[2] Все СМИ в Канаде полностью контролируются правительством до такой степени, что мне не удалось найти не единого слова о бездомном, о чьей душераздирающей судьбе мы, телеаудитория, узнали из интервью. А вообще смерть в приёмном покое "Скорой помощи" стала утвердившейся реальностью.

"Как сообщает агентство Canadien Press, и CTV (вторник, 2008-09-23), "бездомный 34 часа ждал осмотра в отделении "Скорой помощи", и в конечном счете умер, не дождавшись. CTV Winnipeg сообщает, что его критическое состояние наступило в отделении "Скорой помощи" в Центре Наук Здоровья в пятницу, в полдень, а обнаружил его там же без сознания персонал больницы утром в воскресенье".

Обратим внимание на этот термин "персонал обнаружил": как будто действие проиходило не в зале "Скорой помощи", а на Северном Полюсе, в пустыне или в горах.

Уже в этом одном только выражении отражается то, что само канадское общество неизлечимо больно, и, если политическая "скорая помощь" не будет вовремя оказана, сама страна отбросит копыта.

Сообщения и Canadien Press и CTV вызывают глубокую озабоченность, потому что СМИ пытаются скрыть, что когда этот несчастный был "обнаружен", он был уже мертв в течение какого-то времени.

Тина Омоерах из Winnipeg'a написала в обсуждениях на странице CTV, что она сама была в Health Sciences Centre, ожидая своей участи, и видела жертву в инвалидном кресле, когда этот человек был всё ещё жив, за 4 сидения от себя. Она пишет: "Я не знаю, почему медики не отреагировали на беспокойство пары, которая сказала (о бездомном инвалиде) 3-м врачам и охраннику (...)."

Врачи и медицинские сёстры с мышлением уголовников в Виннипеге и по всей Канаде утверждают, что этот человек умер потому, что "не настаивал". Но когда начинаешь "настаивать", они вызывают полицию, и полиция забивает тебя до смерти.

Агентство "Фрас Пресс" представило на суд читателей "секретный мир жаргона медиков" - Британских, американских (США), а также англоязычных и франкоязычных канадских врачей, "в лексиконе которых акронимы, коими врачи "клеймят" пациентов, типа ATFO ("тот, которого попросили отъебаться"), или PAFO ("залупился- споткнулся-пизданулся"). Другой ярлык - акроним, известный как DBI ("мешок с дерьмом" (что имеет в виду гигиену пациента). Пациента при смерти врачи называют не иначе как "выпадающий в осадок", "годный только на донорские органы". "Знак Q" относится к пациенту в терминальном состоянии, с языком, болтающимся изо рта."

Мой собственный опыт напоминает мне об издевательствах в стиле Гестапо, в разных медицинских учреждениях, таких, как клиники, лаборатории, больницы. В прошлом году, в сентябре 2007, моя мать поступила в больницу St.-Mary с переломом шейки бедра. Её продержали там примерно 17 часов, после чего отправили в Центральную Монреальскую Больницу (Montreal General Hospital), в отделение "Скорой помощи". Конечно, она не могла ни сидеть, ни стоять, и её оставили на лежаке (расширенная версия носилок) в коридоре, предоставленную самой себе, без осмотра, без ухода. К тому моменту у неё развились опасные сердечные и дыхательные дисфункции, не говоря уже о невыносимой боли от сломанного бедра, но её всё равно отсоединили от кислорода и капельницы. Я не знаю, что они написали в её истории болезни, но первый раз врач её осмотрел только после 20 часов ожидания, и всё равно ничего не сделал. Ей не давали никакой еды и никакого питья, и не приносили "утку" (писсуар для лежачих больных, чтобы освободить мочевой пузырь). Она кричала и умоляла, и я требовал помощи, но более десяти медсестёр проходили мимо, и все говорили издевательским тоном, что моя мать должна мочиться прямо на лежак. Добавим, что всё это происходило на коридоре, на глазах публики, что доставляло медицинским работникам особое наслаждение. Они даже не скрывали того, что получают удовольствие от спектакля. Моя мать лежала в луже мочи, корчась от боли, 16 часов, без медицинской помощи, без еды и воды, а я между тем звонил или ходил к социальным работникам, главе орбитражной комиссии, местным депутатам, Министерство здравоохранения, двум адвокатам, в газеты, и т.д., пытаясь прекратить пытки, которым подвергли мою мать. Когда я сказал, что у меня нет с собой денег, и я не могу купить моей маме еду и питьё, никто на это никак не отреагировал. Когда я сам пошел за сухим полотенцем и простынями, чтобы подложить их под мать, я был остановлен и предупрежден, что если ещё раз так сделаю, то буду иметь дело с полицией. После 16 часов (и административного вмешательства) персонал, наконец, помог маме освободить её мочевой пузырь, но делали они это с интервалами в 6-7 часов, а первая медсестра намеренно вылила "утку", до краёв полную мочой, прямо на мою мать. Другое административное вмешательство понадобилось для перевода мамы с лежака на на больничную койку на колёсиках, но каждые 5-10 минут они толкали и двигали её кровать из угла в угол, делая это как можно более грубо, так, что она кричала от боли. Проходившие мимо по коридору люди часто задевали кровать, и это причиняло новую боль. Она постоянно рыдала, кричала от боли, взывала к помощи, больше, чем кто-либо ещё, но никакого сострадания медперсонал не проявлял. Её пододвигали всё ближе и ближе к комнате ожидания, пока не "заткнули" между сидениями и сидящими на них людьми, что было апофеозом издевательств и унижения. Я видел одного пациента, старого человека, которого положили просто на пол, якобы, "потому что больше нет кроватей". Когда прибыло ещё больше больных, и мою мать с ещё несколькими жертвами просто вытолкнули из здания прямо на улицу, это привело к протестам, почти к беспорядкам, а затем появилась полиция, и арестовала 2-х или 3-х человек. 4 суток (!) мою маму держали в этих нечеловеческих условиях, фактически даже не в приёмном покое "Скорой помощи" (!), и перевели в палату только из-за моих настойчивых жалоб. Когда она была уже там, мы увидели множество пустых кроватей, и частных пациентов в том же самом отделении, которые занимали по 2 или 3 комнаты каждый. Находясь 24 часа в сутки с мамой (а мне не давали сидеть, им не нужны свидетели, и я почти всё время стоял на ногах или сидел на корточках), я вёл записи, отмечая имена наиболее злобных медсестр, время и обстоятельства происходящего, но мои записи были позже конфискованы охранником. В течение моего пребывания в "Скорой помощи" с мамой, я насчитал больше охранников, социальных работников, и другого не-медицинского персонала, большинство из которых - просто паразиты, которые не делали абсолютно ничего, - чем медиков. Все 4 дня, проведённых в "Скорой помощи" (ER) моя мать не получала обезлоливаюших средств. Только один мужчина- мед.брат, говоривший по-французский оказался нормальным человеком, не ублюдоком. Другие, что франко-, что англоговорящие, должны заменить свою профессию на профессию профессиональных убийц.

