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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: Siouxie Date: July 14, 2022, 7:08 pm
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[quote author=jsmth321 link=topic=281.msg5921#msg5921
date=1657836247]
What century are we in? Man waited 4 days in Ontario hospital
hallway for surgery to fix shattered leg.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/hallway-healthcare-ontario-1.6519209
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Wiarton is a tiny 22 bed hospital - so not really surprising
they didn't have room for him. I'm surprised the transfer took
3 days (he was taken to hospital on Sunday from Sauble beach -
transferred to London and was in surgery on Thursday (presumably
he was there for a few hours beforehand) - so the headline is a
little misleading.
I wonder if he requested to go to London for the surgery -
Toronto would have been closer, Markdale even more so.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: DaveLovesDee Date: July 17, 2022, 12:26 pm
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[quote author=jsmth321 link=topic=281.msg5857#msg5857
date=1657253854]
"She quit her job as an emergency room nurse at St. Michael’s
Hospital in Toronto earlier this year to work as a travel nurse
at a hospital in Texas. Now, she is getting paid three times her
salary in Canada and working only three shifts a week – 36 hours
– as opposed to the punishing 70-80 hours she was working in
Toronto."
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I wouldn't work in frontline healthcare in any country even if
they offered $100 an hour. If not a 'people' person.
That's why I changed from working as a Chef to working in
Security. It's much less stressful.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: DaveLovesDee Date: July 17, 2022, 12:42 pm
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[quote author=Siouxie link=topic=281.msg5925#msg5925
date=1657843713]I wonder if he requested to go to London for the
surgery - Toronto would have been closer, Markdale even more so.
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According to Google Maps, both London and Toronto are 2h45m by
road from Wiarton, but I suspect London has less traffic and
they're probably not as busy a hospital. London probably has a
contract to take Grey-Bruce patients and also with whichever
company transported the patient as well.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: Siouxie Date: July 17, 2022, 3:25 pm
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[quote author=DLD link=topic=281.msg5940#msg5940
date=1658079761]
According to Google Maps, both London and Toronto are 2h45m by
road from Wiarton, but I suspect London has less traffic and
they're probably not as busy a hospital. London probably has a
contract to take Grey-Bruce patients and also with whichever
company transported the patient as well.
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There were far nearer hospitals that have specialists who could
have undertaken the surgery, some less than an hour away.. such
as Owen Sound, Meaford or Southampton. 'Toronto' was meant as
generic area, not a specific hospital - there are many hospitals
in the GTA area - if you look at the road to Toronto area it's
mainly highway, as opposed to the smaller roads etc., to London
- I wonder if he went by helicopter? - :)
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: caretaker Date: July 17, 2022, 4:29 pm
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And we all know it takes OR time, surgeon time, recovery room
time, ward time, and if one of those things isn't there you get
delayed. Pre-pandemic I didn't get surgery for a broken leg for
3 days, and then got bumped for another few hours because a bad
car accident came in. If I'd eaten the sandwich they brought me
it would have been delayed again. :D Some people aren't in
good enough physical condition to withstand surgery and have to
be built up, and that can require some hospital time too. I'm a
big fan of our health care system because I've used a ton of it.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: August 20, 2022, 3:29 pm
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Ambulance's sitting empty because there are not enough
paramedics to staff them.
Maple Ridge a city of 82,000 has 0 staffed ambulances in their
community today.
The province is currently short staffed by 1,000 for paramedics.
Pay vs high cost of living in the issue.
HTML https://www.abbynews.com/news/lower-mainland-paramedics-warn-ambulance-service-critically-understaffed/+
In the past month Ashcroft has seen 2 people die because there
was no paramedics available.
In Bella Coola recently the RCMP performed CPR on a patient for
almost an hour before giving up and taking the body to the
morgue in an RCMP vehicle because no paramedics available.
In Surrey last month a man died after being stabbed because
there was no paramedics available.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: August 28, 2022, 1:44 pm
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A child under 12 months old in the interior died due to
paramedic delays.
The province is short 1,000 paramedics currently, so many
ambulances and shifts go unfilled resulting in long wait times
and people dying.
HTML https://globalnews.ca/video/9090222/b-c-child-under-12-months-old-suffers-fatal-cardiac-arrest/
Sounds like Kamloops was short ambulances so BC Ambulance sent
the towns only ambulance to Kamloops that day, resulting in no
paramedics being available locally when the infant went into
cardiac arrest.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: Siouxie Date: August 28, 2022, 3:54 pm
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That's crazy... it makes no sense as to why there should be such
a shortage
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: August 29, 2022, 9:45 pm
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/9092776/clearwater-er-closure-mayor/
"Interior Health has announced the emergency room at the Dr.
Helmcken Memorial Hospital will be closed overnight between Aug.
27 and Sept. 2 due to staffing shortages, continuing a 24-day
stretch that began on Aug. 11."
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: August 30, 2022, 6:58 pm
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911 operator for a large part of BC critially understaffed.
An independent audit found the 9-11 operator needed at least 125
additional full-time equivalent employees to meet current
operational demands, about an 80% increase from current levels.
HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/9095036/critically-understaffed-union-911-operators-extended-supports/
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