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The Tolerant Left

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I’m old enough to remember when extremist rhetoric was a bad thing.

The Unabomber’s unhinged demonization of modernity and capitalism was a fringe position in the ’90s. Now the unhinged demonization of healthcare insurance, the pharmaceutical industry, and Big Oil (all industries, despite their inadequacies, that make lives better for everyone) is the norm. A generation of college students have been indoctrinated into believing the profit motive is killing people when the opposite is true.

One expects Mangione’s writing will be largely indistinguishable from what a person hears from elected progressives and pundits. Yet few will ponder why a seemingly rational Ivy League-educated engineer decided to become a hit man.

Pushing The Panic Button

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Lets just call it… SNAFU.

Trust The Evidence- Adapt to the Frenzy: the ‘Quad-demic’

The Guardian reports the number of hospitals ‘with flu’ in England has more than quadrupled compared with last year.’ We’re told that the UKHSA is currently monitoring the activity levels of four illnesses that all peak throughout winter: Flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus and norovirus.

Best Health Care In The World…Not

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Nothing says abject failure like the imposition of draconian penalties in order to keep doctors from leaving socialized medicine.

Dubé tabled legislation, Bill 83, in the National Assembly on Tuesday that would require students who studied medicine in a Quebec university to devote the first years of their professional lives, as general practitioners or specialists, to working in public institutions…

A doctor refusing to follow the rules would face fines of between $20,000 and $100,000 a day and per insured act.

 

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

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End stage socialized medicine;

These issues are significant. They stem from incomplete documentation of MAID requests to broken safeguards and potentially even non-consensual euthanasia. A quarter of all Ontario euthanasia providers received at least one compliance issue in 2023, though not a single provider was reported to the police, not even the provider who administered a death that the chief coroner described as “a blatant situation” where “the family and the deceased person suffered tremendously.”

That’ll Fix It

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Blacklock’s- Say Definition Aids Millions

A current program under the Canada Student Loan Act writes off up to $60,000 in loans for doctors and $30,000 for nurses who agree to practice in rural Canada. Previous regulations defined rural as remote “census subdivisions” but excluded population density.

“The current definition of an ‘under-served rural or remote community’ tends to exclude areas that may be considered rural within broader municipalities, making them ineligible for the benefit,” said the notice. It gave by example the hamlet of Sheet Harbour, N.S., population 800, that was disqualified from the program since it is a 90-minute drive from Halifax.

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

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Angel of Death.

On Oct. 27, a British Columbia judge intervened to prevent Dr. Ellen Wiebe, or any other doctor, from causing the death of a mentally ill Alberta woman. Justice Simon Coval granted a 30-day injunction to the woman’s common-law partner, one day before her death was scheduled to take place at Wiebe’s Vancouver clinic. A civil claim alleges Wiebe approved the woman’s request for MAID after a single Zoom meeting and without consulting her doctors. Wiebe declined to comment when contacted by National Post.

Safe and Effective®

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National Post- Ontario man granted euthanasia for controversial ‘post COVID-19 vaccination syndrome’

Identified as “Mr. A,” the man experienced “suffering and functional decline” following three vaccinations for SARS-CoV-2. He also suffered from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and personality disorders, and, “while navigating his physical symptoms,” was twice admitted to hospital, once involuntarily, with thoughts of suicide.

Best Healthcare System In The World

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Toronto Star- Home-care patients say critical medical supplies have stopped arriving since Ontario government changed distribution system

Around the end of September, Patti Moss and Steve Clark began to notice that things were missing in the package of medical supplies delivered to her home.

The couple from Bradford have been managing Clark’s pain and treatment from home after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer in August.

First, it was a syringe that was missing from a delivery of saline solution that Clark needs to keep him hydrated after receiving chemotherapy. Then, instead of a high-flow line needed to deliver the saline to Clark intravenously, a low-flow line was sent. Two weeks ago, the saline bags just didn’t show up.

Best Health Care System In the World

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Montreal Gazette- More Quebecers than ever waiting past acceptable delay for breast cancer surgery

In general, though, wait times for all types of surgery — not just for cancer and not only waits beyond acceptable delays — have been rising steadily in the past four years. At present, more than 162,000 Quebecers are languishing on wait lists for elective (or non-urgent) surgery, including nearly 11,000 who have been waiting for their operation for at least a year.

Best Medical System In The World

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Your doctor may be dumb as a post but at least he’s(she’s) not white(or Asian).

National Post- At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others

Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of only 3.3 on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted GPA is 3.95. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.

Great Success!

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Blacklock’s- Few Hear Of Pharmacare Act

Few Canadians know of cabinet’s pharmacare bill though cabinet has promoted it as groundbreaking, says in-house Privy Council Office polling.

“None were aware of any action from the federal government related to establishment of a national pharmacare program,” said the Privy Council report. Findings were drawn from focus groups nationwide. The Privy Council commissioned the questionnaires under an $814,741 contract with The Strategic Counsel, a Toronto pollster.

Best Healthcare System In The World

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Sun- ‘We are watching the collapse of our system in real time’

It’s now routine for patients to wait 10 to 15 hours for care, a potentially dangerous situation said Katz, who works at St. Boniface Hospital — noting bottlenecks aren’t in emergency departments, but rather in patient outputs.

Good thing there’s a new Sheriff in town.

Average ER wait times have gone up by almost an hour since the NDP took office, said PC Health Critic Kathleen Cook. Despite campaign promises, there still isn’t a concrete plan from the NDP to address staffing shortages, she said.

“We are 10 months in, and really all we’ve had so far is a listening tour,” she said.

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