MDs forced abroad for scanner training [Canada]

globeand mail.com ^ | 1/19/07 | Lisa Priest

[melt]

The use of crucial cancer-detecting PET machines is so restricted in Ontario that one university must send its medical residents to the United States and elsewhere for training.

The low number of cancer patients eligible for PET screening means University of Western Ontario residents cannot obtain the experience they require. St. Joseph's Health Care in London scans as few as four patients a week, sometimes none. The rest of the time it experiments on laboratory-bred dogs and pigs.

[melt]

Let's see. Canadian patients are waiting and dying, as government-run PET scans are used for animals. Gives new meaning to the term "PET" scan.

Creepy.

[socialismisinsidious]

Socialized medicine...give the government control and end up with controls that result in shortages and poor quality. Coming soon to a state near you.

[heartwood]

How on earth do they pay for this PET scanner if they don't use it? was my first thought.

Second thought - government funded health care - gov't pays for one so it's keeping up with the rest of the world. But they don't open up the categories of which patients can be scanned because then they might have to buy a second or third.

Mrs VS

[originalbuckeye]

Please, God, stop the Dems from enacting Socialist Medicine here. Our quality of care will plummet.

[melt]

Coming soon to a state near you

Yes. I guess I'll have to charge Arnold with Schwarze'negligence'. : (

[chadwimc]

You should see all the Canadian cars in Cleveland. They're almost all exclusively here for the Cleveland Clinic and other medical facilities...

[Polybius]

Please, God, stop the Dems from enacting Socialist Medicine here. Our quality of care will plummet.

Coño!! ....... NOW you tell me!

[yankeedame]

But they don't open up the categories of which patients can be scanned because then they might have to buy a second or third.

That, or so they don't get socked with charages of "discrimination". For or against who, where, what, and when wouldn't matter. The gloves are off when it comes to "rights" to latch on to "free" medicial care.

[Kimmers]

Cute, the boys are dressed alike.

[originalbuckeye]

My son is now nearly 20. When he was in grade school, he used to come home and whine to me about his 'rights'. (He had obviously learned this in school). I told him that he had the 'right' to be fed, the 'right' to be clothed, the 'right' to be sheltered, the 'right' to be educated to age 18 and the 'right' to be loved. That was exactly where his 'rights' stopped. He grew up to be a conservative, in school at the Naval Academy, and knowing that he has a country to serve, for all that it has offered him. I wish all the lefties had such a conscience.

[originalbuckeye]

I'm sure. When I worked in Boston, I knew several Canadian doctors in the Resident program who couldn't wait to find a way to become permanent residents here. I'm not surprised to find that the patients want to come here, too.