. 10 minutes later I watched him walk out the back way. Two town cops arrived 5 mins later to do whatever but he was gone. Oldest daughter is a nurse 33 years old and is pretty well burned out . I’m not going to repeat what she has to deal with. I know one thing I’m proud of my kids but it’s too bad their diligence and work ethic seems to be wasted under people that have just let it get to far down the drain , like the country and just as hard to fix.
I will mention this though they had an infant that would crash every night the nurses would call the well off parents . And the parents told them to quit calling it’s becoming annoying- the same parents went on holidays as well …. the infant was in rough shape.
That can’t be easy to deal with as a nurse on top of the regular stuff, average people never have to process
If the gov’t controls all aspects of hospital care in Canada, and all the social programs which have failed to sate the despair of Canadians, is there something else we should be blaming?
My ex-wife graduated first in her nursing class in Saskatchewan, worked in a variety of nurse settings from private clinics to Calgary’s Foothills Hospital. When she quit about 1/2 way through a career, it wasn’t just Foothills Hospital she quit, it was all of nursing, and the toxic environment, the union, the paperwork which was written by all the staff and apparently never read by anyone, the management and the gov’t policies set in place, all prior to Covid, which would have pushed her out anyways as none of us accepted the gov’t lies re: vaxes are safe, effective, and necessary.
Yesterday there was a National Post article on the front page, “above the fold” from Amy Eileen Hamm, recently feeling the brunt of the medical overseers in Canada for non compliance with personal pronoun fictions. When the good people quit or are forced out, you’re left with “very recent graduates” and people fully dependent upon gov’t jobs, but by no means the good nurses, those who have felt the brunt of gov’t doing what it does best will never return to working for gov’t. You thought medical care was a right? How about the people who have worked providing that right? Should they be compelled to provide for your rights?
Canada has become the shit-midas of gov’t providers. Everything the gov’t touches, turns to garbage, yet we are still paying a premium for barely acceptable service. The unions say the staff is underpaid and overworked, the management says they’re the only ones able to provide the service, the gov’t and courts ban any chance of private competition, and the taxpayers are tapped out, the entire economy is staggered by gov’t bleeding off all that’s good and taxing us to the max, the new PM lies or kicks the crap out of truth with every new statement to the media.
https://x.com/preta_6/status/1901833784603062652
”…Paying a premium for barely acceptable service …”
But, but, but … MiC!! Canada has FREE medical care!! FREEEEE … wheeeeeee!!! Obama TOLD me so. He said America was the ONLY industrialized nation on the planet that didn’t provide healthcare for its poor people (a bald-faced LIE) .
I’m sorry to hear your wife got chased out of Nursing. When I was in HS … my family Doctor (who “looked like me”) was chased out of the profession with the increasing bullshit of the profession; insurances, paperwork, coding, etc.
Allow me a personal story about what it meant to be an excellent Family Doctor in 1974. I was working for a couple who were building their own home in the local hills. It was sort of a “pole house” lifted up off the ground with the underside of the floors exposed. We we working upside-down installing resawn plywood to the exposed underfloor of their home. One morning, waking up after a days work … my right eye was swollen shut, red, and burning like fire.
Called my Dr. and he took me in immediately. He examined my eye, and proceeded to prepare me for “eye surgery” (not really) he put numbing drops in my eye, laid me back and propped open my bad eye. He pulled out this wicked-long needle that was super lightweight and flexible … and I started to panic thinking he was gonna jab the thing in my eye. Instead, he used it to rub gently across the lens of my eye where he had seen a wood splinter stuck straight into my eyeball. He gently rubbed it out on the first try and I was instantly better and on my way to a complete healing. He said it was really unusual for a wood splinter to literally stab itself into my eye like that, and that he originally thought it must have been a metal splinter.
No specialist. No insurance approved referral pre-authorization paperwork. Nada. Just INSTANT, competent, and caring medical care. He quit the profession shortly thereafter, at the age of about 40. What a shame. He was the BEST Doctor I have EVER had. I’ve never had a Family Doctor (now called Primary Care Physicians) who has come close to Stan. And NONE of my current Doctors “look like me”. NONE of em. But they DO remind me that I have never taken a COVID booster.
Canada’s property and violent crime rates are now higher than in the US. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/ranking-crime-in-canada-and-the-united-states?utm_source=Email&utm_campaign=Comparing-Recent-Crime-Trends-in-Canada-and-US-full-study&utm_medium=Dev_email&utm_content=Learn_More&utm_term=550 Everyone knows the problem in Winterpeg but one must not mention it because “truth” is not allowed to be spoken especially during the annual day of celebration of it.
After ten years of economic decline and demoralization, it makes sense that the hospitals get to experience the results as the emergency ward is the only contact point for “health care” in the single payer monopoly signature system of the NDP/LPC and uniparty Cons.
“. . . with no accountability . . .”
All Canadian healthcare is a government MONOPOLY, so ‘accountability’ or the lack of it rests with government. In Ontario all healthcare is monopolized by OHIP, so they’re to blame.
