ah yes, the condensed blessings of socialized medicine
Posted on 03/21/2019 7:14:30 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Marianne Porter spent some of the final hours of her life hunched over and moaning in pain as she waited to be seen by an emergency room doctor at Moncton Hospital.
Porter waited for 11 hours before she was eventually seen.
It’s a period of time that Porter’s sister, Donna Bordage, believes contributed to her death only hours later.
Bordage says Porter went to the hospital on Saturday morning for what she believed was a hernia.
Porter’s vitals were normal, but she was left in the waiting room in severe pain, waiting for hours before she was finally seen.
Doctors worked on her sister overnight, but her kidneys eventually shut down and she died just after 9 a.m. on Sunday.
Porter was only 58. She had three children.
Although Dr. Serge Melanson couldn’t speak to the specific incident of Porter’s death, the president of the New Brunswick Medical Society said that at times, half of the ER beds in the Moncton Hospital are taken up by people who are admitted to the hospital but can’t be transferred to a unit or another ward due to overcrowding.
“As much as we may look at the data in terms of numbers, in terms of wait times and percentages of hours, for example, at the end of the day, it is our patients and the community at large that we are failing by not meeting their needs in a more timely fashion.”
Melanson says the Moncton Hospital’s ER isn’t meeting any of its wait time targets and it’s begun taking a toll on both patients and staff.
“As a practicing ER doctor, I have a lot of regret when I see a patient who’s waited eight hours to see me,” he said.
The problem of overcrowding is a challenge in New Brunswick, and something that doctors say needs to be fixed.
One of the suggestions is for more patients to look at other health care options online. It’s believed it could reduce wait times and deter non-emergency health issues from ending up at the ER, taking up valuable space for those who need it.
Bordage says she believes hospital officials did everything they could, but she believes that overcrowding was a contributing factor in her sister’s death.
Socialized medicine...
In the time she sat there in agony she could have driven to the Houlton ME Regional Hospital, in US and been seen in less than an hour.
Another casualty of the illegal invasion that will never be acknowledged.
May she rest in peace.
Should have went to Robert Wood Johnson or St. Peters. RWJ has an excellent ER. I was only there 2 summers ago.
This can’t be true. Canada’s healthcare is stellar. Just ask a y Democrat.
Her appendix probably burst!!!
that happened to someone we know in canada- darn near died-
> Socialized medicine... <
That’s the bottom line. Rick Harrison - of Pawn Stars fame - said that socialism is like heroin. It feels good at first. But it will eventually kill you. This sad story is more evidence that Harrison is right.
As for me, if that poor woman was a relative of mine, I would want to talk to the ER administrator. No, wait. My Louisville Slugger would want to talk to the ER administrator.
Socialized medicine: bad care for everyone.
But I thought Oh-Bummer-Care would....
What if she had just left and called an ambulance?
Socialized medicine ...
Obamacare, Ocasiocare, Democratcare, Berniecare,
all mean keep a closet full of Jack Daniels whiskey to numb the pain.
I took my wife to the ER here in Northern California this afternoon. She has been suffering with what has turned out to be viral infection which has nearly incapacitated her. She was seen within ten minutes of our arrival. Within 10 additional minutes she had had an evaluation by one of the ER doctors. That was followed within 30 minutes with, a chest X-ray, an EKG, a blood draw (including a scan for flu), an IV, and an Albuteral infusion. Everything was negative, so she was sent home with an Albuteral inhaler. All of that within an hour and a half! I won’t name the hospital, but they have even started the process of getting her a local PCP, since hers recently retired and she had been seeing a PCP at Stanford Hospital which is 50 miles distant., and they are supurb! BTW, she’s feeling a whole lot better and its been only about four hours. Canada should be ashamed of its “healthcare system.” They are freeloading here in the United States because we have the capacity to see their citizens, while they do not. Isn’t Socialism great! Not!
As I read the article, I was wondering who was doing the overcrowding, Canadian citizens or recent arrivals. Don't think it ever said, naturally.
Socialized medicine: bad care for everyone.
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Except for politicians and their closest donors.
When I travel around the USA, I get “Americans” saying how nice it must be to have free healthcare. I tell them I’d trade them in a heartbeat. My healthcare is far more costly than theirs with sub standard treatment.
ah yes, the condensed blessings of socialized medicine
Houlton is a good hospital too.
A few years ago I visited British Columbia's official Provincial health authority website.Among other things that website said that in BC a patient can wait for as much one year for at least one type of *heart* operation.
Just sayin'...
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