You can't wait 16 hours Quebec doctor says patient died after lengthy ER wait

Seeing multiple articles about Montreal Hospitals' wait times? Is this no big deal ?

Notice in the second article it says something about 3000 plus Health Care workers being out and it was COVID-related ?

What's up Canada...

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A Quebec doctor is sounding the alarm on the "dangerous" wait times plaguing hospital emergency rooms after he said he had a patient die in front of him after the man waited 16 hours to receive urgent care.

Dr. Sébastien Marin is an emergency room doctor at Barrie Memorial Hospital in Ormstown, Que., about 65 kilometres southwest of Montreal.

He said the man in his 70s had suffered an aneurysm and died from a ruptured aorta within minutes of arriving at his hospital. The patient had initially waited 16 hours in another hospital but left after not being able to see a doctor, Marin said.

"Honestly, when we have a patient who walks in alive and just dies in front of us, it's always frustrating when we can't do anything. But it's even more frustrating when we know that the patient did the right thing. He tried to get care somewhere and he just didn't get it," Dr. Marin told CTV News on Monday.

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Emergency rooms across Montreal were overcrowded throughout the heights of the pandemic, and after three years doctors say the ailing health-care system is not improving.

In fact, it's getting worse.

"We have to build back capacity," said health care advocate Dr. Paul Saba. "There is no capacity in the system. In fact, we've reduced it so there's less than."

Almost every ER in Montreal is overcrowded. As of Tuesday morning, the Royal Victoria Hospital was at more than double capacity (230 per cent), and Verdun and LaSalle hospitals were at around 165 per cent.

The levels are extra concerning as concerns about rising COVID-19 hospitalizations and the upcoming flu season.

"This kind of unit is pushed to the limit, [and], of course, you're going to have mistakes, you're going to have chaos," said patients rights advocate Paul Brunet.

Health experts say the prolonged pressure from COVID-19 surgery backlogs and staffing shortages are taking their toll.

As of Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said there were 3,865 health-care workers absent for COVID-19-related reasons across the province.

In addition, many people in the ER are also waiting for space to free up in long-term care.

Saba, a family physician and board of physicians president at Lachine Hospital, said the lack of family doctors is also adding pressure.

Those clot shots are doing wonders.

Entire Canadian system is collapsing.

a reply to: putnam6

Socialized medicine.

a reply to: putnam6

New Zealand is the same. It really is getting worse. I think it might be nearing collapse. They were heavily vaxed to keep their jobs. Many just left rather than take it. Those that didn't take it are not getting reemployed and those working have been burning out. The spin is ridiculous. The denial is palpable.

You can't wait 16 hours Quebec doctor says patient died after lengthy ER wait

It's going to get a whole lot worse when their hiring is dependent upon using the right pronouns,being the right gender,being the right race, having the right politics-All things woke.

It isn't just medicine either. This is everywhere now in every country.

originally posted by: Antisocialist
a reply to: putnam6

Socialized medicine.

We have socialize medical care here. We also have private insurance also. A country should have bought.
It works fine most of the time, but l live in a medical university town.

originally posted by: Antisocialist
a reply to: putnam6

Socialized medicine.

This, for sure, is a huge part of it.


In the US health care system you get seen pretty quickly, and *then* neglected.

Couple years back my insides exploded and I took a ride in on the weewoo wagon, they saw to putting me in a bed with drugs right away. Maybe four hours later a doctor came and decided I had to go in for surgery right away.
Saved my life for sure, only $768,000 but insurance picked up most of the tab.

Scams on scams, but it did technically work.

originally posted by: putnam6
What's up Canada...

The MANDATORY vaccination policies.

That's what's up.....

Can't say I didn't mention a thing or two about this to my fellow Canucks......

SMH like no one seen this coming...

Now everyone is all like:

Derp Derp Derp

Pissed at my government and the clinically stupid Lefties that support them.

a reply to: putnam6

Metro Detroit: guaranteed 30 mins or less to be see.

