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#2201 Mike K.

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Posted 20 December 2024 - 08:12 AM

Who thought you were joking?

Does this mean, that we are likely to see more doctors who provide abortion services, expanding their clinical practices to also provide MAID deaths? Wiebe provides both services.
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#2202 Barrister

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Posted 20 December 2024 - 08:13 AM

From missing cradle to grave.


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#2203 dasmo

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Posted 20 December 2024 - 08:57 AM

Combine abortion, MAID, unknown drug side effects and medical mistakes and you must have the number one cause of death in Canada.

#2204 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 20 December 2024 - 09:02 AM

Don’t forget waits.



The study, conducted by SecondStreet.org, indicates that in 2022–23, a five-year high of 17,032 patients died while waiting for medical procedures, some of which could have saved lives.

https://thehub.ca/20...ave saved lives.

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#2205 LJ

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Posted 20 December 2024 - 07:54 PM

Any chance we could introduce Dr. Wiebe to Trudeau?


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Posted 22 December 2024 - 09:37 AM

Don’t forget waits.

The study, conducted by SecondStreet.org, indicates that in 2022–23, a five-year high of 17,032 patients died while waiting for medical procedures, some of which could have saved lives.

 

How many of those people waiting are politicians or their buddies? Heck even your favorite hockey player gets an MRI within hours of the most minor injury.

 

No way those who are benefitting want to change a system that works well for them.



#2207 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 22 December 2024 - 09:59 AM

How many of those people waiting are politicians or their buddies? Heck even your favorite hockey player gets an MRI within hours of the most minor injury.

 

No way those who are benefitting want to change a system that works well for them.

 

And FIFA players:

 

 

 

 

 

FIFA asks that players, VIPs get priority at hospitals in 2026

 

Internal Ministry of Health documents call ‘priority access’ to hospital care for FIFA players and VIPs a ‘requirement’ of the tournament — a concept one bioethicist says is 'very disturbing and ethically problematic'
 
 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 December 2024 - 10:04 AM.


#2208 LJ

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Posted 22 December 2024 - 07:20 PM

How many of those people waiting are politicians or their buddies? Heck even your favorite hockey player gets an MRI within hours of the most minor injury.

 

No way those who are benefitting want to change a system that works well for them.

You can get an MRI within hours as well, you just have to pay for it, likely the hockey team is paying as well.


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#2209 Barrister

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Posted 22 December 2024 - 07:55 PM

Where can you get one in Victoria if you pay for it. Is iy available on the Island?



#2210 LJ

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Posted 23 December 2024 - 07:43 PM

West Coast Medical Imaging at Uptown mall is where I had mine done, there are probably others.


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#2211 Barrister

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Posted 23 December 2024 - 07:45 PM

That is good to know, I will keep it in mind. Thanks for the useful information and the Best of Christmas to you and yours.


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Posted 24 December 2024 - 04:20 PM

West Coast Medical Imaging at Uptown mall is where I had mine done, there are probably others.

 

Must have been a few years ago. BC banned private MRIs last year.  From what I hear, the private MRIs were cutting into the time that MLAs and their buddies had to wait for their preferred care!

 

https://www.biv.com/...on-mris-8294111

 

West Coast Medical Imaging in Victoria has stopped providing private-pay MRIs after a warning from the Medical Services Commission, which manages the Medical Services Plan for the B.C. government and ensures compliance with the Canada Health Act


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#2213 Barrister

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Posted 24 December 2024 - 04:27 PM

Back to Seattle for me, cost of a ferry trip and a bit of gas. 



#2214 spanky123

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Posted 25 December 2024 - 02:58 PM

^ There are still places that will do it in BC, but the cost starts at about $2,500 now that competition has been removed.



#2215 Barrister

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Posted 25 December 2024 - 04:51 PM

I am not in the usual situation since I have medicare in the US. So I will just continue with Seattle for a number of things as they arise. Not a real solution for most people in Victoria. 



#2216 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 January 2025 - 11:09 AM

Canada has the best healthcare system in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A toddler with a burning fever was forced to wait 14 hours in a Victoria emergency room before seeing a doctor last week.

 

Three days before Christmas, three-year-old Parker Coutts was in desperate need of care.

 

“The fever would go up, go down, then up and then it would go down,” said Parker’s mom Kristi Meredith.

 

After three days weathering a low-grade fever, Meredith says Parker’s fever spiked. With their family doctor’s office closed and urgent care centres full before even opening, Parker’s mother did what so many are forced to do.

 

She took her daughter to the emergency room. Overnight, for 14 hours, they waited to see a doctor.

 

“For 14 hours? That’s outrageous.”

 

Compounding Meredith’s concern, hospital staff told her and her husband for a three-hour window, there was no ER doctor on shift.

Island Health says that’s not true.

 

“A full complement of physicians were on duty providing care at Victoria General Hospital on December 22 and the average time from triage to seeing a physician was 291 minutes,” Island Health spokesperson Andrew Leyne told CHEK News in a statement.

 

Meredith describes a full waiting room at Vic General, many, possibly unhoused needing a place to warm up.

 

CHEK News reached out to the Salvation Army, which is in charge of Victoria’s Emergency Weather Response (EWR). They did not respond to questions about whether an EWR was called thereby opening emergency beds/mats at shelters.

 

 

 

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After 14 hours of waiting, a doctor ended up giving Parker a prescription to treat possible Scarlet fever. And despite multiple assurances that someone would, no one from the hospital has followed up on her tests.

 

“It’s been nine days and I’ve not heard from the hospital yet,” said Meredith. “I called, they said I couldn’t hear the results because I’m not a doctor. So we had to wait for my family doctor to reopen after the holidays.”