Следующий материал - на английском языке.

B). According to CTV.ca News Staff (updated Wed. Sep. 24 2008 3:41 PM ET), one year ago, a small cut on Rush Wenzoski's right hand turned into a four-day health-care nightmare. "When the five-centimetre cut became infected, Wenzoski's partner, Krystal Davis, drove him first to the emergency room in Beausejour, Man. Staff there said they could not care for Wenzoski and the couple drove 35 minutes to the hospital in Selkirk. After a seven-hour wait in Selkirk, a doctor told them Wenzoski would need surgery and they were sent to the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. A 45-minute drive later" they "arrived at Health Sciences Centre, checked in with staff and were told a doctor would see them as soon as possible. The couple waited for three days. Wenzoski's hand was "swelling more and more by the minute," Davis told CTV.ca. He had not been given pain medication or antibiotics. "We were ready to walk out, but I knew that if we did, his hand would worsen," Davis said. When a doctor finally examined Wenzoski, he cut into his hand and left the nearly eight-centimetre gash open, exposing joints and bones, Davis said. The couple asked to change hospitals and they were sent to St. Boniface. Wenzoski was treated immediately and remained in hospital for two weeks, during which time he was rehydrated and given antibiotics. He now has a permanent four-inch scar on his hand. Despite undergoing physical therapy his hand no longer has a full range of motion, which affects Wenzoski's work as a mechanic.

Mary Munroe tells that in spite of her husband had a special yellow Chemo patient yellow ID card and should not send to ER public area at any time due to his compromised immunity, when they arrived at ER they "were told we had to wait in waiting room until someone could evaluate our needs - point blank! No decision could be made for special treatment until he could be seen by a nurse (sic! (L. G.). The reception staff effectively blocked what the chemo specialist had ordered. (…) We work so hard to find effective treatments for cancer and then the hospital proceeds to sabotage the treatment requirements!

Tim Devine says: this could happen in any hospital across Canada. "When you go to the emergency, you can quite literally be taking your life in your hands. I recently had the privilege of spending 16 hours cooped up in an emergency ward in St. John. During that time, I observed one of the most inefficent, bureaucratic organizations that seemed to be more concerned with procedures that working on cures."

Kelly Shaver from Kingston Ontario shared her experience: "Imagine if you will, an eight months pregnant woman with a history of two premature babies goes to the maternity ward of a leading Southeastern Ontario hospital with bleeding. The doctors decide they need to find out how big the baby is by way of ultrasound. Unfortunately the maternity ward's two ultrasound machines are BOTH malfunctioning. So because it was a Sunday they are going to have to call in an "on call" ultrasound technician. Six hours later she is wheeled down for her ultrasound only to find out that her baby is in a breech position (bottom first). By this time the woman is 5 cm dilated on her way to delivering. They try and rush her to the OR but alas it was too late and the baby was delivered that way, bum first with no anasthesia."

