[lastchance]

“A surgeon at Winnipeg’s 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.”

O.K, I’ll ask, Why was a different specialist needed to stitch the wound? It can’t be because the surgeon was unqualified. It must be due to some sort of rule that breaks down what procedures may be performed under certain licenses that every procedure requires multiple specialists.

Next question, Why didn’t the patient try to find alternate transportation? She probably had a some idea of how likely it was that the plans to bring her back to the original hospital might go tails up.

The same type of situation could happen in the U.S. only difference is that a non-Medicaid patient here would not think any of it was “free”.

[jmacusa]

In the hospital I worked in ER nurses and ‘’techs’’ (’’nurses aides’’) routinely stitched wounds. No trick to it really if you're trained.

[bobcat62]

Take it one step further: Has Canada imported specialists from South Asia?