 

Island Health did not answer CHEK News’ questions on its hospital follow-up requirements with patients, or whether those protocols were followed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...y-room-1231843/


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#2217 aastra

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Posted 03 January 2025 - 01:07 PM

Canada has always had the best healthcare system in the world. FYI: did you ever notice how the media tends to highlight the issues and/or tragedies right around the holidays?

 

 

 

December 6, 1967
Victoria Daily Times

Revolt of Doctors Feared in Hospital Space Crisis

"We Can't Wait For Five Years"

Victoria can't wait any longer for relief to hospital overcrowding and mammoth waiting lists, a prominent hospital authority said today. (aastra says: for starters, why not try sending the mammoths to a veterinary hospital?)

His (J. Courtney Haddock) comments in an interview followed a report Tuesday night that four persons have died while waiting admission to hospital as urgent cases.

 

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February 23, 2005

Island hospitals face same woes as troubled Fraser health region

Victoria's hospitals are struggling with some of the same crises -- hospital bed shortages, ER overcrowding, a patient who died after being sent home -- that saw the B.C. government demand a quick fix at a Lower Mainland hospital Tuesday.

The eldest brother of Mary Louise Carlos, 19, who died of meningitis just days before Christmas, partially blames hospital overcrowding for his sister's death.

"There should be no such thing as understaffed hospitals, no beds for the sick, and not time to properly help people who are in need of it,"

The Saanich teen was brought to hospital Dec. 21 "with every symptom on the list" but hospital staff sent her home after a four-hour wait for treatment... She was taken back to hospital the same day with more serious symptoms but died about four hours later...

 

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Times-Colonist
January 29, 1986

Doctors launch inquiry into hospital beds

The Victoria Medical Society has struck a committee to investigate the controversy over waiting lists for surgery at the city's two major hospitals.

...there is widespread concern among the group's 450 physicians over discrepancies in statements by hospital administrators and some doctors.

"There is some feeling in our medical society that someone outside the hospital administration should be looking at the situation to determine if there is a real problem there,"

Two Victoria urologists have estimated their patients sometimes wait eight to 10 months for elective surgery.

...head of urology at Victoria General and Royal Jubilee Hospitals said it is common for his patients to wait for surgery until their conditions deteriorate and they are upgraded to urgent cases.

(Victoria Medical Society president) Miller said he doubted anyone was telling lies.

"...there is concern about the discrepancies and we'll be asking our membership about their thoughts on this and how it should be handled."


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#2218 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 04 January 2025 - 06:41 AM

That wait came after an initial three-hour wait in the ER the same morning and 1.5 hours on hold in a failed attempt to get an appointment at an urgent and primary care centre.

 

“Families shouldn’t have to wait 14 hours for care, ­especially when young children are involved,” Meredith wrote in a letter to B.C. Health ­Minister Josie Osborne.

 

Meredith said she and her husband, Joshua Coutts, and their two toddlers rarely need to use emergency services given their “amazing” family doctor, but daughter Parker’s ­illness intensified just three days before Christmas.

 

Meredith was on ­antibiotics for strep throat. Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection ­associated with strep throat. So when Parker’s cold ­symptoms persisted and her fever kept bouncing to about 103.9 C, despite being given fever-reducing medication, her parents became concerned.

 

On the morning of Dec. 22, they took Parker to Victoria General’s ER.

 

She had swollen eyes and face, a body rash and what ­Meredith though was a ­strawberry-looking tongue.

 

The family waited three hours to be told “it’s definitely not” scarlet fever, a throat swab wasn’t needed, but to return in 48 hours if Parker’s symptoms worsened.

 

That night, Parker’s fever spiked to 104.5 and she started vomiting.

 

The couple returned with their children to Victoria ­General at about 8 p.m.

 

After waiting four hours in the general ER, the family asked to move to the ­pediatric ­emergency wait room at about midnight. It appeared to be ­similarly crowded with ­non-pediatric patients, said Meredith.

 

After a total of 14 hours, the toddler was seen, the physician suspected Scarlet fever, performed a swab and prescribed an antibiotic as a precaution.

 
 
 

Island Health said a full complement of physicians were on duty Dec. 22 and the average time from triage to seeing a physician was almost five hours.

 

Between Dec. 22 and Jan. 2, 2025 the average time from triage to seeing a physician at Victoria General Hospital was 259 minutes. On average, 160 people visited the Victoria General Hospital’s ER each day.

 

The Health Ministry said emergency department volumes are high at hospitals throughout B.C. and Canada, and emergency departments are especially busy now during the respiratory illness season.

 

The hospital assured the couple it would call if Parkler’s test came back positive, said Meredith “but no one ever called.

 

“Two days later, we reached out to the hospital, hoping for some answers, but were told we couldn’t access the results without consulting a doctor,” she said.

 

Attempts to access their daughter’s lab results through an appointment with a telehealth doctor and via their children’s Health Gateway accounts also failed to yield results.

 

Again, Meredith was reassured the hospital would contact them if the swab came back positive but another two days passed with no update, she said. Seven days after the couple’s hospital visit, the family’s doctor confirmed the test was positive for Scarlet fever.

 

 

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The health authority’s 2023/2024 target is less than or equal to two per cent and in the same document says its performance on this measure is “significantly outside acceptable range.”

 

That was the case for Maidra Creswell, 83, who said the estimated wait time on the board at Victoria General’s emergency department when she arrived on Dec. 29 was 16 hours and 29 minutes.

 

https://www.timescol...doctor-10031276



#2219 Barrister

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Posted 04 January 2025 - 08:35 AM

Maybe instead of pouring money into every vanity or woke project we should first focus on fixing our medical system. 



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Posted 04 January 2025 - 09:47 AM

Our government spent billions during a health crisis at a time when our healthcare system was at 110% capacity. We were left with nothing after that. Where did that money go to?

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