Jillian and Barb Zarney share their experience with their father, whom they were taking "countless times" to ER at the Grace hospital and Health Sciences, where they waited up to 14 hours just to hear "we don't have a specialist". The orthopedic surgeons were sending their victim home again and again (the poor man had a leg tumor); he was sent later to BC where finally he received care, but it was too late, and by then his leg had to be removed. No social or medical help after amputation. Their dad was treated worse then an animal. Complains to responsible services and to the Minister of Health gave nothing. "Our cries for help we're ignored and my Dad was treated as if his life was worthless, which eventually lead to his death in October of 2007."

A. Lissenberg wrote: "Aug 2008 my 66 year old (diabetic) mother-in-law fell off her bike breaking her left shoulder and a finger on her right hand. She was brought to Seven Oaks emerg after the accident and was released a short time later even though she is a widow, lives on her own and couldn't use either arm/hand. A few days later she was admitted to HSC for surgery. She was told to fast the night before. The surgery was postponed for several days while she remained on an IV drip for fluids and morphine. When it became apparent they were not going to operate, they got her dressed, disconnected her IV and sent her in a cab to St. B. and was only verbally told St. B. would do the surgery. She had no ID, no paperwork regarding the surgery, and no one accompanied her for the ride. The taxi driver brought her to the front door with her bag of extra clothing and she hooked it onto a pinky and carried it to the emergency area where she was told they had no record/info from HSC about her having surgery at St. B. She was left on a chair in the hallway and out of sheer exhaustion broke down and only then did they give her a bed (…)"

Melissa in Montreal wrote: "I was sent to an emergency room in Montreal by my OBGYN, because I had a miscarriage and needed surgery. I waited 12 hours to see the doctor on call, who said she would not operate on me because I was an American. My husband gently persuaded her to do the surgery, so that I would not have to wait in emergency two more days for the next obgyn. She finally agreed to do the surgery, but for a week after it, I was having severe contractions. I went back to the emergency room, because I could not stand or walk due to the intensity of the contractions. None of the staff took me seriously and instead of examining me, they gave me psychological tests. I believe at least three rounds of doctors gave me psych evaluations, before a fourth doctor decided to do a physical exam and order an ultrasound. At that point I had been in Emergency for more than a day. The ultrasound showed that the surgeon had left part of the fetus and surgical sponge or gauze in me. I was experiencing toxic shock and had to have surgery immediately. While I was having the second surgery, the doctor who botched the first surgery called my home personally asking where her money was, since I had to pay out of pocket. When my husband called her back to tell her that we were at the hospital having emergency surgery and would have to come by her office the next week, she demanded that he come to her office that very day and pay her. We had to pay the two surgeons, the anaesthisiologists and various other medical bills, and did not have the money or the energy to take legal action."

Mykey from The Lakehead is telling how worse situation in Canadian ER-s became comparing to previous years. About 10 years ago in downtown Toronto he came to St. Michael's Emergency with a serious cut to the base of his left thumb. "I made my way to and had barely reported to the front desk when a nurse approached me and asked that I roll up my sleeve for a tetanus shot. Shortly thereafter a doctor arrived and after carefully cleaning the wound, stitched it up and applied a bandage. My visit to the Hospital lasted less than half an hour." An astonishing contrast with the present situation.

Having asthma, Madelaine had to go to Sunnybrook past summer due to a respiratory infection. It took one hour for a nurse to administer the vapourized inhalation treatment that asthmatics should receive ASAP in similar ER situations. Then she was told a doctor would see her, but was never called to a doctor.

Sheryl told her boyfriend came to Calgary Foothills hospital’s ER with a terrible pain in his abdomen, having no idea what it was, and the nurses that came out to ask him what his pain threshold were given an answer it was a 10, and still he waited for several hours only to be told there was no beds in emergency (they tried to kick him out). After 14 hours of bearing with the pain in an uncomfortable waiting room chair, he was seen and then sent for emergency surgery for a blocked bowel.

Sandra Sukhan had the misfortune of going to the Health Sciences Centre Emergency Room on Sept. 16, 2008 with her father who was bleeding profusely from the ear from a cancerous tumour. They waited almost 30 minutes just to register with the Triage nurse who was not at the desk when they arrived. The nurse basically said that since Sandra’s father was not bleeding to death, he could wait, and they waited almost 5 hours.

While experiencing her own ordeal at Concordia hospital, Sylvia witnessed the most unacceptable racist behavior from the triage nurse towards an Aboriginal man who very obviously had a fractured foot. Not only did she make him wait with nothing for pain, after he had been waiting quietly and patiently about three hours she made him take off his sock and roll up his pants in front of the waiting room and stand on the injured foot to 'prove' to her he was really hurt and to ensure he wasn't "wasting her time". No one else in the waiting room was required to 'prove' they had a right to be at the hospital.

