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Stupidity Run Amok

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Scott Moe, you’re smarter than this.  At least, you should be.

Those who depend on rural emergency rooms are alarmed to see them close just as COVID-19 case numbers flatten in most of Saskatchewan.
 
Six rural emergency rooms had already been temporarily shuttered by Friday. Six more are following, including at the Arcola Health Centre, which is closing down emergency care on Thursday.
 
Judy Naylen depends on that care. She has “flare ups” of asthma that periodically force her to drive 10 minutes to the Arcola Health Centre in southeast Saskatchewan. The other options are bad. She said it would take 25 minutes for paramedics to get to her farm, and at least 40 minutes to drive to the nearest hospital in Estevan or Redvers.
 
“My throat swells, ” she said, “and there’s a good possibility that I wouldn’t make it there.”
 
Naylen said she’s “shocked” to learn the Saskatchewan Health Authority is moving forward with plans to temporarily close emergency services in Arcola when there are zero COVID-19 cases across the southern region.

 
That’s right.
 
Zero.

Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough

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Neil Macdonald, of all people;

It has been six years since doctors first accurately diagnosed what was making it so painfully difficult for Bagyan to urinate. What they’d thought was an enlarged prostate was in fact a buildup of scar tissue blocking his urethra.
 
For the first few years, his urologist repeatedly tried to clear it out, inserting catheters and scopes and even a scope with miniature scissors into his penis, working up to his bladder. Each time, the scar tissue would just thicken.
 
“He was making it worse,” says Bagyan, in the deliberate, fatigued cadence of someone for whom pain and discomfort never abates.
 
He needed surgery. But only a few surgeons in Canada had the training necessary to operate.
 
So patient Bill Bagyan entered the twilight world of the Canadian waiting list – a place of voicemails and messages and sitting on hold for an hour at a time.
 
[…]
 

Finally, in the spring of 2016, he was told that his name had somehow been misplaced, that he was not in fact on the waiting list, but that it had been corrected and he’d hear back by Christmas. Or maybe by early 2017.
 

A year later, in April of 2017, he contacted the Ottawa Hospital’s patient relations staff. When they got back to him a few weeks later, it was to tell him that unfortunately, he’d been misplaced again.

If you’re dead

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Of cancer you really don’t care if the hospital that might have saved you has a different medical standard.

The Canadian government says that although Canadians may seek medical care in other countries, they need to be aware of the risks involved.
“It is important to remember that medical practices, health standards and infection control measures in other countries may differ from those in Canada and could result in lower quality medical care,” the government says on its website.

Hard budgets and politics

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Keep talking, Brad.
Premier Wall, is a pretty good politician as well as an all around nice guy. Well, nice to most.
Saskatchewan’s budget last week was the polar opposite of the NDP budget in Alberta. Personally, I would have preferred an even more thrifty budget, but that really wasn’t in the cards.
No one got a break in Sask’s budget. In a nutshell: PST up a point, a Crown shut down, civil-servant wage rollbacks, rural libraries getting slammed, the cities losing money, farmers losing gas tax exemptions. Everyone is paying, but it’s short term pain for long term gain, a $B deficit is a far-cry from another $10B deficit in Alberta. Premier Wall previously paid down some 40% of the debt when times where good, he’s a nicer Ralph.
With every hard-luck budget comes the political price. The last thing Saskatchewan needs right now is an uptick the Sask NDP’s fortunes and the easiest way to do that is to shift attention west one province.
The implicit message is, “You really don’t want that to happen here, do you?”
No, Premier Wall, no we don’t.

Other People’s Money

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If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.*

Britain’s health service is engulfed in a “humanitarian crisis” that requires the support of the Red Cross to use Land Rovers to transport patients, the charity said on Saturday.
Founded in 1948, the National Health Service (NHS) is a source of huge pride for many Britons who are able to access free care from the cradle to the grave.
But tight budgets, an ageing population and increasingly complex medical needs have left many hospitals struggling during the winter season in recent years, prompting headlines about patients being left to wait on trolleys for hours or even days.

h/t Adrian

This Is My Doctor Mohammed, And This Is My Lawyer Mohammed

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We get letters.

Did you here the Gormley show this morning (podcast) on the article about International Medical Graduates? He interviewed the author of the Univ. of Calgary study and opened the line for call-in.
I called and criticized allowing those who refuse to shake hands with a member of the opposite sex or who are doing a residency in Obstetrics with inadequate training and experience as being dangerous.
John thought it was easily overcome with some training, I countered with if their moral view is that women are morally inferior, lives worth less than that of a man. Then training isn’t going to be enough.
I didn’t use the term Muslim nor Islam, and neither does the article published by the Un. of Calgary.
Though everyone knows what is referred to… that which cannot be named out of fear.
Shortly after, a Muslim doctor named Mohamed from Regina called in. He criticized John for letting me say such things about Islam, and that moreso he’d allowed me to do that before.
Then he criticized the National Post as the only paper that would publish such an article. To top it off, he criticized that the article/study had even been done and published.
By the time he’d finished I was reminded of Tarek Fatah’s warning that the M.B. is run by Engineers, Doctors and Lawyers… Their specialty is suppressing any public criticism of Islam using e.i. legal jihad — the threat of lawsuits.
What regular practicing physician has the time to call in an Open Line show? Could it have cost him $200.00-$300.00 in lost billing? Or not? Perhaps, simply covered by the next patient in the waiting room for the length of the phone call?
I thought you’d find it amusing 🙂

Indeed.

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