Canada Ping!
Posted on 01/16/2015 4:07:10 PM PST by george76
incidents point to dangerous breakdowns in the Canadian health-care system. But don’t expect to find any public record of either apparent blunder — or of thousands of similarly harmful and sometimes deadly mistakes that occur in facilities across the country each year.
Most instances of the system hurting rather than healing patients, in fact, are not even reported by staff internally, a National Post investigation has documented.
Research suggests that about 70,000 patients a year experience preventable, serious injury as a result of treatments. More shocking, a landmark study published a decade ago estimated that as many as 23,000 Canadian adults die annually because of preventable “adverse events” in acute-care hospitals alone.
The rate of errors may be even higher today, some evidence suggests, despite the millions of dollars spent on much-touted patient-safety efforts.
Yet a tiny fraction of those cases are publicly acknowledged and usually only in the form of antiseptic statistics. For most serious treatment gaffes, not even the sparsest of details is revealed, making the vast problem all but invisible.
The Post has also learned there is no routine, public documentation of one common source of health-care harm — malfunctioning medical devices linked to dozens of deaths and hundreds of serious injuries every year.
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Previews of current and coming attractions of government-run medical care. Nuke it!
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We ain’t crying. Whole lot of lyin’ going on...
“More shocking, a landmark study published a decade ago estimated that as many as 23,000 Canadian adults die annually because of preventable ‘adverse events’ in acute-care hospitals alone.”
I’ve read that a comparable statistic in the US is on the order of 90,000 folks per year. That means that Canada, with 1/10th our population has fully 1/4 of the number of iatrogenic deaths, or, in other words, about 2.5 times the number of such deaths as the US. Wow.
I’d bet any country with socialized medicine, you pull back the rug and you’ll find these same exact problems. I’d bet the democrats want it here to cut costs, it’ll give them more money to steal in the long run...
Addenda; Look at hey denied medical caretwhat the democrats did to the Veteran’s Association, they denied Vets medical care to get bonuses! They should be hunted down, beat to within an inch and thrown in solitary for the duration of their natural lives. They’re lucky I’m not in charge.
The unhinged Canadians on the feedback trying to justify their incompetent system are a hoot.
Hospitals are dangerous places to be.
My Albertan talk about how substandard the care is not to mention how much he pays in taxes for this “free” health care. On vacation in Ireland years ago, the guide and driver said their socialized health care was a crock and those who could bought private care insurance. I’m not sure how anyone can think single payer is a good thing.
Steven Crowder checks out the Canadian health care system!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdARfegZDns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw
Steven Crowder talks Socialized Obamacare with Neil Cavuto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQx_Jt_U5h0
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One reason it takes a while for problems like this to come to light is that not everyone uses medical services with high frequency. But sooner or later most people do. A few problems here and there can be overlooked or discounted when they don’t happen to you or a loved one. Eventually it reaches a tipping point where everyone has had a bad experience or knows someone who has. By then, it becomes difficult to dismantle the system. But it CAN be done. We need to keep working in the US to dismantle the evil of 0vomitcare until the job is done.
Canada Ping!
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