Henry Ford Health
Beaumont Heath
U of M Med Center
etc,etc,etc

a reply to: musicismagic

I believe we are facing the worst with this pandemia now. I also live in medical university town and this hospital district is stagnant atm. No beds are left and patients are not moving out either ( maybe just a tad ). Many has been sent home for field nurses and to relatives care. Just awful situation.
In here only over 60 years old are being vaccinated anymore and those who have such a ilnesses that they are in highest risk group. Even as a nurse no covid vaccines anymore to us either.

Last time I went to the ER I feared I had been chemically poisoned(I work with a wide range of substances for my various jobs) I had puked and shaked and sweated a whole day before deciding maybe it wasn’t just the flu. I went in still shaking still sweating I couldn’t hold anything down.

Took 12 hours to see someone. They said well mr athetos you can’t have lead poisoning because it is usually a slow build up to toxic levels and then there really isn’t much to be done. I said what I don’t think I have lead poisoning I have some other possible chemical poisoning not heavy mental poisoning. They assured me I was fine it was flu and sent me home without doing a single test on me just a doctor who looked me up and down and asked xyz. I went home made a homemade carbon slurry from some activated charcoal and went to bed.

My son has been been waiting for a eye procedure from the time he was born. He is 18 months now and is expected to get the surgery done by the time he is 3. It’s not anything crazy just a blocked tear duct that needs to be opened but he suffers and everything thinks he has pink eye all the time because of his dry eye. I love my free healthcare I can never use. I don’t even have a family doctor myself and haven’t had one in years still on a waiting list.

The last time I was examined myself was a few years back my shoulder grinds badly and pops out and I wanted it to get looked at. Doctor said just take pain killers. I told him I don’t want pain killers I am a recovered addict I would like a fixed shoulder or at least pointed in the direction of some physiotherapy. Again I get stone walled all the doctor does is type he didn’t put put a hand on me or even feel my shoulder grind nothing.

He looks up from typing come back in 8 weeks if it still bothers you. God damn it took months to get in and my shoulders been messed for years and I gotta come back in 8 weeks? Anyway a hack to say the least.

a reply to: putnam6

I have said it before, and I'll say it again: more people will die as a result of COVID who don't even have it than will die from COVID itself.

But it's OK... I'm sure Pfizer got paid.

TheRedneck

originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: putnam6

Metro Detroit: guaranteed 30 mins or less to be seen.

Henry Ford Health
Beaumont Heath
U of M Med Center
etc,etc,etc

I'm just asking questions, sometimes when I'm up overnight you can find all kinds of stuff on Reddit that makes me wonder.

Just search

"surge in pediatric patients with respiratory illnesses is overwhelming hospitals" on Google

Georgia hospitals are at the low 80% so they are fine too but

Check the link read the article and let me know what you think here.

Seeing suggestions of wearing masks again, why is it hitting our children so hard and not the adults?



Now that many folks are no longer wearing face masks or maintaining social distancing, respiratory infections are on the rise. That’s led to a surge in kids getting hospitalized with these illnesses. After two years of being held in check due to Covid-19 precautions, respiratory viruses like the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the influenza virus, and, of course, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are seeing a lot clearer lanes to your and your kids’ respiratory tracts and lungs.

The RSV and flu viruses are two or more reasons to maintain Covid-19 precautions in the coming months. There are vaccines to help protect you and your kids against Covid-19 and influenza. However, there presently no RSV vaccine. That’s why you should continue to wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. Lather up with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, which is about how long it takes to get through the first chorus of the DiVinyls song, “I Touch Myself.” Speaking of touching yourself, stop touching your gigantic face no matter how much of a gravitational pull it has on your fingers and hands. Try to social distance as much as you can. Keep surfaces clean and disinfected, including your life-sized Harry Styles statue and the bowl that you are using to serve it salad dressing. Stay home when you are sick in any way.

