A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Thursday, September 25.
A ventilation leak of potentially fatal glycol fumes at a Saint John, New Brunswick, hospital forced a partial evacuation yesterday. One OR is closed today, but otherwise the hospital is back up and running as normal. [Saint John Telegraph-Journal]
The recent threat of a NAFTA challenge to Canadian public-healthcare protection rules might be just what some Canadian politicians (read: Gordon Campbell, Jean Charest, and ohers) have been hoping for, Canadian Doctors for Medicare member Dr Randall F White surmises in a new essay. [Canadian Doctors for Medicare] Besides what seems like a patently unfair dig at the man behind the free-trade threat, Melvin Howard, for allegedly being bipolar (unless I am misunderstanding him), Dr White's essay is a very smart piece of writing on the subject.
A British Columbia government health official wants to see a second medical school in the province, perhaps at Simon Fraser University. [Vancouver Sun] There was some talk in Coquitlam about a satellite campus of UBC's medical school a while back, which I wrote about in my article "Does Canada need more med schools?"
With Canada's healthcare system apparently entering a period of flux, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada is concerned about protecting medical education. [RCPSC]
Advice on how health professionals can avoid having an envious workplace: hire well, cooperate, encourage cooperation, communicate, and pair up mentors and trainees. [The Globe and Mail - The Office blog]
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Thursday, 25 September, 2008
What's in the news: September 25 -- Leaky pipes, a new BC med school, and envious MDs
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RE: the face of "asset-stripping"
ReplyDeleteI think it was Anne Francis who commented (on the multiplicity of gowns she wore on " What's My Line"):
"it is only decorated "waist-up" because that is the part you see...everything under the counter is plain "
Having heard the "above the counter" tales of bravado and expansion of expertise we have an unheard participant in the room.......the patient.
The patient is "under the counter" asking:
Could I be bathed?
Could I have help with transferring?
I need assistance to get up and later to go to bed.. is there anyone to do that?
I can't find a doctor who does house calls,are there any?
I have no transportation to go to several sites for testing?
My doctor will only listen to "one ?complaint at a time"...why is that?
Why are the same people in the waiting room everytime I come?
I am too sick to figure this out ..and doctors don't care anymore.... so I will just do nothing....*
*anyone need an ambulance? ( cha-ching)
Question:
How does this encourage asset-stripping?
Possible answers:
Speaking of "counters"...whose counting anyway?
Who cares.
Someone has to pay.. if we get more from keeping you ill than making you better ..... so be it.
Egads ...... what are we doing!