Definitely not broken
"A Moncton man says his faith in New Brunswick's health care system has been shaken after he spent 13 hours in the Moncton hospital emergency room with symptoms of a heart attack"
"Horizon says if patients feel they did not get appropriate care, they are… pic.twitter.com/4efS91zegm
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 22, 2025
The clip with Ahmed the Doctor is just icing on the cake.
Well, he beat my number! I was 7 hours in the ER, waiting to be seen. Once they say me, it was another 2+ hours before they realized they had to shop me to another hospital pronto. What couldn’t they figure out? A major heart attack, with troponin levels throught the roof, one artery 100% blocked and two other at 70%. Our son overheard the cardiologist saying to the ER doctor, ” I don’t think he’s going to make it.
I don’t have many good things to say about our health systems, except that the cardiac surgeons did a fabulous job, once they got to it.
Oh, and it being Ontario, they would only do the one blockage that day. I had to wait 3 weeks for them to complete the job. Don’t get me started on the subject of the continuing care cardiologist once I got back home. He fired me.
The last time I went to an ER here in the backwards U.S., I announced that I was having a heart attack (been there before, stents to show for it). In one minute they were rolling me in a wheelchair. One minute afterwards, there was a doctor examining me. If only we had Canadian health care!
At least the US is doing things that can help with that. Reducing the population of illegal aliens will have a drastic effect on emergency rooms in many places in the US, because they clog up ERs by going there for all sorts of non-emergency conditions, knowing they can’t get turned away, will never be billed and will not have their residency status be a problem.
Clearly this guy doesn’t understand his role here. You’re supposed to wait in line and die QUIETLY, not make a fuss and cause a ruckus like some kind of American.
The hospital was experiencing “high medical acuity” you know. Nurses need their breaks. So get back in line like a proper Canadian. If you can’t wait then there’s a form for your survivors to fill out, and someone will look into it later.
Eventually a letter will be sent to your next of kin. It will say “We did all we could.”
Maybe not as broken as we think.
Heart attack symptoms if accurately given to triage result in a blood test to determine if HA has happened.
If no HA then you get to wait till your imagined symptoms can be dealt with.
Bigger problem – if you are waiting 10 hours in Emerg then this is not an emergency.
More broken than we fear, how about? Government loving apologists for a crumbling system are a part of the problem. Canada’s healthcare is third world dogshit’ befitting our rapidly approaching third world status. Shithole.
You are assuming accuracy in triage from a ‘typical HA. How about being left on the ambulance stretcher for 6 hours, no blood test results for another couple if hours and a CT scan almost too late. As The Phantom states, I was supposed wait quietly until I died. I am not a complainer, I’m a humorist and a cynic.
The true problem is insufficient staff, because they were let go during the vaccine rollout and way too many newcomers to deal with these lower staff levels.
New Brunswick is dependent upon equalization payments to hold their rickety social programs afloat.
They’ll be given $3.1 Billion next year, to 859k citizens
$3600 per citizen.
After Alberta and Saskatchewan separate, that’ll leave BC as the only contributor to their intergenerational welfare scheme, and I doubt the federal gov’t is going to make up the difference.
Indeed BC is working overtime to pump up their deficit and to escape their “have status”.
So while hours with “heart attack symptoms” may seem like a long time… those folks in NB may have some difficulties maintaining this standard of care. I don’t know how they’ll make it better, well I have a list of ideas but they’re not going to change until they absolutely have to.
If the patients don’t like the care they are given then they can go ahead and die. See your MAID representative today!
You’re not wrong…..recently a friend was in the Kingston hospital, he was 89 and was checking out, his health had deteriated to the point where the doctor gave him 3-4 days to live. That evening, the MAID vulture arrived to offer her service to an obviously dying man, we were in attendance and were stunned. Was it compassion, was it a courtesy or was there a bed shortage? She was told in uncertain terms to get the F—K OUT!
This probably affected her proficiency score while vying for reaper of the month.
The patient didn’t die, did he? So his socialized medical care was a rousing success!!
Next time he should ask the Nurses for a FN Shaman to come shake some rattles as him and have him gnaw on the bark of a willow tree. Sorry, you only have to wait for that “white” Western capitalist medicine.
Why this story now? Why him? This has been going on for years!!!! Our system is broken beyond repair. Scream for more doctors and medical practitioners and all we end up with are the outcasts and the unhireables. BC NDP announced to much media fanfare several years ago that they were offering a generous cash bonus and tax holidays to the soon to be graduating class at UBC Med to stay and practice in BC. I believe over 150 grads. With zero media fanfare we learned that exactly ZERO grads took the offer. I was not able to find any reporting on this fact. Not one member of the media felt it worthy to interview one of the grads to ask them why. Probably because it would have made Eby and justin look bad. Canada is becoming a shit hole and I’m afraid by design. With no signs of it slowing down either. Close to half a million immigrants this year yet again, likely more.
Those BC grads, and all the other grads across Canada, have benefited from from an education paid for by taxpayers of their jurisdiction. Make em an offer – sign an agreement to stay in jurisdiction for a certain period, compensate taxpayers for that taxpayer education or go elsewhere and pay for your own damn education – a straight freemarket solution.
Last election my MP’s newsletters bragged about a dental program – does this mean I won’t be able to get a dentist to go with my not being able to get a doctor? And the seat warmer still got reelected!
I remember that years ago (I don’t know if it is still the case) there was a program where a student in the US could have their schooling paid by one of the branches of the military and in return they would serve as a doctor in that branch for a few years after graduation.
It is a reasonable concept, and I don’t know why it isn’t utilized more like in your BC example.
Hey, this one for the bouncer, he a big, big Moncton man:
https://youtu.be/DCpmJHFMNRI?si=GkqyV3ZbE9Ig6Mau