Category: Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

Because of our government run, socialized medicare system there’s a lot of perverse incentives baked into this legislation. Treatment is expensive, and lets face it, a hassle for those whose job it is to provide it. People are being encouraged to off themselves for -The Greater Good™-

Globe and Mail- Canada’s medically assisted dying laws are set to expand this year. Here’s what you need to know

People suffering from mental disorders who have other underlying conditions may already be eligible for assisted dying. The expansion specifically includes people who only have a mental disorder.

That will make Canada one of a handful of countries where someone who is suffering from a mental disorder and whose natural death is not foreseeable will be able to receive a medically assisted death.

The Tom Woods Show- When the State Promotes Suicide

Tim Moen joins us to provide the background to some of the stories we’ve been hearing coming out of Canada about the promiscuous recommendation of euthanasia there.

Sit Down…

…watch Netflix, get fat and you’ll Save the NHS™-

The Telegraph- Don’t go on ‘long runs’ during NHS chaos, senior medic warns

People should avoid going on “long runs” to get fit in the New Year amid record pressures on the NHS, one of the country’s chief medical officers has said.
Sir Frank Atherton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales, said those thinking of shedding a few pounds should avoid placing undue demands on medical services as they suffer increasingly from delays, with ambulances facing long queues to admit patients to hospital.

Tommy Douglas, Not Dead Enough

Break out of the silo mentality and negotiate like you mean it.

Best Healthcare System in the World

Jean Marc Benoit MD- Canadian Emergency Departments in crisis?

The crisis in Canadian hospitals in 2021/22 does not appear to be driven by more severe illness (except in 20-44 year olds), or by the the number of ER visits, or by the number of admitted patients.

So what is the problem?

It seems highly likely that something knocked Canada’s hospitals’ efficiency off kilter in 2021/22.

Jean Marc Benoit MD- Pediatric virus crisis, Canada, fall 2022?

Ideally, a full look at the pediatric virus crisis in Canada this fall would incorporate ER visits, hospital admissions, and ICU admissions. For some reason, this data is not available in real time – although presumably Ministries of Health have access – so it is rather challenging to contextualize somewhat alarming reports by CBC, CTV et al about the “tripledemic” (RSV, influenza, covid19).

Brian Lilley- Canada takes dark turn in rush to expand medical assistance in dying

JP Sears- Satire, but just barely.

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

Canadian health care in crisis;

“The Red Cross being called into children’s hospitals in Ottawa, trailers being set up because of the overflow in children’s hospitals in Alberta, children dying because of the flu in B.C. It is clear that this is a national crisis and it cannot be solved at the provincial level,” Singh said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson.

Canadian health care in crisis;

A federal body in charge of funding medical research is holding a 90-minute “interactive workshop” on how to create TikTok videos.

Instagram and TikTok for #SciComm is being led by influencer and neurologist Dr. Samantha Yammine who is also known as “Science Sam” online. The event is hosted by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). 

Universal Death-Care

From consent to coercion to coverup: Even after seeing many shocking facts & revelations on the MAiD issue over the past 2 months, it came as a jolt to me that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has made a draft policy to the effect that the death certificate of MAiD recipients in the province will NOT show MAiD as the cause of their death…

Our lives are the government crop, always ripe for harvest.

Behold: The Glory of Socialized Medicine in Canada

This is what happens when government has a monopoly on the delivery of medicine: the government owns your body and those of your loved ones.

Canada currently has a shortage of fever and pain medications for children and the most common antibiotics prescribed to children. PM Blackface Hairdo has previously blamed “climate change” for the shortage.

When kids can’t be treated at home because there are no fever medications and no antibiotics available, they need emergency care. And here’s how that’s working out in Quebec-but it’s the same in many places across Canada.

Here’s what it’s like when your kids get sick in Québec right now – a long thread.”

Read the whole thing.

Hey Look, We Saved Healthcare…

oh, wait…

Maclean’s-  State of Emergency: Inside Canada’s ER Crisis

A few months ago, a middle-aged woman in seemingly fine health came to my ER, feeling under the weather. She had called her family doctor, but he was booked up and couldn’t see her for six weeks. I treated her instead, and when I pulled up her records, I saw a recent scan ordered by that same doctor, the results of which she hadn’t yet learned: cancer, already too advanced to cure. It wasn’t just one tumour; they were everywhere. It was up to me to tell her she had a handful of months, at most, and she should start getting her affairs in order.

The Dirty Little Secret Of Socialized Health Care

Nobody needs to be a doctor.

Families looking for a physician in Saskatoon are out of luck, as there are currently no clinics in the city accepting new patients.

Clicking on the link on the Saskatchewan Health Authority website that is supposed to provide a list of clinics in Saskatoon which are accepting new patients brings people to a one-page document that recommends every Canadian have a family doctor before saying: “Currently, there are no clinics accepting new patients.”

Dr. Andries Muller, a family physician and president of the Saskatchewan College of Family Physicians, said the lack of family physician services in Saskatoon is the result of a perfect storm of issues.

“There was always a shortage of family doctors, but now with the pandemic and everything else that’s happened, many people were burned out and they just couldn’t work anymore,” he said.

The Doctor Will Kill You Now

Rupa Subramanya- Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada’s Assisted Suicide Program

In 2017, the first full year in which MAiD, which is administered by provincial governments, was in operation, 2,838 people opted for assisted suicide, according to a government report. By 2021, that figure had jumped to 10,064—accounting for more than 3 percent of all deaths in Canada that year.

There have been a total of 31,664 MAiD deaths and the large majority of those people were 65 to 80 when they died. In 2017, only 34 MAiD deaths were in the 18- to 45-year-old category. In 2018, that figure rose to at least 49. In 2019, it was 103; in 2020,118; and in 2021, 139.

Today, thousands of people who could live for many years are applying—successfully—to kill themselves.

Ideology Trumps Effectiveness

CTV- Unvaccinated B.C. paramedics want to return to work amid staffing shortages

The staffing crisis has led to longer wait times for what is often a life-saving service. Back in August, an eight-month-old baby died in the Interior while waiting for an ambulance.

As BC Ambulance Service experiences one of its worst staffing shortages in recent history, unvaccinated paramedics say they want to get back to work.

But the Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia – the union organization representing more than 4,400 paramedics and emergency dispatchers in the province – doesn’t believe that will solve its staffing problems.

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