A tweet from Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, the Director of the CDC, did emphasize some of these respiratory illness precaution measures. But interestingly Walensky did not mention face mask or good air filtration as Kimberly Prather, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICECCI) and Distinguished Professor at the University of California-San Diego


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Now that many folks are no longer wearing face masks or maintaining social distancing, respiratory infections are on the rise. That’s led to a surge in kids getting hospitalized with these illnesses. After two years of being held in check due to Covid-19 precautions, respiratory viruses like the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the influenza virus, and, of course, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are seeing a lot clearer lanes to your and your kids’ respiratory tracts and lungs.

The RSV and flu viruses are two or more reasons to maintain Covid-19 precautions in the coming months. There are vaccines to help protect you and your kids against Covid-19 and influenza. However, there presently no RSV vaccine. That’s why you should continue to wash your hands thoroughly and frequently. Lather up with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, which is about how long it takes to get through the first chorus of the DiVinyls song, “I Touch Myself.” Speaking of touching yourself, stop touching your gigantic face no matter how much of a gravitational pull it has on your fingers and hands. Try to social distance as much as you can. Keep surfaces clean and disinfected, including your life-sized Harry Styles statue and the bowl that you are using to serve it salad dressing. Stay home when you are sick in any way.

A tweet from Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, the Director of the CDC, did emphasize some of these respiratory illness precaution measures. But interestingly Walensky did not mention face mask or good air filtration as Kimberly Prather, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICECCI) and Distinguished Professor at the University of California-San Diego

[url]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hospitals-overwhelmed-rsv-pediactric-patients-respiratory-virus/

Hospitals in 33 states are seeing a dramatic rise in children suffering from the respiratory virus called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Cases have more than doubled in 25 states, putting a strain on hospitals — with some facilities so overwhelmed, they're running out of beds.

At Connecticut Children's hospital, doctors said they're slammed with a surge in RSV cases. Dr. John Brancato told CBS News that every inch of the emergency room is filled, and the hospital is considering putting a tent on the front lawn to handle the overflow.

The state of Connecticut is even thinking of bringing in the National Guard.

"We're having patients in hall beds," Brancato said. "We're using our orthopedic room. We're using other treatment rooms as much as possible to take care of everybody."

RSV cases typically surge from December to February, but this month, the children's hospital has more RSV cases than any other respiratory illness, including COVID-19.

Further south, almost half of the ICU beds at Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, are filled with RSV patients.

"It's going to be a rough winter," Dr. Daniel Guzman, who works at the hospital, told CBS News. "I mean, we're already seeing our numbers spike over the last few weeks with over 550 E.R. visits per day."

Parents Zoe and Jeff Green said their 4-month-old daughter, Lindy, is in the ICU with RSV. They took her to an urgent care clinic because they were concerned that she had more than just a common cold.

RSV symptoms are similar to a cold, but doctors said parents should watch for signs of respiratory stress, if their child's nostrils are flaring while breathing, or if their skin is pulling towards their ribs.

Doctors are also expecting an active flu season. They're asking people to get their flu shots now — while it won't prevent you from getting the flu, it could make your symptoms mild enough where you wouldn't need to go to the emergency room.

originally posted by: Antisocialist
a reply to: putnam6

Socialized medicine.

Socialized medicine works very well until government leaders deem personal care workers, nurses and other essential workers as not valuable by creating a bill that effectively keeps them in poverty mode.

originally posted by: TheRedneck
I have said it before, and I'll say it again: more people will die as a result of COVID who don't even have it than will die from COVID itself.

But it's OK... I'm sure Pfizer got paid.

TheRedneck

This is all part of the plan and guaranteed by the mis-use of the PCR tests spun up to a ridiculously high cycle threshold.

a reply to: v1rtu0s0

Shhh! You're not supposed to tell people that a listerine-covered rock will test positive if enough PCR cycles are used!

What are you, some kind of democracy-hating nationalist alt-right conspiracy Nazi?

TheRedneck