Posted on 06/08/2026 12:24:40 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Roseanne Milburn, 61, of Winnipeg, had a routine procedure turn into an amputation โ not because the surgery failed, but because Canadaโs government-run system couldnโt find her a bed.
A surgeon at Winnipegโs Health Sciences Centre removed dead tissue from her knee, then sent her to Concordia Hospital with the plan to bring her back that same day so a specialist could stitch the wound (CBC News). She was never brought back.
There was no bed at HSC. So she sat at Concordia with an ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ, waiting for the system to make room.
As the video narrator put it: โ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข. ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ข, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ณ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ-๐ง๐ญ๐ถ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ฅ-๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ. ๐๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข.โ By the time a bed opened, the wound had rotted past saving. The doctors told her the leg couldnโt be salvaged. On a Friday in December, Roseanne Milburn lost her ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ โ over a missing hospital bed. This is not a freak accident. It is the predictable output of a system that rations care by making people wait.
In 2025, the median Canadian waited ๐๐.๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ from a GP referral to actual treatment (Fraser Institute). For orthopedic surgery โ the exact category Milburn needed โ the median wait is ๐๐.๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ. Nearly a full year. By design.
That is 222 percent longer than the 9.3-week wait Canadians faced in 1993 (Fraser Institute). The system isnโt getting better. Itโs getting slower โ and the waiting list itself becomes the rationing mechanism. Defenders call it โ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆโ. It is not free. Roseanne Milburn paid for it. She paid with her leg. Every politician selling โ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ญ๐ญโ is selling this โ the bed that never opens, the specialist who never comes, the wound that turns black while a bureaucrat shuffles a list.
๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ก๐๐.
Very likely. They might also have a certain number of openings in med schools for certain foreigners.
My mom used to stitch wounds when she was a medical assistant when Hector was a pup. I think this must have been more than a typical post surgery wound otherwise I don’t see why a specialist was required.
If the procedure was a knee replacement it takes several layers of stitching.
Isnโt free wonderful? Some years back, I heard that there were more MRI machines in the Dallas Fort Worth metromess than there was in Canada.
Yep. And wasnโt suicided.
As far as I'm concerned, modern Canada _is_ a 3rd World country. With the worldview, education, governance, economic dysfunction, and welfare dependencies that go with that.
Sounds like it would worth seeing a medical school and have them take a shot at it?.
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