Global- Edmonton father dies in hospital E.R. waiting to see a doctor
More than eight hours went by before Prashant was called into the treatment area. “After sitting maybe 10 seconds, he looked at me, he got up and put his hand on his chest and just crashed,”
Well, like the UK, health care is free and now Canadian doctors will kill you if you request. That probably takes less than an 8 hour wait.
If they treat you, that costs lots of Loonies and Loonies are needed for more Muslim and Sikh immigrants, who need free housing, free food and free healthcare
Not sure why this is even a story. It’s all part of the plan.
And Canadians keep voting for this. Why?
He wasn’t an Edmonton father, he was foreigner father in Edmonton
Correct, the man wasn’t Canadian, his wife wasn’t Canadian, the doctor wasn’t Canadian either, nor was the nurse!
But it was ‘free’!
To be clear, it was likely free for them. It cost me a crapload in taxes though. Still waiting for my thank you letter
If an ambulance is covered by insurance, call the ambulance. You won’t have an 8 hour wait. The ambulance can’t leave the hospital until someone sees you. If you are dying the ambulance people will report your condition. The record wait for a dead person in emergency was the Indian who sat in a chair for 48 hours in a Winnipeg hospital 5 or 10 years back. Indians used to call the ambulance instead of a cab. Ambulances were free.
nobody bothered to tell him to chew some baby aspirin?
“They did an electrocardiogram (ECG) on him to check his heart’s function, but the family said Prashant was told there was nothing of significance and to keep waiting.”
So what are you supposed to do when the ECG shows nothing? Unlike in the US, you won’t get the blood test for the heart attack blood markers.
I used to think like the commenter’s above, until I had actual experience with a heart attack with an ambulance trip to the ER. I waited over eight hours before being seen by a doctor. Eight hours on a gurney before they did an ECG, which showed normal. The whole time my oxygen saturation was 98. The whole time pain was excruciating, but they were expecting it to seem like pressure on my chest. It didn’t. More like a large stake being driven through my chest. Finally, when my son explained that I don’t verbally express pain, ever, they did a blood test and CT scan. When they finally picked their chins off of the floor and put their eyeballs back in their heads, the neurologist and GP packed me into an ambulance not thinking I would make it to the next hospital, where they do stents 24/7. The stenting neurologists were shocked I didn’t have any damage, even though there was 100% blockage for hours.
When I confronted our family physician about the wait time, he shrugged and said, “but you’re okay now.” Cold comfort. I could easily have ended up like that poor man with a grieving wife and children. The only kind words I got from my GP were “you’re so lucky you should go out and buy lottery tickets.”
Don’t get me wrong. I happy for the care I got when it was bleeding obvious, but the wait and excruciatingly slow diagnosis were inexcusable.
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