Desperate times up north:
Elsie Harvey has gone so far as to put an advertisement in this newspaper appealing to any doctor to take on the care of her mother, Etta Young, in this last stage of her life.“There must be one physician in Cobourg who will see it in their heart to take on a 91-year-old lady who needs medical care,” Mrs. Harvey pleads desperately in the ad.
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They have no “heart” (using the common sense and not the anatomical sense of the word). It is about time the mooning populace realized this. Both the providers and the plebeians would be better for it and we can get back to the important topic of figuring out how to further enrich the providers while ensuring that there exists no liability for their mistakes.
anon 12:19 has it wrong.
There is an infinite well of human suffering. I take on what amount of care that I can. But where ever I draw the line on work hours versus some family life, there is always just one more pathetic soul out there. And if I take that one, it’s not the end, because there is always ‘just one more’ who will next pop up.
If some one rushes to serve this person with the loudly broadcast public apeal, then perhaps the squeeky wheel is treated when others even more needy but suffering silently get passed over.
Under Anon’s preferred situation of physician impoverishment and liability would there be any more people available and willing to treat this patient?
This is not some nebulous ideal of human suffering. This is a specific individual that has medical needs. How can play time with family even be mentioned in the same context as the medical needs of this potential patient? Either meet the existing need in its totality or have criminal organizations such as the AMA step aside in their quest to block access to healthcare via mid-level providers.
AMA??? This is Canada!
Price controls = shortages. Always. Basic law of economics.
I think its time to limit/stop anonymous comments…I’d just to see a name/profile (even if its fake) attached w/ comments.
Until then, I’ll just know that only one Anon uses the word plebeians in their angry rants…
This is CANADA today. It will be Massachusetts three weeks from today (95% of Bay State PCPs have shut their practices to the hoards of ultra low fee new “univeral insured.”).
It was also France three years ago today, when I was on vacation there during a heat wave. 20,000 old folks like this dear lady were murdered by the government health system. There was a mandatory 35 hour MAXIMUM work weeks imposed, as well as 6-8 week vacations, for all physicians, nurses, allied health care workers, … the whole hospital staff.
The old ladies with dehydration, heat stroke, UTIs, etc were simply refused admission or even transport to the government hospitals. They died cooked alive in their little apartments. There were not enough morgues in France to hold all the bodies.
This is the Democrat Party’s plans for you and me.
Ed Sodaro MD
Amityville NY
anon 2:46 says “How can play time with family even be mentioned in the same context as the medical needs of this potential patient? “
Well then, what are you waiting for??? Stop friggin’ blogging and go out, get an MD, do residency & fellowship, and get out there STAT to take care of patients!
Since family life takes a distant second, & you have time to blog, you can do it!!! I am inspired by your altruism – I will forego sleep tonight to go have office hours!
I am not altruistic and unlike those of a certain profession I make to vaunted false oaths of altruism in order to corner the marketplace on a particular service and to escape responsibility for my actions. You made the oath and it is up to you to keep it. That was you on another post crying about how you should have some special treatment because of your “caring.” Well, here is your chance to show exactly how special you are. Stop with the mundane “family” nonsense and provide this poor woman with some special “caring” medical service.
As far as the subject story being about Canada and its relation to the AMA… there is a provider shortage in Canada as in other parts of the world secondary to the siphoning of providers because of the clamps put into place on the domestic training of providers.
anonymous 11:47 PM:
I am sorry, but you make no sense.
>>”I am not altruistic . . . vaunted false oaths . . . corner the marketplace . . .escape responsibility . . . .
“As far as the subject story being about Canada and its relation to the AMA… there is a provider shortage in Canada a . . . clamps put into place on the domestic training of providers. “
What a maroon.
I suppose the AMA is also to blame for doctors also choosing to emigrate to the UK and Australia. You know, they are all-powerful like that.
Burning your own straw men these days are you?
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