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Striking professional health workers at Melfort yesterday |
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Is this bad? |
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Saskatoon - Saturday, September 28, 2002 - Author's name withheld | |||||||
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With about two thousand professional workers off the job in hospitals and the specialists
who serve as paramedics Saskatchewan's medical health care system is in a shambles.
A week ago Thursday foreseeing this coming strike the editor of this web site wrote about
the deliberate disruption of medical care service by disorganising it so that it
is non-function. Early this past week we received this account of a visit to a specialist in a medical facility in Saskatoon. |
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We're in to see Dr. -------------- for the official pat on the head to get the paperwork done: the appointment is at three and at 3:15 we meet up in the waiting room. She says | ||||||
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"We can just this exam room, its the closest". |
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She opens the door, stops and says | |||||||
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"Oh, you're still - are you ok?" |
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As she steps into the room I back away. Soon she blasts out to the receptionist's desk which is only across the hallway and calls a Code Blue. | ||||||
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Things started happening real fast. | |||||||
This is 3:15 - they close up shop at four. From what we heard, the woman in there was an amputee diabetic, had an appointment in the morning and after Dr. ------------- attended to her was left in the care of a student. Last known contact? 10:30 AM. | |||||||
Diabetic. No dinner. T-Shirt, sweat pants, cold room. She was non responsive and taken out of there with oxygen and tubes running from everywhere. | |||||||
There was one other person in the waiting room and they went to a different section than us. Had the doctor chosen a different room, the cleaning crew would have a rather unpleasant surprise. As it was she was damn near dead. | |||||||
She waS as outpatient and clearly unable to live on her own. Yet no one accompanied her, no one missed her not coming home. She had no advocate at all. | |||||||
When I talked to my regular doctor about the incident he said one would be amazed at how often this happens in an ER. However this wasn't an ER..... | |||||||
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