National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Diemer, Ulli
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-ColumnistTraumatized.htm
Date Written: 2006-12-26
Publisher: Ulli Diemer / Radical Digressions
Year First Published: {19283 National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn NATIONAL POST COLUMNIST TRAUMATIZED BY HAVING TO WAIT HIS TURN Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors? Diemer, Ulli http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-ColumnistTraumatized.htm Ulli Diemer / Radical Digressions Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor. 2006-12-26 2006 2012 UlliMooseLogo.jpg ART Article This particular horror story - Kay calls it his "run-in with the system" - begins when he shows up at his local hospital's emergency room with an infected knee. The trouble is with his left knee, he tells us - reinforcing his belief, no doubt, that anything on the left is unreliable and troublesome. The inefficient socialistic health care system sends him off for treatment within ten minutes - not too shabby, most of us might say - but it takes a lot more than efficiency and high-quality appropriate care to please a National Post columnist. Soon he is lying in a public hospital bed, intravenous clindamycin trickling through his veins, and thoughts about how much nicer a private hospital bed would be flooding through his brain.
<br>Mr. Kay returns to the hospital the next day for a follow-up treatment, and this time - the horror! - he has to sit and wait before he's seen. In fact, he tells us, "all but the most acute cases" have to sit and wait their turn. There is - hard to believe, but it's true - no special queue for the affluent and the privileged. CX7927 1 false true false CX7927.htm [0xc000954150 0xc00050f1d0 0xc0000ee990 0xc0001264b0 0xc0001275c0 0xc000190480 0xc0001911a0 0xc0001a9b90 0xc00021bdd0 0xc0007cadb0 0xc0005cf020 0xc000cc35f0 0xc00244e510 0xc00166ab10 0xc001fa6cf0] Cx}
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX7927
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
Abstract:
This particular horror story - Kay calls it his "run-in with the system" - begins when he shows up at his local hospital's emergency room with an infected knee. The trouble is with his left knee, he tells us - reinforcing his belief, no doubt, that anything on the left is unreliable and troublesome. The inefficient socialistic health care system sends him off for treatment within ten minutes - not too shabby, most of us might say - but it takes a lot more than efficiency and high-quality appropriate care to please a National Post columnist. Soon he is lying in a public hospital bed, intravenous clindamycin trickling through his veins, and thoughts about how much nicer a private hospital bed would be flooding through his brain.
Mr. Kay returns to the hospital the next day for a follow-up treatment, and this time - the horror! - he has to sit and wait before he's seen. In fact, he tells us, "all but the most acute cases" have to sit and wait their turn. There is - hard to believe, but it's true - no special queue for the affluent and the privileged.
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