Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson on Canadian healthcare:
A friend’s 13-year-old son tripped while climbing off a speedboat and ripped his leg open. Things started well. The ambulance arrived promptly, the wound was bandaged and off he went in a big, exciting van.
It didn’t seem desperately busy. One woman had lost her face somehow — probably a bear attack — and one kid appeared to have taken rather too much ecstasy, but there were no more than a dozen people in the waiting room. And no one was gouting arterial blood all over the walls.
So the kid wasn't spouting (gouting?) blood either........
I went back to the boy’s cubicle, which he was sharing with a young Muslim couple.
- Really? So which is it "But there were no more than a dozen people in the waiting room" or was it busy. I have never seen anyone share a cubicle in ER
A doctor came in and said to them: “You’ve had a miscarriage,” and then turned to go. Understandably, the poor girl was very upset and asked if the doctor was sure.
Really. How you knew there were muslim vs another ethnicity is interesting but no Doctor would discuss this in front of someone else......
“At midnight, a young man who had been brought up on a diet of American music, American movies and very obviously American food, arrived to say, in French, that the doctors were changing shift and a new one would be along as soon as possible.
As an English Pig you don't understand Quebec at all. Chances are his English is worse than yours.....
This is because the hospital had no chairs for relatives and friends. It’s not a lack of funds, plainly. Because they had enough money to paint a yellow line on the road nine yards from the front door, beyond which you were able to smoke.
And they also had the cash to employ an army of people to slam the door in your face if you poked your head into the inner sanctum to ask how much longer the wait might be. Sixteen hours is apparently the norm. Unless you want a scan. Then it’s 22 months.
At about 1.30am a doctor arrived. Boy, he was a piece of work. He couldn’t have been more rude if I’d been General Wolfe. He removed the bandages like they were the packaging on a disposable razor, looked at the wound, which was horrific, and said to my friend: “Is it cash or credit card?”
- What Doctor in Canada would ask that? Canadian Doctors get paid by the hospital via the govt., and the 'system' collects the money from outsiders. And they would have been told upfront when asked for his Healthcard, which he would not have had, that payment would have to be made.......
This seemed odd in a country with no private care, but it turns out they charge non-Canadians precisely what they would charge the government if the patient were Céline Dion. The bill was C$300 (about £170).
Celine Dion likely has Quebec Healthcare........
Seven hours after the accident, in a country widely touted to be the safest and best in the world,
What does Canada being the safest and best in the world have to do with this case....?
Now, I appreciate that any doctor who ends up working the night shift at a provincial hospital in Nowheresville
Tell your friend not to holiday in Nowhereville and all will be well.......
But I can say this. If private treatment had been allowed, my friend would have paid for it. He would have received better service and in doing so, allowed Dr Useless to get to the woman with no face or ecstasy boy more quickly.
So the Doctor looked after a cut on a leg that was not gushing out instead of the woman with no face.......?
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The link to the Times is NFG but I'm calling BS on this. I don't know who this guy is or his TV show but I'm thinking someone wanted to make him look like a looser and put this story out...........