An increasingly hostile and toxic world, indeed. You can’t go anywhere today, government offices, hospitals, banks, libraries, businesses, etc., without seeing multiple signs stating a zero tolerance policy for violent and abusive behaviour.
Phew! They’re hanging signs.
PS … speaking of ‘Kate’ … I’m missing her posts for the last few days … I hope she is off successfully showing her dogs or something …
The signs are a huge change, believe it or not.
Used to be, pre-Covid, that if a patient raised all manner of h3ll and screamed at you, YOU were getting called upon the carpet to explain yourself, young man. How dare you upset that poor, poor patent like that. Didn’t matter if you were a million dollar a year brain surgeon or a lowly nursing assistant, you had to stand there and take whatever abuse was being dished out.
Well, once upon a time there was a couple of ground-breaking harassment cases, wherein the -truly-amazing- levels of abuse doctors and nurses are subject to was taken to court and the hospitals/government LOST, bigly. It became a thing, overnight.
Then Covid lockdowns came along, and suddenly all the doctors and nurses were quitting.
So now they have signs. If you so much as look at the staff funny, you will be getting tossed out. That’s how it should have been all along, but socialists don’t have common sense.
But they still can’t control violent a-holes in Canadian hospitals, because I very much think they don’t -want- to control them.
Machete attacks? !!!!
Ready for some truth-telling? I have never once heard of a white person of any description, religion, drug use, mental breakdown, or any other excuse use a machete to attack someone … and certainly never someone in the medical community. It is obvious that only a certain anti-social group of people use machetes to attack others.
But nooooooo, our governments refuse to keep those kind of “granular” statistics … because “racism” or something. You can never FIX a problem if you refuse to identify it. Name it. And solve it.
Diversity rhymes with machete.
Finally somebody points out the BIPOC Elephant in the room, in regards to the massive increase in violence in every sector of our society
Thank you liberal democracy.
They had plenty of security to kill a woman who apparently wasn’t wearing her mask properly. And a ‘judge’ thought this was fine.
Indeed, “never forget, never forgive”
We have gone from a “high trust” society to a “low trust” society in the last 30-35 years.
Writing that, I will say that the emergency department of the Regina General Hospital gave very good care of my sister when she was “crashing” with low blood sugar/pressure last year, but sadly because her GP had her on Ozempic for 5 years, it had played hallelujah with her kidneys and colon, and so she died 3.5 hours after she was admitted.
My personal observations are that Canada’s health care system is very good at acute care (ie. car accidents or sudden health emergencies) but very bad at diagnosing problems or providing chronic care.
I am so sorry to hear that you lost your sister. I am a diabetic also, and my Endocrinologist(s) have put me on an experimental precursor of Ozempic (I forget the name), then on Ozempic, and finally on Mounjaro. Forgive me, but the Ozempic’s made me uncontrollably shit the bed. No control. And it did make me stop wanting to eat, and I lost a little weight, but played havoc with the GI tract. I made the mistake of eating (my favorite) fried calamari once when on Ozempic and I spent the entire night on the toilet. It REALLY makes your body hate oils.
So my Doctor put me on Mounjaro … and I had an episode like your sister. The Mounjaro dropped my blood sugar like a stone. Super low, panic-level 60mg/dL. I was able to stabilize at home … but being on Mounjaro literally took me OFF insulin. And my body makes NO insulin whatsoever. Zip. Nada. I called Mounjaro a miracle drug! I was OFF insulin.
Then … the GI interruptions started. I felt as though nothing was moving through my GI tract. Like I had permanent intestinal blockage. My doctor said no problem … take more medicine to help “constipation”. Take another drug to counteract the drug. Facepalm. I ultimately stopped Mounjaro too, despite my Endo’s protestations. But I live according to ONE health parameter more than anything else … “I know my own body”, and “I know when things are right or wrong”. And THIS was wrong. I’m not doing this for the rest of my life.
So no more GLP-1’s for me. No more “slowing down digestion” for me. And I feel fine. And I can control my A1c on my own, thank you. I am not drug-averse. God Bless science and medical technology. I LOVE Western medicine. But NOT EVERYTHING is good for everyone.
I said I wanted Aid not MAID…
We live in an Everybody’s-A-Victim, Everybody-Has-A-Mental-Health-issue, It’s-Not-My-Fault-Its-Whitey’s, Drugs-Are-Good, I-Just-Need-A-Healing-Lodge society.
I call it the LCD society. The lowest common denominator – the rotten fckn apple – gets to ruin everything for the rest of us and apparently its our fault.
And its going to get worse and worse.
When healthcare is a right, then healthcare providers are slaves to their patients.
The work of others cannot be declared your right.
All rights are inherent in the individual. Speech, thought, self defense, assembly, association, religion, mobility.
Rights cannot be revoked by government as they weren’t granted by government.
The Canadian Charter is not worth the paper it’s written on. The Freedom Convoy proved that.
Section 1 limits your rights:
Provision
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Similar provisions
When enacted in 1982, section 1 of the Charter represented an innovation in human rights law, as it set out a general framework for justifying limits on rights and freedoms guaranteed in the Charter. There is no similar provision in the Canadian Bill of Rights.
