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ER doctor's quick action saved life of 8-year-old girl Girl sent to Detroit
Windsor Star ^ | June 8, 2012 | Monica Wolfson

Posted on 06/10/2012 1:50:46 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian

A critically ill eight-year-old child is alive today because a Windsor emergency room doctor refused to wait for provincial approval to send the child to a Detroit hospital, according to the patient’s mother and hospital doctor.

“She needed emergency surgery and if you don’t operate she was going to die,” said Dr. David Adekoya, Windsor Regional Hospital’s chief of emergency surgery who was at the hospital when the girl was treated. “She needed to be at a facility within an hour. We needed to make a decision and not wait around.”

.... After the transfer to Detroit was arranged, CritiCall approved it and all medical bills were paid for by the province, according to Mary’s mother and Musyj. A team from Detroit arrived in Windsor with a nurse, respiratory therapist and two paramedics, Mary’s mom said. Mary was diagnosed in Detroit with having multiple aneurysms clustered in her brain.

n the past year, Windsor Regional sent 52 patients to Michigan hospitals, while Hotel-Dieu sent 47 to Detroit area hospitals.

(Excerpt) Read more at windsorstar.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: government; healthcare; medicine; socialized
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To: jocon307

“What struck me is that even in on of our most messed up cities, you can still get world class health care.”

And probably robbed/raped/murdered in the hospital parking lot.


81 posted on 02/17/2014 3:54:34 PM PST by PLMerite
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To: PLMerite

WOW, that article was from a long time ago, you have been deep in the archives.


82 posted on 02/17/2014 4:47:47 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Scoutmaster

You do have John sKerry’s style down pat.


83 posted on 02/17/2014 5:31:07 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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