Re: Food snob?

Ranee Mueller <raneemdonot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:raneemdonot-C18BB8.11544924032006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

The medical system is a pain, but is an emergency back up thing
that is good. It doesn't have the wait times that Canadian and
British health systems do, but that is because they contract
through insurance companies, rather than letting the state run it
independently.

Gosh I wish you hadn't pushed this to the level of innuendo. Waiting
times for emergency in Canadian hospitals is fine, as a recent report
from the Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists points out.

http://www.csrt.com/e_news.php?display&318&item

Delays *may* occur when people need surgery for non life-threatening
illness or conditions. Part of the reason for this is that the US is
stealing away our surgeons because you don't have enough of them. So
if we experience shortages in certain types of surgery, all I can say
is, look in the mirror to see who's the guilty party here.

I went in Dec. 27, 2003, around noon with a heart attack and was
sitting in recovery within three hours of walking into the hospital.
That included diagnostic and a catheterization from my own
cardiologist, and some blood and ECG tests. I received the second
needed catheterization four days later, again from my cardiologist.
The entire cost of my hospital stay to me was 16,95$ for the rental
of a phone. The Ontario Health Insurance Plan paid for the rest.

I walked out of the hospital on my own two feet Dec. 31 and have not
experienced any recurrence of angina or any other symptom of cardiac
difficulty. The last time I had an annual checkup (a month ago), my
cardiologist (a highly reputed cardiologist, I might add) said he
didn't feel it was necessary to see me for two years, my recovery has
been that good. I rejoice in mentioning this because I know it frosts
Wolfie's reproductive nodes something fierce :-)

Our neighbour was hospitalized two weeks ago because of the worsening
of a brain tumour. She was seen to immediately, operated on as soon
as her condition became stable (a week later), and is now recovering
very well.

So given that my experience, the experience of a neighbour and an
organization of health specialists say the contrary, tell me...where
do you get this false information?

--

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why
the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Dom Helder Camara
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