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Quebec Man Dies After He Forgets Health Card and Is Forced to Return Home
Canoe ^
| April 23, 2004
| The Canadian Press
Posted on 04/23/2004 8:48:34 PM PDT by quidnunc
Montreal – A 21-year-old man died of appendicitis after he was refused treatment at an emergency clinic because he didn't have his provincial health card with him.
Gerald Augustin complained of stomach pains on Thursday but the receptionist at the St-Andre medical centre told him he had to return home to get his health card. He didn't make it back to the clinic in Montreal's east end.
About four hours later, a friend alerted police and called an ambulance for the man, who had a fatal attack of appendicitis in his apartment. He was pronounced dead in hospital.
Rouslene Augustin, administrator at the St-Andre clinic, said the man didn't appear to have any urgent symptoms when he came to the clinic.
"If this guy was an emergency case, we would accept him if he had his card or not," she said.
"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules."
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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: canuckistan; canucknuts; healhcare; socializedmedicine
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posted on
04/23/2004 8:48:35 PM PDT
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
And who are these morons that argue for "single payer" healthcare?
To: quidnunc
My, my. It seems that nationalized health insurance isn't a panacea after all. Who woulda thunk it?
3
posted on
04/23/2004 8:51:24 PM PDT
by
neutrino
(Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson.)
To: quidnunc
health card?? whats up with that?? Why would a country with FREE healthcare paid for by government for ALL need health cards????
Makes no sense....
Socialism... fails every time.
4
posted on
04/23/2004 8:52:42 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John F Kerry; Repeat to thyself often: The Mississippi is not the Mekong Delta)
To: quidnunc
"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules." Canadians are so funny!
(steely)
To: quidnunc
Maybe the Canadians will use this as an excuse to require all their health care recipients to get microchip IDs injected under their skin?
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posted on
04/23/2004 8:53:24 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(LESS government please, NOT more.)
To: quidnunc
Probably only spoke English also and wasn't sure of the french instructions.
7
posted on
04/23/2004 8:53:34 PM PDT
by
dts32041
("Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity" George W Bush 28 Jan 2003)
To: quidnunc
Rouslene Augustin, administrator at the St-Andre clinic, said the man didn't appear to have any urgent symptoms when he came to the clinic.Probable because his appendix had already ruptured!
This is the wonderful health care system that Hitlery wants to shove down our throats.
The major problem with liberalism is that they really believe that if EVERYBODY had sh#tty healthcare we would be better off than if most have good to great and a few have poor or none healthcare.
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posted on
04/23/2004 8:54:30 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: quidnunc
Socialism works! Ask any Indians!
To: quidnunc
Posted by
Lancey Howard On News/Activism
11/20/2003 3:15:45 AM EST with 3 comments
The New York Post ^ | 11-19-2003 | Richard Johnson
November 19, 2003 -- DAN Aykroyd is no fan of the bureaucratic bungling and cut-rate care of socialized medicine. "One place you don't want to get sick is Quebec," the Canadian actor advised us after a screening of Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions.
"It's all socialized. Believe me, you don't want to go to a hospital there."
To: quidnunc
If everyone is covered, why do they need to show cards?
To: quidnunc
"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules."
Subhuman Government-drone Quote of the Week
To: Lancey Howard
Canadian actors come to the US for reasons.
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posted on
04/23/2004 8:56:22 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John F Kerry; Repeat to thyself often: The Mississippi is not the Mekong Delta)
To: Libertina
exactly. If its open to all for 'free'... why do people need to show a card???
14
posted on
04/23/2004 8:57:05 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John F Kerry; Repeat to thyself often: The Mississippi is not the Mekong Delta)
To: Libertina
"I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the clinic, we just followed the rules." Subhuman Government-drone Quote of the Week
Will that fit in as your tagline?? =o)
15
posted on
04/23/2004 8:57:48 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John F Kerry; Repeat to thyself often: The Mississippi is not the Mekong Delta)
To: quidnunc
"If this guy was an emergency case, we would accept him if he had his card or not," she said.
I guess all the competent doctors have headed south, otherwise they could have diagnosed his emergency.
16
posted on
04/23/2004 8:58:46 PM PDT
by
ampat
(to)
To: quidnunc
Oddly enough, I can imagine this happening at one of America's lesser socialized medicine parlors, perhaps an ER in a delapidated inter-city neighborhood.
Tragic.
17
posted on
04/23/2004 9:00:19 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: ampat
"If this guy was an emergency case, we would accept him if he had his card or not," she said.Then why do they need a stupid card??
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posted on
04/23/2004 9:00:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John F Kerry; Repeat to thyself often: The Mississippi is not the Mekong Delta)
To: GeronL
LOL I can try ;) Conked out afer Subhuman, LOL
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posted on
04/23/2004 9:01:06 PM PDT
by
Libertina
("I don't see what we did wrong. I'm not defending the mistake, we just followed the rules.")
To: quidnunc
The victim was named Gerald Augustin.
The bureaucrat who turned him away was named Rouslene Augustin.
Not his father or his uncle, I hope. But I wouldn't put it past a French bureaucrat.
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posted on
04/23/2004 9:01:09 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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