S. Bates tells others that when her grandma died they told her children to go get her things form her room. When they went to retrieve them they found their mother dead & naked lying on her hospital bed for all to see.

A freelance journalist in Montreal, known by name of Evilgentleman, wrote in December 2007 that just 10 year ago the healthcare system in Canada was incomparably more human and accessible, and added that his wife (who developed a foot infection in the Arctic (a bad blister), and was evacuated to Montreal) "was whisked by ambulance to Montreal General, where after seven hours, she was seen by a doctor who prescribed antibiotics and pain killers, and sent her home". By Thursday, she noticed the infection seemed to be spreading, and since these sorts of things can sometimes lead to amputations, they both showed up at Lakeshore General. While he was parking his car, his wife spoke to people and was told that some people there had been waiting for 12 hours or longer, and were still in the waiting room. When they went to see the admissions nurse, and said they wanted to see a doctor, the first thing to come out of her mouth was, "Are you sure? The wait is over 10 hours." The author is adding that he "never before had the experience of seeing someone in an ER waiting room being asked to confirm that they wanted health care. He’s reminding that hospital parking in the area ranges from $8.00 to $15.50 for three hours, and ambulance rides cost over $150.00, and does not do what it sets out to do. "And to top it all off, they have a blue room, where bad news is given (supposedly, blue has been tested and proven to subconsciously help make grief easier), which I guess is the health care equivalent of the "blue screen of death".

C) . Same criminal negligent and indifference clearly manifested itself across the border, in United States. In July 12, 2008 "NEWSWEEK" it was an essay of Jeneen Interlandi, who wrote "Instead of helping her, they ignored her. The story behind the videotape that shocked the country." Esmin Elizabeth Green, mother of 6 children, "fell out of her chair in the waiting room of Brooklyn's (…) hospital nearly an hour before anyone realized she was in trouble. For 20 minutes, she writhed and twisted between two chairs under the watchful eye of a security camera whose footage would later be broadcast across the country, spurring a public outcry. Two security guards and two other staff members passed through the room and glanced at the 49-year-old woman, without bothering to check her vital signs or help her up". Another author wrote that "a woman died on the floor of an emergency room in King County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, where, after having waited for nearly 24 hours for treatment, she collapsed and she was ignored by the hospital's staff for almost one hour. She was also ignored by the other patients who were waiting in the same room! How can you be pride to be a national of such a country? (…) We're talking about a proud nation. A country where everybody can't see forest for the trees, a country where the worst politicians always win, a country where guns are more important than health care (…). It's a country of the most hypocritical people on Earth: while carefully attending the Sunday church preaches, they actually don't give a shit on anyone else." A Canadian Living/Working in the US man shares his USA experience: "I can honestly say that it is not much better here in the US. I have been furious since I have moved down here 3 months ago to see what the cost of health care is for Americans to see that really they are no better off than we are with universal health care". Recently he went into a hospital to get some stitches for a cut and although bleeding profusely still had to wait almost 5 hours just to be seen. "Watching CNN the other day they said that 1.83 million Americans went bankrupt in 2007 due to medical bills."

D) . There is an official policy in Canada and US of justifying criminal behavior of medical personnel, while recognizing cruel and criminal approach of the system in general. Such a surrealistic, horrifying, twisted, ill-minded stand signifies about a total corruption of moral values in English-speaking countries. Chicago Tribune: A psychiatrist examines Esmin Green tragedy — "When you see a constant flood of terribly ill and terribly deprived people come into a facility that does not have the means to care for them, day after day, hour after hour, week after week, you have to harden yourself to a certain degree. Because there’s nothing you can do about it. Imagine what it’s like for these staff, hearing people screaming in pain, crying for help – children, young adults, old people. Some of these staff get post-traumatic stress syndrome, just like soldiers returning from Iraq. Some of them wake up at night remembering the last horrible sight they saw. And some of them adapt by shutting down.". WOW! There is nothing you can do for the patients in the all-mighty America!

E) .

1) Inhuman treatment in the hospitals and medical institutions is not exclusively a Canadian problem, but a problem of Israel and (in more recent years) all English-speaking countries (British feudal state (British Empire), USA, Canada, and Australia). Cruel attitude of Israeli medical staff is fully described in my work "GULAG of Palestine", written in 1993-1995. Israel never had a universal medical insurance plan. The whole domain of medical help is privatized there, and you must pay for everything. Whoever has no money to pay is doomed to die. What happened in US, or Canada, or UK, is just a calc from "Israeli model". At the 12th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (June 4–9, 2000, Montreal, Canada; accepted for publication: October 22, 2001) medical doctors from Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel - A. Ziser, M. Alkobi1, R. Markovits, and B. Rozenberg recognize that only in 2 and a half years "Eighteen (4.5%) patients died in the PACU, while waiting for an intensive care unit bed. The main problems were insufficient medical and nursing coverage, and inadequate communication and visiting facilities for patient’s families." However, the problem in Israel and English-speaking countries is wider then just that; it includes cruel and sometimes sadistic or criminal attitude towards patients, but of course, doctors will never write about this.

