Canadian Healthcare: Yes We Can!
At least the care was free!
Health officials are still investigating how a man found dead at the Health Sciences Centre ER waiting area escaped the attention of medical staff for 34 hours.Hat tip to Van Helsing at Moonbattery who opines:
"Staff weren't aware he was waiting for care," said Dr. Brock Wright, chief operating officer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, at a news conference this morning. "They didn't know he was in the queue waiting to be seen."
Wright said the man had been dead "for a number of hours" before he was brought to the attention of medical staff early Sunday morning.
The 45-year-old man, who has not yet been identified, did not register with the triage desk after being dropped off at the hospital by car, Wright said.
"We have never had a situation where somebody hadn't made it to the triage desk. Clearly that is a gap."
For the sake of efficiency, maybe bureaucrats could pass a new regulation requiring the really sick patients to wait in the morgue.
2 comments:
Presumably the woman at this hospital in Brooklyn didn't get charged either.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/waiting.room.death/index.html
I'm a bit uncomfortable with bureaucrats running the health care system, be it in Canada or NYC.
Maybe they were able to check her pockets for loose change.
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