I read where they turned away the first ambulance that showed up ....
Socialized medicine+a petty bureaucrat,not a doctor or even a paramedic, determines your level of medical care.
True.
But she walked into the hospital conscience complaining of a headache. You would think that triage would put the fall and headache and then losing conscientious together and do an MRI. Well that's if it had one and if the staff knew how to use it..
By the time I got notified and got to the hospital, he was bloody but was sitting up talking, knew who I was and didn't have a broken bone in his body. They kept him for observation, and within a couple of hours he was semi conscious and unable to remember much of anything. He had a hematoma on the right side of his brain. The difference is his was not growing,or being fed as the dr put it, but another difference is the amount of force they say he absorbed. They estimated his speed at 70mph. No one understands how he got out of the car w/no broken bones and a small cut on his forehead. They don't see the hematoma which is causing him horrific headaches.
She had a tumble, felt fine right after so they waved off the ambulance call. Her hematoma obviously continued to grow.
God is sovereign. He knows the day of our birth and the day of our passing. I pray she was ready for hers, my husband was, but it wasn't his day.
“I read where they turned away the first ambulance that showed up ....”
True, she further sealed her own fate. But the gist of the article is that, with no neurosergeon at the nearest hosptital (and maybe no MRI) and no helicopter to get her to one, it didn’t matter what she did or did not do.
Sad as it is to say, if her case exposes the Canadian health care system for what it is and keeps it from coming to the United States, maybe she will not have died in vain.