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    Ärzte warnen: Kanadier sterben in den verstopften Notaufnahmen dieses Landes an vermeidbaren Todesfällen.


    Ärzte warnen: Kanadier sterben in den verstopften Notaufnahmen dieses Landes an vermeidbaren Todesfällen.

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/emergency-department-deaths

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    2. Previous_Soil_5144 on

      We also wouldn’t have so many people ending up in ERs if they had a doctor and regular medicals, but that won’t happen any day soon.

    3. olderdeafguy1 on

      Canada has fewer doctors, hospitals and MRI’s than other countries, so this is not surprising. Obviously the lack of funding at all levels is the primary cause.

    4. iSmashedUrSister on

      But what about all those Doctors and Engineers they promised us? Where are they all going?

    5. Fragrant-Cut9025 on

      Meanwhile internationally trained doctors have to go through infinitely hard loops in order to get the license to work.

    6. Mysterious-Coconut on

      Sunday night my father (who has heart and kidney issues) was having a difficult time breathing. He’d been feeling terrible for 2 days. We sent him to the ER around 8pm. They told him to go home at 4am. They looked at his heart and said it was stable, but didn’t address his obvious symptoms. He’d been in bed for days, not eating, horrible stomach aches that kept him awake, dizzy, and short of breath. They just booted him out.

      Yesterday morning I phoned his cardiologist clinic and said we took him to the ER, but he still seemed to be going downhill. They told me to contact the Family doctor. I did, and I ran to Life Labs to get a urine sample kit. Turns out he had a really bad urinary tract infection which is pretty dangerous for seniors with his comorbidities. Now he’s on antibiotics.

      I don’t understand why the E.R told him to go home. Why it was up to me and his cardiac nurse + family doctor trying to figure out what it was by playing tag over the phone? You would think the ER would have been able to figure that out? Having been the ER with a sick dad a LOT over the past 2 years, I’m terrified at how bad it has become in my city. I’ve personally witnessed the decline. If you have vulnerable seniors in your family, be sure to have someone to advocate for them.

    7. Suspicious-Answer295 on

      I think everyone has an anecdote of a loved one waiting for an ungodly amount of time and being neglected in the ERs of Canada. Last year, my uncle nearly died from appendicitis, he was diagnosed almost immediately but was told there was no OR for him and he would wait. 24 hours later waiting on a hospital gurney in the ER, it ruptured and turned what should have been a minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery into a grueling open surgery with a prolonged recovery. On top of all this, this was in the middle of Toronto – supposedly where resources are concentrated. I shudder at those unfortunate souls in rural areas where there is almost no service at all available. Truly shameful.

      Especially given how much we’re taxed at all levels – federal, provincial, VAT, and more. I’m fine paying taxes if I feel like I’m actually getting something out of it, but instead they bleed us dry and then tell us to die quietly in a corner.

    8. toiletcleaner999 on

      I know i had to book for an ultrasound last week. I cant get in until end of April AN ULTRASOUND. Last year it was the same wait time as a blood test appointment here in edmonton. She told me they are so backed up its crazy. I went to my cardiologist yesterday and same thing . Last year maybe 10 people but this tome there must have been 70 people in that waiting room. The MOAs nurses and Dr’s looked exhausted

    9. NarwhalEmergency9391 on

      I went to the er with excruciating abdominal pain.  They ran all the tests.. all the dehumanizing internal tests. They sent me home the next morning with opiods and told me to follow up with my Dr.  I still don’t have the results from that er visit and it was a year ago.  I don’t know what’s going on with our system but people are dying because they’re literally being forgotten about and their files thrown out or not being transferred to Dr’s

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