2) From "Montreal medical worker" - July 05, 2008. "I worked for 6 years for one of the big hospitals here in Montreal, Canada as a Ward Clerk (also called a Unit Agent) and I would say that there are some nurses that care and are more involved emotionally than you imagine. Unfortunately, there are also lazy people who would rather check their Facebook accounts (it was finally blocked) when they should be checking on the patients. (…) The worst people at the hospital were the Head Nurses - self serving bureaucrats who pretend to care about the patients but really think of their budgets." I agree. Head Nurses in Montreal hospitals are worst murderers and sadists not just in hospitals, but in general, and they are all lazy clowns, whose fair place is behind bars.

3) Here are other examples from February 1999: Emergency rooms were severely overcrowded for a second year in a row, not only in Ontario but also across Canada. At Cite' de la Sante', the largest hospital in suburban Laval, Quebec, staff took the unusual step of issuing a press release early in the month. The sick were asked to delay any visit to the hospital.

4) Canadian medical system is just another cyclonic machine for money laundering. Big players receive big bucks to fill in their big pockets.

According to Canadian Institute’s for Health Information report, health care spending in Canada saw an increase of nearly $100 billion within a 20-year span, from $37 billion in 1984 to $130 billion in 2004. Ontario alone now spends a remarkable 40 per cent ($32.9 billion) of its entire provincial government budget on health care and yet, the province’s hospitals continue to report deficits of half a billion dollars a year.

What are citizens getting for all this money? In what was described by a health services researcher as an "explosive" result, the Canadian Adverse Event Study, the first of its kind in this country, found an astonishing 24,000 hospital Canadians died in the year 2000 at the hands of medical personnel from errors that could have been prevented. In all, some 185,000 fatal and non-fatal mistakes occurred - 7.5 per 100 hospital patients. Nearly a quarter of Canadians - 5.2 million - said they or a family member experienced medical errors or preventable adverse effects while being treated in a hospital.

Another study found that for every "adverse event" that is detected, 20 to 25 others are not. The problem is known to be serious enough that a special task force on patient safety is recommending yet more money - this time, $10 million - be poured into creating a national institute that will identify, track and find ways to reduce medical errors.

The number of hospital workers making over $100,000 tripled since 1996 and the average pay for those making the most money increased a whopping 60 per cent. Still, humiliation and inhumanity at hospitals more then tripled.

Canadian Health Care Anti-Fraud Association found in a survey released this past September that health care fraud costs this country $3 billion to $10 billion a year. "It’s a big problem," said Michael Chettleburgh of Fraudbox Inc, which conducted the survey, by way of understatement. "Would that affect you as a health consumer? I would suggest it does."

Some estimates pegged the rate of fraudulent claims at six to 19 per cent. The most common forms are billing for services never provided, unnecessary care, mis-representing non-covered procedures as necessary and billing for services provided to a fictitious patient. Most of those surveyed called for more serious penalties for health care fraud.

Superbug infections are spiralling in Canadian hospitals, killing as many as 8,000 people a year and costing the health system $100 million. Statistics show 250,000 Canadians get sick from preventable infections every year. A CBC News investigation last spring found that restaurants have more germ-fighting regulations to contend with than hospitals do.

- In November 1999, a class action lawsuit was authorized against Montreal’s St. Charles Borromee Hospital for allegedly failing to provide even the most basic services for its severely disabled long-term patients. This included neglecting to wash and feed them properly between 1993 and 1997.

- In July 2002, Alfred Potter, a mentally ill man, died in the emergency room of Hamilton’s St. Joseph’s Hospital after a series of errors by emergency department nurses and a family doctor.

- In October 2002, 11-year-old Claire Lewis died in a Hamilton hospital from what were openly described as "a string of errors and bad decisions" in her care. Her father, a nurse within the Hamilton healthcare system, had to spend months fighting the hospital to accept its responsibility in the death, before it coughed up an unprecedented letter of apology.

- In September 2003, a $4.6 million lawsuit was filed against Hamilton fertility doctor Salim Daya for unethically conducting an unofficial clinical trial on a patient, which included a sham operation.

- In October 2003, doctors were reported to be continuing to prescribe the anti-depressants Paxil and Effexor to teenagers despite warnings of dangerous side effects, including increased risks of suicidal thoughts.

- Also in October 2003, a joint conference of the Canadian Bioethics Society and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities heard that hospitals in the Western world allow interns and residents to practise resuscitation techniques on newly deceased patients without consent.

- The same month, the boss of a probe into the Canadian SARS outbreak said a massive overhaul of the public health system was needed to address weaknesses including a lack of basic public health tools.

- In November 2003, Zambian-born Regina Dr. John Schneeberger, who was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting two of his patients, was released from prison to calls for deportation from a federal MP.

