Posted on 03/22/2009 8:24:21 AM PDT by Nachum
Did the fact that Canada has a socialist, government-run healthcare system --similar to the kind that President Obama wants to ram down the throats of Americans-- kill acclaimed actress Natasha Richardson?
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I thought exactly the same thing. She would have had a chance in America with the latest technology.
Yes - There was no budget for an airlift helicopter. It took over 2 hours to get her to the hospital after she denied treatment.
My understanding is she refused treatment twice (both in the form of an ambulance ride to the hospital at the time of the incident, and later in the day). Once she started having the headaches, it was likely too late. It would not have mattered whether she was in Canada or the United States.
Ummm, Richardson herself refused treatment more than once.
That’s why they rushed her to the best NY Hospital. We don’t know maybe it was her time but she did not want treatment. Was she scared to go into a Canadian hospital? God bless her soul in heaven.
PRINCESS DIANA died because of Britain's Health Care System. Had the accident happened in the USofA, she'd have lived because OUR Paramedics don't make calls to the Queen/Prime Minister (or here the President) to find out what to do. Our Paramedics would have triaged her and had her in a helicopter on her way to the best hospital within 20 minutes, tops. Probably less than that. Princess Diana bled out while awaiting medical attention. In other words, Princess Diana WAS murdered by the British Health Care System AND the Royal Family.
She also refused a helmut. Sonny Bono refused to wear a helmut because
he thought it looked dumb. I can understand why people don’t like them
but they do help of you have a bad spill. Also, the instructors did
try and make her get medical help and she refused. People are
often embarrassed to make a big deal out of a fall.
Diana died in France.
Same kind of thing happens here. The moral of the story is to treat every head injury seriously.
I imagine her death might spur the start of a medivac helo in La Belle Province. Quebec is larger in land area than any US state.
Non! She died in Paris not London. She died because of France's health care system. In the US, parametics would have rushed her to an emergency room. In France they have interns in each ambulance, so they tried to stabilize her at the scene rather than rush her to the hospital.
“She also refused a helmut.”
Gott in Himmel!
Sorry.
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Oh please. Read up on what happened . You don't know what you're talking about.
I must have helmut Kohl on the brain!
“Ummm, Richardson herself refused treatment more than once.”
I think the implication is that even if she’d gone to the nearest hospital which had no neurosurgeon, she couldn’t have been transported via ambulance to a proper facility soon enough to save her.
Of course, this could be wrong and since she refused treatment initially we’ll never know. The “golden hour” would almost certainly have been lost in transportation time.
But Princess Di, died in an automobile accident in Paris.
What does the British Health Service have to do with that?
No, they took her to Lennox Hill Hospital. It's a good, even great hospital, but it's not known for it's neorological department - where as there are 2 or three other Manhattan hospitals that have arguably the best brain surgeons in the world.
They took her to Lennox because she was brain dead long before she left probably either hospital in Montreal. They took her to Lennox because she was surely going to die and Lennox is in the more convenient Manhattan neighborhood for the family.
For conservatives to blame Canada's system is the equivalent of Liberals blaming everything on Bush.
Dopey.
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