This is all a feature of socialized medicine, not a bug.
I don’t blame the workers I blame the system, I pay out 8000 a year for private dental and eye care. I walk an elderly man’s dog, he’s been waiting ten months for cataract surgery, they won’t return his phone calls or tell him where he is on the list. My husband suffered a detached retina and then developed a cataract, two weeks for surgery. He asked the clinic why the ole fella hasn’t heard from them, drum roll-they sent him home with the reference form and didn’t tell him to return it. So they have no record of him being referred, he didn’t get mad at them got mad at me for pointing out he didn’t return the form. Drum roll again he can’t see well enough to fill out said form.
Are you in the US? The 8000 seems awfully high for dental and eye care.
I’ll be in the minority here.
My 88 year old mother just passed away. And my father was 90 when he passed 8 years ago. We live in a rural area but have a have a really good hospital nearby.
I have been to the hospital more times than I can count, all hours. They actually received great care always. They were nice people so the nurses and doctors always treated them well.
A few years ago, they were pretty aggressive about pushing no emergency intervention. You had to really push.
But overall. They were always well taken care of.
But, you know what, I will never forgive the system or the government for vax genocide.
It was freaking horrible keeping Mom unjabbed and worrying.
I hope the jabs kill all those bastards.
Apparently treating me like a subhuman second class jogger leads to hard feelings.
We are about 30 miles from a small town hospital. I have been to emergency a few times over the years. As I recall longest I had to wait was around 1/2 hour to be seen. Staff from admittance thru to doctor were all professional and caring. Unfortunately word gets around and I have heard of people from Calgary making the 1- 11/2 hour trip to save waiting for 4 or 5 hours in emergency in the city under stressful conditions.
L – So many comments right on the money. Yet only Alberta has a provincial party, with a
muscular, take no prisoners, drain the swamp group, within the U.C.P.; that is strategic enough
to have outside the party populist groups .e.i. Alberta Prosperity Project and others, who
organize public town hall events, do podcasts … Thus retaining enough political momentum
to survive the the tyranny of the Bureaucratic State.
The Lockdowns/Mandates produced more (Christian) martyrs percentage wise : Rev. Aurtur Pavlowski, Tamara Lich, the Coutt’s 4, and numerous others. Why is it the only province to
emulate the populist heroes of 20th Century Canada? Saskatchewan, for example, exudes a
similar consciousness but two political reform attempts have petered out here. Maybe, it’s demographics, not enough critical mass of a people with the energy and hutzpah? Or it needs
someone intrepid enough to inspire? Proven so!
The only one who comes to mind,,, is Chris Barber. Your thoughts?
bla bla bla.
h’okay skill testing Q:
how many and exactly WHO of the hoSPITal schtaff voted for the little potato?
THEY re the ones who BROUGHT IT ALL DOWN ON THEIR OWN HEADS.
until every last one of them HALT Liberal SUPPORT THEN S…T…F…U
A big problem here is that he only got 6 months jail time for destroying the nurses life,
Our little city’s weekly rag has a story about our local hospital being ranked a top employer in Canada on the Forbes list of Canada’s Best Employers 2025. Yay, we’re in the top half of 300 employers on the list, 27 of which are in the Healthcare & Social Services category.
That tells you all you need to know about the economy and business in Canada. We produce nothing, we create nothing, we manufacture nothing. It’s all government and service agencies. Contrary to the National Post article, it’s great working in a Canadian hospital, at least according to Forbes. And, the healthcare still sucks.
Let me add to my comment. My husband and I moved to our little city almost one year ago. We can’t get a family doctor here so we’ve kept ours from where we were living, 250 km away. Last week, I was at our local hospital registering for a procedure and was asked where my family doctor was located. When I said the city, it was suggested I should “hold on to her.” Damn right I’m going to keep her for as long as I can. Most appointments are Zoom or phone calls anyway.
Just curious. Does your Family Doctor “look like you”? Because ALL my Doctors look like Bramaladesh. All the Doctors who “look like me” aren’t taking any new patients.
Yes, Kenji, she “looks like me.” I have looked up a few doctors in this area on Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons website to see where they studied. I’ve been less than impressed.
Maybe Elon could spare a couple of his people to trawl through the health bureaucracy and look out for the parasites. Would only take a few weeks and all the problems would be resolved.
Canada.. If you are LUCKY enough to have a family doctor.. They don’t do anything except send you off to specialists who shakes a tip jar in your face.. Universal healthcare only gets a raise if its broken..
Read that last line again..
Now if we were American paying 13% income tax (pick me up off the floor) we could pay for our own healthcare AND BE TREATED LIKE A PAYING CUSTOMER.. Naaawwww.. never going to happen…
Great comments, all.
As friend put it: “Canada’s health care system is great, as long as you’re not sick.”
If Amy Hamm is reading SDA (she should), come to Alberta. You can be my health care provider – I don’t need an HCP who will simply feed the system; I want someone with common sense.