- Also in November 2003, an advisory was issued after Captain William Jackman Hospital in Labrador City may have used unsterile instruments in its gynecology clinic over a one-and-a-half-year period.

- The same month, the Kansas City Star newspaper unearthed documents that revealed Red Cross officials in Canada and the U.S. in the early 1980s were more concerned with legal requirements than with halting the spread of Hepatitis C in blood supplies. It wasn’t until 1990 that testing for the disease was begun in Canada.

- The same month, Whitby, Ont. obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Errol Wai-Ping appeared before a disciplinary committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on charges that included botched hysterectomies, deliveries and gynecological procedures, life-threatening infections after surgery, unnecessary hysterectomies and failure to diagnose cancer.

- In January 2004, the Quebec College of Physicians launched an investigation into the case of Montreal pediatric surgeon Maria Di Lorenzo, who was infected with the AIDS virus, but continued operating on children for 13 years without medical administrators being aware of her condition.

- The same month, the Ontario Ministry of Health admitted that medical instruments manufactured for single use – including forceps, scissors and speculums – were being reused by Ontario hospitals. By then, nine hospitals were forced to alert former patients that they might have been exposed to instruments that weren’t properly sterilized.

- In February 2004, the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of paramedics Sebastien Valade and Martin Gariepy, who refused to treat a dying man because they were on a break when they were called on to help.

- In March 2004, federal Auditor-General Sheila Fraser said Health Canada’s medical device protocols so lacked credibility, they are routinely ignored by hospital and lab workers. That put Canadians using pregnancy tests, pacemakers, MRIs and some forms of birth control at risk.

- In April 2004, Hamilton surgeon Dr. Daniel Bowser, whose patient died because he failed to properly communicate instructions for the man’s care, was ordered to pay almost $1.3 million as a result of a lawsuit.

- The same month, about 175 hip surgery patients over a six-year period were recalled by Montreal General Hospital because a surgical instrument used in operations performed on them may not have been properly sterilized. - In March 2003, Ontario’s chief medical officer was accused by an expert on infectious diseases of concealing the extent of the 2002 West Nile virus outbreak. The expert said he had "begged" Dr. Colin D’Cunha to notify the public about outbreaks of the disease, which killed at least 11 people.

- In May 2003, the father of a 17-month old boy who died in 2001 told a coroner’s inquest that paramedics ignored his and his wife’s pleas to transport their feverish child to hospital. This was after four earlier trips to the hospital in which doctors didn’t help the boy’s fever, vomiting and crying. Writing later on the matter, Toronto Sun columnist Michelle Mandel called the Canadian healthcare system "a shameful, tragic mess."

- In August 2003, a coroner’s investigation revealed that paramedics in Burlington, Ont. mistakenly administered morphine, instead of adrenaline, to a dying seven-year-old boy. In the boy’s particular case, the morphine slowed breathing and caused a drop in blood pressure, as well as unconsciousness. This could have led to his death.

- In September 2003, a television documentary entitled Bloody Disgrace contradicted the federal government’s claims that nothing could have been done prior to 1986 to curb the spread of Hepatitis C through tainted blood. In fact, U.S. blood experts – with whom Canadian experts worked closely - as early as 1981 were recommending donated blood undergo tests to indicate the likely presence of the virus.

- In May 2004, a third First Nations family was actually mailed the remains of their miscarried baby. Provincial Health Minister George Smitherman said he was "angered and deeply concerned" at the way "human tissue" was being handled.

- Also that month, a former male nurse at Toronto’s Sick Children’s Hospital was arrested on child pornography charges. Scott Faichnie also had photos of patients in his possession.

- Again in May 2004, Saskatchewan’s College of Physicians and Surgeons appointed a physician to review the deaths of 88 people who had been treated at Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital. The 88 had not been seen within times set by national guidelines and died within 48 hours.

- Also the same month, a Winnipeg man said he was told to lie on a waiting room floor while experiencing heart palpitations at his city’s Grace General Hospital. Stephen Fielding said he was told he would have to lie on the floor because no stretchers were available.

- Also the same month, a Winnipeg woman said she endured a two-and-a-half-year nightmare as she tried to learn how and why her 86-year-oldmother died in a city hospital. Apparently, Manitoba’s privacy laws prevented her from finding out what went wrong in her mother’s treatment.

- Also the same month, Calgary dental surgeon Dr. Douglas Vincelli agreed to pay $3 million to a patient immobilized by chronic pain after he treated her about a decade earlier.

- And also the same month, a Toronto Star article reported that many Ontario nursing home residents die each year from abuse and neglect – including broken bones, oozing bedsores, medical errors, over-medication and untreated constipation. The provincial coroner had not held even one inquest scrutinizing the inadequate care that ultimately kills some elderly.

- In June 2004, a 69-year-old Red Deer, Alta. man died after receiving the wrong painkilling medication. Three months earlier, two Calgary patients died after being given the wrong medications during dialysis treatments.

