Who decides...
...who gets priority access to flu vaccinations?
-- TORONTO -- A grief-stricken father whose otherwise healthy teenage son died suddenly from the swine flu struggled to make sense of the tragedy Tuesday and urged other parents to keep a close eye on their ill children.As the father of a 13 year-old boy... this story sends shivers down my spine.
Paul Frustaglio said it took barely more than a day for the H1N1 flu virus to kill Evan - his "best friend" - who turned 13 last month. "He fell so quickly," Frustaglio told The Canadian Press. "I was watching him. I was there when he died."
Evan Frustaglio's death on Monday came on the same day as health authorities across Canada began rolling out a vaccination program against H1N1.Not a priority, huh? I guess that's easy for some government bureaucrat to say. And why did this kid have to go to a production line walk-in clinic? No family doctor? It took us six years to get a family physician here in Hastings County... how is that anywhere near acceptable?
The teen would not have been considered a priority for the flu shot because he wasn't in a high-risk group.
What's Dalton been doing with our tax dollars?
Worse yet... if you live in British Columbia... here's who the government is most worried about.
Seeing a pattern yet?
Thre's a lesson here, folks... friends don't let friends vote liberal.
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Family doctor eh? 6 months, not bad. I had a GP, I wasn't sick, saw him for a physical in 2001 when I was 24. Then in 2006, I was suffering from extreme back-pain, so I called up my GP's office to see him. Day of my appointment, the receptionist calls me and cancels. Turns out, because I didn't see my GP when I wasn't sick, he decided I was no longer his patient.
Off shoot is I then used ER resources for this issue, got a referral to a specialist and got a $10 heel lift to correct a short leg.
Been without a doc since. Maybe Healthcare Connect will help. Sorry about my vent, but I'm wondering where the money goes too.
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kerry... read slower.
it took us SIX YEARS of being wait-listed and aggressively pursuing every lead we came across. THAT'S JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE.
meanwhile premier mcslippery has pissed away a billion dollars on ehealth and another billion on hospital construction over-runs.
again... friends don't let friends vote liberal.
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Sorry, did read too quickly. 6 years is a lot long than my 3, must have been thinking about another subject I was reading.
Either way, that is completely unacceptable. Effectively uninsured comes to mind.
Swine flu, my sweet @ss...
...let's do something about those deadly long weekends at the cottage...
: Let's ask an actual doctor...
...as opposed to CTV's trained TV monkeys...
“This pandemic is a dud,” says Dr. Richard Schabas, the former chief medical officer of health for Ontario.
Who said that? Why....good ol' Neo! You've got some fucking nerve buddy. You wanna blame this on the Liberals? A young boy is dead and you stoop ever lower and use it as a partisan moment. S.C.U.M.B.A.G.
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"marty screams S.C.U.M.B.A.G."
and yet another one of cc's anonymous little errand boys rushes in to defend the franchise.
yup... i wondered how long it would take the benighted rainman of the leftosphere to drop by and share his worldly wisdom.
of course, marty... "we don' need no steenkin' doctors".
what a dope.
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A liberal mp stood up and blamed PMSH for closing x number of hospital beds in Ont and firing 3500 nurses. I think it was this guys brother that did all this. Health is a provincial responsibility.
He is at it again, how many beds, nurses, procedures etc could have been bought and paid for with all those consulting fees at e-health that did nothing.
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well, mary... i've said it before... you get the kind of government you deserve.
maybe, one of these days... the sheeple will wake up.
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Kerry - the exact same thing happened with my doctor. She refused to consider herself as my fam doctor because I had not been to visit her for over 4 years. I ranted about it in emails to each and every doctor in the clinic enquiring if someone else could take me on, and then lo and behold I was back in her files. However, found myself someone else. She might have gleefully plotted to poison me.
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"maria says... She refused to consider herself as my fam doctor because I had not been to visit her for over 4 years."
here's another absurdity... we have my 86 y/o diabetic father-in-law living with us now... when i tried to get our family doctor to take g-dad on... he refused.
so the guy that really, really needs a doc gets royally screwed after a lifetime of hard work and taxes.
thank you dalton mcslippery... yet again.
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Oh FFS...it's not a bureaucrat making the decision, it's doctors and public health scientists who have extensive education and years of experience in their respective fields. They also have more education on the matter than you probably do as well so please don't deride or discount that experience.
You vaccinate those most at risk first because they're the most likely to die from it or get extremely sick. Anyone who disagrees with that method needs to give their head a shake.
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of course, mark... no politically correct jiggery-pokery here.
please, please, please... share that worldly expertise with us all.
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I think it's interesting that they are prioritizing the vaccine on racial grounds - First Nations get it before anyone else.
sigh....you're just not worth it.
Any doctor that practices out of a clinic is in private practice, funded by the public purse. They decide if they want new patients.
Some doctors are hired by hospitals, institutions or WCB, long-term care and they are employees.
Specialists do both. Regardless, getting a doctor to take you on as a patient is a difficult job.
And, in most cases, to see a specialist you must be referred by a private doctor.
That is one reason emergency rooms are so busy, sick people have no place else to go. And, if you go to an emergency room it is an emergency as far as you are concerned.
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"poor little marty whinges... sigh....you're just not worth it."
that's funny... the dozens of angry, unintelligible trolls that you have left here over the last couple of months suggest otherwise.
poor little errand boy.
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