Lion Advocacy- “This is British Columbia’s “final consent” arrangement. It allows third party to sign on behalf of patient to end patient’s life, irrevocably. No independent legal oversight/advice for patient to ensure consent is valid, or properly authorized.”
More Please
The Government Will Kill You Now
Yakk Stack- Another Alarming Medical Trend in Canada – MAID
3.3% of the Deaths in Canada actually equates to 10,064 people that were assisted in their final passing – up from 7,630 in 2020:
It’s only Cancer
Just walk it off.
The Telegraph- Lockdown hysteria led to an NHS cancer catastrophe – and the Government is in denial
August seems a tad early for the NHS winter crisis but, apparently, it’s never too soon to start warning people not to use their health service. To be fair, we only spend £136 billion a year on it and they have got one of the world’s biggest bureaucracies to look after, fleets of luxury cars to subsidise for staff etc, so it would be entirely unreasonable to expect any treatment. You do have to marvel, though, at the brass neck of those who are planning a campaign which will urge the public to avoid A&E
I had an interesting conversation the other day with an acquaintance who retired from the RCMP a few years ago. He’s been doing some contract work auditing medical expenditures. Apparently one of the things the bean counters are quite proud of is all the money they saved the system during the lockdowns.
Who can know anything?
I’m glad a few people on Twitter can spare the time to screenshot statements from the “experts”. Otherwise, the experts would probably claim they never made those Tweets. Repeated dosing? Looks like that’s exactly what’s coming down the train track.
Your Sunday Steyn
“Experts” Have A Plan
A simple, elegant plan.
Globe and Mail- To Address Canada’s health care crisis, start by containing COVID-19
Fahad Razak, Arthur Slutsky and David Naylor are physicians and professors in the University of Toronto’s Department of Medicine. Katharine Smart is the president of the Canadian Medical Association; Alika Lafontaine is its president-elect.
Merchants Of MAID
“Medical assistance in dying” – I’m old enough to remember when it was called “killing”.
A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was shocked when he was unexpectedly and casually offered medical assistance in dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee, sources tell Global News.
Sources say a VAC service agent brought up medical assistance in dying, or MAID, unprompted in the conversation with the veteran. Global News is not identifying the veteran who was seeking treatment.
Earlier: An Ontario man suffering from an incurable neurological disease has provided CTV News with audio recordings that he says are proof that hospital staff offered him medically assisted death, despite his repeated requests to live at home.
Systemic witchhunts
In an effort to leave no stone unturned in the search for evidence of systemic racism, these intrepid U of M medical researchers have recently discovered a startling culprit: the pulse oximeter.
“This shows that systemic racism is built into the technology we use and affects health-care outcomes for minorities,” Rush says. “Not only is our medical technology giving us biased and incorrect information, but clinicians are also using that inaccurate information to make clinical decisions that cause harm.”
To be really accurate, maybe the studies need to set up a Race Classification Board first. There must be some retired bureaucrats from South Africa who could be tapped to help out with that.
Meaningless gestures
If reform of our collapsing Medicare system is just going to consist of contracting out a few services to private clinics, but otherwise continuing the prohibition on direct payments between consumers and health care providers, that’s not actually reform.
The bottom line is that all healthcare will still be provided to Canadians. They will not have to pay out of pocket.
What reform in Canada will mean though is allowing more practitioners and clinics to provide more services to Canadians. We need options that will reduce wait times.
If It Ain’t Broke Fix it
“Free” Healthcare
Pipe down and get in line.
Western Standard- Healthcare costs for average Canadian family to hit $16,000 this year
The Hero We Deserve
https://twitter.com/thejagmeetsingh/status/1552758420222013442
Best Health Care System in the World
Following the “science”.
CTV- Ontario hospitals plan to uphold COVID-19 vaccine policies amid ‘crisis’ staffing shortages
Spending more money.
Sun- Canadian medicare — high costs, long waits, mediocre outcomes
Hiring more managers and “experts”.
CBC- London’s hospitals are bleeding frontline staff, but more senior execs keep getting hired
Another nail in the coffin
When faced with the ongoing collapse of socialized medical care, who would think it wise to double down and extend the mayhem to dentistry? Jagmeet Singh and his coalition partner, that’s who.
Though details are scarce, the sources say the temporary solution would involve giving qualifying families the money directly to fund their dental health services while the government works on a more permanent, expanded program.
Greatest Healthcare System in the World
Your duty is to live a healthy life, pay lots of taxes and then die quickly and quietly.
Michael Campbell’s Money Talks- For some politicians and judges patients dying is a price they’ll pay to protect the system. (6 minutes)
Full Episode link one
Full Episode link two
Vancouver Sun- B.C. Court of Appeal upholds ban on private health care clinics
Medically Assisted Suicide Killing
There, I fixed it.
A 71-year-old widower was admitted to a Southwestern Ontario hospital after a fall. His family says during his admission he contracted an infectious diarrheal illness. He was humiliated by staff for the smell of his room, his family said. He developed a new shortness of breath that was not comprehensively assessed. In this context, a hospital team member suggested he would qualify for MAiD. The team said he had end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and it was terminal. The patient was surprised by the diagnosis but trusted the team.
Within 48 hours of his first assessment, he received a medically assisted death. Post-mortem testing showed he did not have end-stage COPD. His family doctor, when notified of his death, also stated he did not have end-stage COPD, but the team had failed to contact her when they were assessing his history.
In the immortal words of a former Saskatchewan NDP cabinet minister, ours is the duty to “live healthfully and die quickly”.
(h/t Sooke)
Privatize It
At the very least shift the funding directly to patients. Hospitals and administrators will then have to treat people like customers instead of liabilities. In the current set up everything is backwards because patients are a problem for the system.
Sun- Ottawa’s share of health-care funding to be top concern at premiers’ meeting in B.C.
National Post- As Canada’s health system burns, Trudeau and the provinces debate the firehose
By the way we shut down the entire country for two years, ran up all the credit cards and scared the shit out of everyone because that was supposed to “save” the system. Not make it worse. Thank-you “experts”.
They Should Have Gotten Vaccinated
The great bureaucratic and administrative health care gamble of the last couple of years bears its ugly fruit. They were warned that this was going to be the inevitable outcome. They didn’t listen. And they still think they were right.
In the emergency department of Toronto’s Michael Garron Hospital more than 300 people a day seek medical help, an increase of 40 to 50 per cent from pre-pandemic times.
At St. Michael’s Hospital, the emergency department is seeing patients who are much sicker than those who sought care before COVID-19.
The result is that 3,000 more patients were admitted to the hospital in the last year compared to the year before COVID-19 hit.
The demand for beds is occurring at the same time as a critical shortage of registered nurses and a patient can’t be moved to a bed unless there’s a nurse that can take care of that patient. It’s a problem Snider said isn’t unique to any one institution.
Best Healthcare System in the World
Global- ‘We are absolutely destroyed’: Health workers facing burnout, even as COVID levels ease
Physician burnout has never been higher in Canada, according to the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). More than half of physicians report high levels of burnout—nearly double pre-pandemic levels and nearly half say they are likely to reduce clinical hours in the next 24 months, CMA president Dr. Katharine Smart told a federal committee studying Canada’s health workforce in February.