- Also in June 2004, Windsor, Ont. residents were complaining that their doctors were cherrypicking patients by shutting out those with chronic illnesses and denying basic care. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario said there are no guidelines, moral obligations or laws against physicians selectively choosing whom they will treat.

- The same month, a Montreal doctor said "dirty hospitals" were to blame for a huge increase in a potentially deadly type of diarrhea that killed as many as 79 people over a period of a year and a half.

- The same month, disgusted relatives pulled stroke victim Christina Jackson out of Victoria, B.C.’s Royal Jubilee Hospital after she was placed in a storage closet. Hospital officials characterized the move as "a creative solution to an ongoing bed shortage."

- In July 2004, the first study of its kind in Canada found that five per cent of 2,000 chest-pain patients rushed to two Vancouver hospitals were discharged inappropriately by doctors who had misdiagnosed them. Heart attacks and unstable angina were commonly missed by the physicians.

- Also in July 2004, three Health Canada scientists were fired for daring to criticize their department’s drug approval policies. The three said they were often pressured to approve unsafe veterinary drugs.

- The same month, a Windsor, Ont. couple was left in shock after their two-year-old son died at home following what was described as "simple day surgery" to remove his tonsils and adenoids.

- The same month, it was discovered that London, Ont. doctor Tenzin Rabgey, who committed suicide, had hundreds of thousands of child porn images on his computers.

- In August 2004, a B.C. woman died in a White Rock hospital after what the family alleged was hospital bureaucracy. The woman’s uncle, who had rushed her to the hospital, was told, "I’m sorry, sir, you’ll have to call an ambulance … that’s our policy, sir."

- Also in August 2004, an Emergency Care Task Force in Winnipeg identified the need to "look at all our processes … look at the whole system" after a string of high-profile tragedies in the city’s hospitals. They included the death of a woman who perished from a heart attack after waiting in the emergency room for six hours.

- The same month, the Canadian practice of reusing single-use medical devices was being described as "still common" and "routine." A medical device manufacturers association described the results of such practices as "disastrous" and said patients were being exposed to needless risks on a daily basis. Meanwhile, the Canadian Medical Association Journal said Canadian hospitals were in the "dark ages" when it came to containing sometimes-fatal bacteria in their midst.

- In September 2004, two B.C. parents accused the medical system of failing them after their six-year-old daughter died because of a diagnosis of a bacterial infection that came too late.

- In October 2004, the Peter Lougheed Centre hospital in Calgary discarded a woman’s miscarried baby into a trash compactor. The baby’s remains had been left sitting in a plastic bag on an emergency room counter before the disposal.

- The same month, it was reported that young children in Saskatchewan can literally have to wait years for surgery within their home province.

- In November 2004, a mixup at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre left a premature baby’s body at the hospital for two weeks as the baby’s family buried only the placenta and fetal membranes, thinking they were the baby’s body.

- The same month, a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reported that Canadian heart attack victims are dying because crowded emergency rooms are leading to life-threatening delays in the administration of clot-clearing drugs.

- In December 2004, police investigated the disappearance of a 17-week-old stillborn baby from St. Catharines General Hospital in Ontario. The hospital said after a search it had "somehow" lost the 1.7-ounce, 15-centimetre baby.

- In January 2005, a study reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that dozens of children leave hospital emergency departments every day without being seen by a doctor because of overcrowding and lengthy waits for care.

- Also in January 2005, Hamilton grandmother Joanne Blais laid for two-and-a-half days on an uncomfortable stretcher in Henderson General Hospital’s emergency department, sometimes in her own vomit, before being diagnosed with a brain tumour. According to news reports, her story didn’t shock the chief of emergency medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences, who said patients are commonly lined in hallways.

- In May 2005, four doctors were found guilty of negligence in the death of a Stoney Creek, Ont. woman and were held liable for an award of $186,000. A Superior Court judge said the actions of the four "fell below the standard of skill and care that is reasonably expected of a normal, prudent medical practitioner."

- The Canadian Blood Services agency and Hamilton hospitals in June 2005 refused to discuss a case of tampering that had occurred with records kept on blood given at Hamilton blood donor clinics. The tampering had sparked a massive recall of blood products by the agency two months earlier.

- The same month, staff at Kelowna General Hospital in B.C. refused to treat an unconscious man who had been brought to their site and instead told his transporter to call 911 and wait for an ambulance. Three years earlier, a woman who collapsed just metres from the hospital’s emergency room doors had also been told to wait for an ambulance.

- Also in June 2005, the Canadian Union of Public Employees charged hospitals "are becoming an increasingly unsafe environment" because of "bugs that are growing more virulent." In April 2005, 19 people in Port Colborne, Ont. and Welland, Ont. hospitals tested positive for bacteria resistant to antibiotics, while a Kingston hospital in June 2005 reported 30 such cases – some with active infections. A strain of C. difficile bacteria infected 7,000 people, killing 600 of them, in Quebec in the months following April 2003.

