The health ministry has approved a plan that front-line doctors fear will create an even deeper health care crisis: outsourcing hundreds of allogeneic transplants to three American centres at a cost of more than $100 million (U.S.). So far, the program has proved a hard sell. Only 19 of 202 patients approved for transplants to date in Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit have agreed to go.Don't look at me... I didn't vote for them.
“If there is that money, why can’t we spend it to fix our system?” asks Dr. Richard Wells, a clinician-scientist at Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre. “Is that not the obvious thing?”
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"I hear they're dumping big bucks into palliative care and assisted suicide programs. - Tells ya something."As anyone who has waited in a hospital emergency room for 7 hours can tell you... we're all doomed.