Posted on 07/18/2009 5:17:42 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
My health-care prejudices crumbled not in the classroom but on the way to one. On a subzero Winnipeg morning in 1997, I cut across the hospital emergency room to shave a few minutes off my frigid commute. Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank with sweat and urine. Right then, I began to reconsider everything that I thought I knew about Canadian health care. I soon discovered that the problems went well beyond overcrowded ERs. Patients had to wait for practically any diagnostic test or procedure, such as the man with persistent pain from a hernia operation whom we referred to a pain clinic—with a three-year wait list; or the woman needing a sleep study to diagnose what seemed like sleep apnea, who faced a two-year delay; or the woman with breast cancer who needed to wait four months for radiation therapy, when the standard of care was four weeks.
I decided to write about what I saw. By day, I attended classes and visited patients; at night, I worked on a book. Unfortunately, statistics on Canadian health care’s weaknesses were hard to come by, and even finding people willing to criticize the system was difficult, such was the emotional support that it then enjoyed. One family friend, diagnosed with cancer, was told to wait for potentially lifesaving chemotherapy.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
yes it is a great article
Good posting on your part. However, the contents are so important, more people need the opportunity to read them.
” ...We will go to hell in a hand basket very faster....”
See, it’s already affecting our grammar, which is getting very badder by the minute.
LOL, really
Thanks for sharing.
Reminds me of the motto of the legendary Texas Rangers: "No man in the wrong can stand up against a man in the right who keeps on comin'."
I would change the first "man" to "government" in this case.
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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it!
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You’re very welcome. I hope to see you on other threads.
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bump
“See, it’s already affecting our grammar, which is getting very badder by the minute.”
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It shore do be doin’ dat don’t it?
I feel cursed, I am able at will to lapse into the dialect I learned as a youth complete with “ain’t no such of a thang”, etc. and it seems somehow funny and reassuring at the same time. On the other hand the kind of errors that are so common in current usage set my teeth on edge. Is anyone left who understands proper usage? It is one thing to make errors in conversation but to write them out is quite another. Every passing day it seems that fewer and fewer of those who post on FR make an effort to proofread and some of those who do proofread don’t understand the language in the first place.
I ain’t perfec but I shore do try, I wish some o’ da rest uv um ud make a effort sometime.
If congressmen know they will have to sign up for the same program as us it will never pass.
Rather specious reasoning. Strange that with 48 hours you selected the same 2007 article and posted the same excerpt from it! I guess I should send all my posts to you first so you can determine if the contents are “important” enough for you to duplicate. By all means, never click the search button.
ping
You posted the same excerpt as I did? That is odd.
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