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[Mike K.]

Yeah, well, I don’t have a doctor.

If we pull a rabbit out of our hat and acquiesce to these demands, what does that say about our healthcare system? That we could operate it better if we wanted to?

[Nparker]

Break the rules once and you get a warning. Break them a second time and you're kicked out. We need to get much tougher towards those who break the rules and endanger others in all aspects of our society.

[Victoria Watcher]

Too many “compassionate” types running these institutions. Mostly women. The same types that eliminate library late fees or have “no-eviction” social housing. Time to harden up.

[Victoria Watcher]

Recognizing the demographic has changed to a younger drug- and alcohol-addicted cohort, Island Health plans to build or acquire separate facilities in Victoria and Nanaimo, but it will be a year or more before doors open.




Safe supply and our tolerance of drug use has lead to more of these types of individuals existing in the first place. Many might have been disabilitated by prior drug overdoses.

[Nparker]

What we need is MUCH more stigma to discourage drug use. If it's good enough for tobacco it's good enough for opioids.

[Mike K.]

Tobacco (nicotine) increases testosterone. Maybe that’s why it has been so targeted as we give alcohol and other drugs a wide stigmatization berth.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

No ambulance after half an hour and, she learned, none available

 

 

After the 76-year-old was told nothing was available, bystanders flagged down a passing ambulance

 

 

https://www.timescol...ailable-9488670

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 September 2024 - 04:26 AM.

[Mike K.]

Mum’s friend had to be driven to the hospital by an ambulance supervisor who finally showed up after a very long wait, in an SUV. This was back in August. I think she had been waiting for over an hour, after a fall.

My god, people. What is happening?

[Barrister]

They are busy with the most vulnerable. How dare you even suggest that the privileged need any help.

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria cab company makes changes after couple left "abandoned"

 

 

Jo Lind and her husband were left at a restaurant despite reserving a cab

 

https://www.vicnews....ndonded-7571261

 

 

Jo Lind says she was "pretty peeved" after she and her wheelchair-bound husband were left stranded outside a Greater Victoria restaurant by a cab company that cancelled their ride with a wheelchair accessible van hours after they were supposed to be picked up.

 

Lind's husband had been staying at Victoria General hospital due to a leg injury that left him temporarily in a wheelchair, and on his birthday, she wanted to take him out to a restaurant, the first time he left the hospital in 12 weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple things.  12 weeks?   What kind of leg injury could cause that extended stay?

 

And secondly, if he can leave the hopsital to go to a restaurant for dinner, why can't he be discharged?

 

Seems odd.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 October 2024 - 08:10 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

James Cullina is looking for a new home.

 

The 95-year-old has been living in the emergency department at Peace Arch Hospital for five days after running out of money to pay his rent at Sunnyside Manor, an independent living residence for seniors in White Rock.

 

“In the first couple of years, like two or three years, it was fine,” Cullina, who is a U.S. citizen and came to Canada 30 years ago, told Global News.

But he said as costs kept going up, living there was costing him more and more money.

 

“And I didn’t have any more and more money,” Cullina added.

 

After he used up his life savings and loans of $25,000, he said he was evicted on Sept. 30 from Sunnyside. He stayed for a day or two with a member of his church but that was not a long-term solution.

 

 

 

https://globalnews.c...ource=@globalbc

 

 

 

 

He's not Canadian, not sure what we should do.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 October 2024 - 04:56 AM.

[LJ]

I want to know who gives a 95-year-old with no assets and limited income a $25k loan.

[Matt R.]

Could be credit card debt.

[max.bravo]

That guy is truly society's most vulnerable. Not the 35 yr old meth addict selling dillies downtown and occasionally overdosing, only to get saved again and again. Surely the province can find some money to let him live out the remaining few years of his life.

[Victoria Watcher]

Others in his position would be given a space, even if they take 95% of his OAS or whatever Canadian income he is entitled to. I presume he’s not entitled to any money since he’s not Canadian. I wish the damn article would explain better.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 October 2024 - 07:29 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Quebec government is considering the possibility of changing how family doctors are assigned based on Quebecers' health to ensure that the most vulnerable have access.

 

Sources who are aware of the discussions told Radio-Canada about a scenario that has been studied for several months.

 

According to this scenario, Quebec patients in good health or with minor health problems would be referred to a modified Guichet d'accès à la première ligne (GAP), the service that is currently meant to give Quebecers without a family doctor access to medical appointments. 

 

This GAP would include all Quebec patients with no major or moderate health issues, including those who currently have a family doctor.

 

Only patients deemed more vulnerable, such as those with complex or chronic conditions such as cancer, mental health issues, cardiovascular disease or diabetes, would be assigned a family doctor. 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...uebec-1.7349257

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 October 2024 - 04:33 PM.

[Barrister]

Quebec does not sound much better than BC and they both suck. At least my wife and I have Medicare and American insurance as well. But that does not help my friends and neighbours.

[max.bravo]

Rationing. That’s called rationing.

[Victoria Watcher]

Canada’s newest medical school is slated to be one of the most discriminatory programs of its kind when it opens in 2025. Straight, white, “privileged” men won’t be warmly welcomed as MD candidates at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), as only a quarter of seats will be open to their kind.

It’s the exact kind of over-the-top, explicit, proud racism that diversity advocates assured us would never happen. Well, it’s here, and it’s vile, and in another decade, it might be the reason you switch to a medical AI for general needs and a Mexico-based private specialist for anything more complex.

https://nationalpost...nadian-academia

The standards for acceptance into the program, you should know, are quite lax. Applicants are required to have a degree and have achieved a GPA of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale, or a high B, but even that’s a soft floor — diversity candidates (i.e. most candidates) are eligible for consideration below that 3.3. No MCAT results are required, because the faculty is still under the false impression that standardized testing isn’t inclusive. Not all demographics perform as proficiently on these tests, but the data overwhelmingly show that it is predictive of academic ability across all backgrounds, which is what matters when we’re selecting future doctors.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 11 October 2024 - 12:38 PM.