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ER doctor's quick action saved life of 8-year-old girl
Girl sent to Detroit
Windsor Star ^
| June 8, 2012
| Monica Wolfson
Posted on 06/10/2012 1:50:46 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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I posted this story for two reasons.
Firstly, I want my American friends to note what happens when government takes over health care. Not to go too far into the weeds but, some background. Windsor is in Canada, one mile south of Detroit. There is no pediatric neurosurgeon in Windsor so the girl could not be treated here. The current controversy involves a government sanctioned organization (Criticall) that is supposed to find a place for patients when there is no care available locally. Critical patients are transported by an air ambulance organization, also a quasi-government organization. This doctor had a patient who needed immediate care. He knew that a 30 minute wait while Critical decided what to do and another 4 hour round trip helicopter flight to London, Ontario would mean death for his patient. He cut through the government red tape, secured treatment in Detroit, and saved his patient.
This comes on the heels of a case where a nine year old girl died in a similar incident.
I hope my Canadian friends are as awestruck by the American hospital's response to the situation as I was. The Detroit hospital immediately sent a four person team to escort the patient back to Detroit for treatment. The little girl was operated on and she is recovering nicely. I'm not sure things work like this anywhere else in the world, except for how Israel treats Palestinian patients.
To: Clive
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posted on
06/10/2012 1:54:59 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Former Proud Canadian
This is a very good example of what government health care causes. What will Canadians do when America finally succumbs completely to the socialist disease?
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posted on
06/10/2012 1:57:00 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
To: BfloGuy
Well, things won't be so good by then, will they? But, don't worry about Canada, what will happen to the US?
Seriously, with any luck some sense will come to our political leaders. There is no reason that people can't pay a small user fee for a doctor visit or a hospital stay or even an ambulance ride. Believe it or not, a $5 charge for all of these services would go a long way to relieving the situation.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:09:17 PM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
A couple of comments:
GOD BLESS this doctor. He took a heavy risk against the bureaucracy to rescue this child.
Also GOD BLESS the medical team in Detroit. Detroit may get a lot of well-deserved knocks but in this case when it came to what was important, these folks stepped up.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:10:34 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
To: Former Proud Canadian
So Canada paid for their citizen’s hospital bills? Then why can’t Mexico do the same? This would solve at least some of our problems - not that the communists in D.C. actually want this however....
It’s our own government that is against us. Although I guess there’s no point in saying this at FR since you all already know.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:12:54 PM PDT
by
Aria
( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
As long as a system allows individual initiative to do what's needed it isn't totally broken.
The key question here is "Will the doctor be punished?"
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:13:28 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1237 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
A few years back a union leader from Windsor was held in an ambulance at the border. Poetic justice aside, it was wrong stopping him.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:23:16 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Former Proud Canadian
When I was born in 64 the total cost was only a couple hundred dollars.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:27:34 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Former Proud Canadian
I was wrong. My mother says the total hospital bill for my delivery was $80 in 1964.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:34:59 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
That is $2,800 in today’s dollars. FYI
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:39:05 PM PDT
by
Waywardson
(If you fear Obama..... vote for Romney. If you fear God... DON'T !)
To: freedumb2003
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:40:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: cripplecreek
When I was born in 64 the total cost was only a couple hundred dollars.
....
I was wrong. My mother says the total hospital bill for my delivery was $80 in 1964.Did you have to yell up from the basement?
:^0)
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:40:23 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Fully expect the Canadian authorities to punish this man. I’d bet on it.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:41:45 PM PDT
by
kjo
(+)
To: Waywardson
That is $2,800 in todays dollars. FYI
My dad made around $60 per week as a garbage man when I was born.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:47:48 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: raybbr
Did you have to yell up from the basement?
Dr Keefer was locally famous for being a drunk but he got the job done and delivered a lot of babies including a few Michigan FReepers.
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posted on
06/10/2012 2:50:40 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
When I was about 2 or 3 I had my tonsils removed on the kitchen table by a doctor who came out to the house we were living in. This was in about 1945 or 6 and such things were common in those days according to my mother. She had to supply some boiled towels and wash cloths and help the doctor administer chloroform which was sprinkled on a wire mesh screen covered by a wash cloth that was placed over my face. I can remember that green wash cloth to this day and that I got all the ice cream I wanted after the “fun” was over. My mother presented me with a hand written bill signed by a Doctor (who's name I cannot remember) a few years before she died. I think it came to about $12.00, big money for our family in those days I was told.
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posted on
06/10/2012 3:02:05 PM PDT
by
mongo141
(Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
To: mongo141
I probably would have died if I had my tonsils taken out at home. Apparently some late night bleeding sent me back into emergency surgery.
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posted on
06/10/2012 3:05:07 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Believe it or not, a $5 charge for all of these services would go a long way to relieving the situation. Yes, of course. After posting, the obvious answer that Canada would begin to encourage private medical services occurred to me. The socialization of America's health care is probably what it will take.
Harper could surprise, though.
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posted on
06/10/2012 3:17:44 PM PDT
by
BfloGuy
(The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
To: cripplecreek
I have, laying between my arms as I type, a hospital bill incurred by my Aunt in August of 1937. She was treated for appendicitis.
10 days at $4.00 per day, $40.00
Operating room, $15.00
Anesthesia, $10.00
Lab tests, $5.00
Medicines, $2.80
Total, $72.80
Unfortunately, the doctor’s and anesthesiologist’s bills did not survive in our family archives, so I don’t know what they were.
My Aunt lived 45 more years, so the care, at least in this case, was as good then as it is now.
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posted on
06/10/2012 3:19:11 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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