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.
I had an episode years ago.
Cannot remember 6-8 weeks of my life.
Do not like/trust crowds (people over the amount of 3, counting me).
I learned I am not a ‘go into the night quietly,’ type of person. And that would include my attitude towards taking care of those for who I am responsible.
It gets tricky when triage and racial politics get mixed up. Most of the patients using ER’s for non-emergent issues are minority. Bump a higher percentage of them, and claims of racial bias ensue. Bet the same thing happens in Canada, compounded by the government’s obsession with “treating everyone equally”.
Have you seen the bill yet?
Hi miss marmelstien. I work for RWJ in south Jersey. How have you been?
Go to You Tube and look at videos put up by Canadians and how they talk about their ‘’free health care’’. Why the way they go on about it you’d think Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is walking among them, healing the sick, making the blind see and raising the dead back to life!
This is how leftists kill you, folks. Now the leftists who forced socialized medicine upon Canada have a new dead person to add to their demand for fewer humans and none of them had to pull a trigger.
JoMa
Those “Medicare for All” waiting times can be a biatch.
I’m fine! My mom got her final diagnosis in RWJ in 2015. As always, perfectly professional and right on target - sad as it was. I got sick in the summer of 2017 and they helped me out. I’ve never had a wait in the ER (I was once bitten by a dog and had to be treated!)
I didn’t know you worked there!
LOL!
Socialized medicine. If you’re not an elite socialist, you die.
No, but I've seen previous ones and they are ridiculous. But we are both on Medicare with a supplement, so they get a tenth or less of what they bill. I wish that someone would explain all of that to me. They bill thousands but only get paid hundreds. I can tell you that my wife has has open heart surgery and three major back surgeries, and with our insurance, we've never had any out of pocket expenses. And I just looked at what we are paying monthly for the supplements and they are less than $300 apiece.
As a kid I remember being in Canada at my grandmothers house listening to the debate over whether imposing socialized healthcare was the way to go or not. Support for it was very mixed.
Canada has socialized single-payer health care. Simple supply-and-demand says that making something free will depress the supply. Of course, Canadian healthcare is not "free," but when the government is the only payer, it will force the price downward to meet its budget, causing shortages.
It's why you can't buy toilet paper in Venezuela. All part of the glory of socialism. /s
roads?
“...we’ve never had any out of pocket expenses.”
Doesn’t the ~$7200.00 you pay for the supplemental come out of your pocket?
That’s why I put “American” in quotations. They are socialists who have no business being in a free country.
There is a shortage all over. There’s talk in Alberta of a two tier system. I try to explain to the young uns the joys of socialized care. It’s utter garbage. The fact too is that the government then controls what you get and how you get it.
Our emergency waits are in the hours long category. I wound up at the emergency room a couple of years ago. Waited about an hour while watching people. I could see there were only about 3, including me, that actually needed to be there. The rest were up running around, hitting the vending machines, running in and out to smoke. After an hour wait I walked out and went home. Suffered through til the next day and went to my doctor.
We are one of the only counties left that have a county hospital. A few years back my dad wound up there. After awhile I went up to the window and asked how long the wait was. 12 hours. They took my dad in faster because he was older and having problems breathing. We still waited about 3 hours.
I avoid our emergency rooms like the plague.
Ain’t “single payer” wonderful?
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