2/24/2005 06:45:00 AM|||Toni|||Craig Westover

Here's a really horrendous example of what you get with nationalized health care. I have a friend and neighbor who has lived in the US for over 40 years but has never become an American citizen and refuses to acknowledge the defects inherent in a socialized country of which Canada has become. This is a tragic story that need not have happened and guess what? They can't sue or litigate anyone, why? Because it's socialized health care.

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In Emergency, we were told no MRI's were performed on Christmas Day. Ever. With great family pressure, a MRI was performed on Boxing Day. The diagnosis: No tumour. "Sphenoid and left ethmoid sinus disease." The diagnosis, even to laymen, was not logical.

A copy of the MRI was obtained and my radiologist son from Minneapolis flew in. While I set the table for dinner, he sat at a computer table reading the fateful MRI. With sadness, he informed us his brother's problem was not a sinus infection. It was a baseball-size tumour in the nasopharyngeal area, extending back to his C1 vertebra and eating into his skull. No wonder he had pain. With dread, it fell to one brother to inform the other he had advanced cancer.

Just remember this story the next time someone tries to buffalo you with a Hillarycare type healthcare system!|||110920399230461616|||Canadian health care