- Again in June 2005, Newfoundland doctor Sean Buckingham was hit with eight more criminal charges, including one of uttering threats, for a total of 30 charges in a "sex-for-pills" operation. A second physician, Boyd Goodyear, faced a charge of sexual assault.

- The same month, Ontario’s chief coroner ordered a review of Toronto pathologist Dr. Charles Smith, who was accused of mishandling 40 autopsies involving the suspicious deaths of children.

- In facing a charge of conduct unbecoming a doctor, laid by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Windsor, Ont.-area physician Nicholas Rathe admitted in August 2005 that he verbally abused his patients, calling them names and swearing at them.

- In September 2005, two nurses pleaded guilty to professional misconduct in the death of a 10-year-old girl at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. The two admitted they did not adequately monitor the girl, nor did they correctly document her care or condition. A coroner’s inquest had earlier ruled the death a homicide.

- In May of this year, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein predicted that the rear end of his successor "will pucker" when he sees the amount that is being spent on health care and by how much that figure is escalating every year. It is expected that healthcare will gobble up 60 per cent of the provincial budget by 2025.

- A June 2006 Hamilton Spectator article asked the question: "How can hospitals stop killing people?" It noted 9,000-24,000 patients are killed by errors every year in Canada, with hundreds alone in the Hamilton Health Sciences system.

- Health Canada announced in July of this year that X-ray induced cancers are killing up to 2,500 Canadians a year, while procedures that use X-rays to guide thin tubes and other devices into blood vessels and arteries have not been tested for radiation safety. Researchers also report that chest X-rays may double or triple the risk of breast cancer in women genetically predisposed to the disease.

- January 17, 2007. ER wait ends in miscarriage, by CP. MONTREAL -- A pregnant woman says she had to wait more than 15 hours in an emergency room before being treated and had a miscarriage in the hospital's bathroom. Marie-Sabine Thalerand was two months pregnant and said she went to the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital on Jan. 8 with her husband because she was bleeding. "I went to reception but they told me to wait my turn," she said. The hospital said it's investigating and noted its emergency services were stretched beyond the normal limit that day.

- This has happened in Alberta twice in the past few months. Perhaps even more. Two were widely publicized. As far as I know nothing has been done to correct it; other than a lot of talk.

- Nurses schedule week to week - who was to call in sick and who was to come in on call and get paid double time, and it's quite common.

- In Montreal, nurses at Sacre'-Coeur staged a wildcat strike to protest the overcrowding, a problem experienced by every hospital in the city. For instance, at Maisonneuve-Rosemont—a hospital that had drawn national attention the year before because an elderly patient had died while waiting to be seen in its overcrowded emergency room—79 patients jammed into a room designed to accommodate only 34.

- In Nelson, British Columbia, a 74-year-old ER patient was placed in a hospital storage area. No other room could be found for him at a time when patients were routinely placed in hallways and linen closets. And, in Victoria, facilities were running at 110% capacity—since the summer before. The above incidents all occurred during a two-week period.

In Quebec, Jean-Pierre Menard, a lawyer that is specialising in the domain of patiens' (sick people's) rights, demanded from Health Minister Philippe Couillard to respect laws regulating the triage of patients in ERs.

At a conference of Montreal's presse, Mr. Menard presented cases of 4 people who died because of the total violation of the law.

Mr. Menard slamed the nurses saying that they completely ignore the "code of the priority", or, in other words, they pay no attenrion to how grave is a patient's condition. Priority, according to the law, must be given to those in more severe state, but the nurses violate this principle because of favoritism (and bribes - we must add (L. G.).

In general, the law says that a waiting time (for triage) must be not longer then 120 minutes, but in severe cases it must be reduced.

In real life patients are waiting many hours.

One of above mentioned 4 cases is the case of Nicole Dauphinais, a 57 years old female, who died of the pilmonary embolism in Pierre-Boucher de Longueuil hospital, after waiting enourmously long (many hours) in vain.

Mr. Menard said:

" On l'a place'e dans un corridor sur une civie`re et elle est reste'e la` pendant six heures et demie a` attendre de voir un me'decin. Elle n'a jamais vu de me'decin, elle n'a jamais vu d'infirmie`re pour la re'e'valuer non plus. Tout ce que je sais, c'est qu'elle a sonne' durant la soire'e parce qu'elle ne filait pas bien et on lui a apporte' une Gravol pour le mal de coeur ", raconte sa fille Carole Co^te'.

How similar this cruel treatment to treatment of my mother (see above) at Montreal General Hospital!

Menard also spoke about a case of a man taken by police to Santa Cabrini de Montreal hospital.

Another case is a death of 70 years old man, whose heart stopped in Montreal General Hospital after he, accompained by his wife, was waiting at Emergency's waiting room more then 7 hours, and never received any help or even attention.

A 64 years old women died in Trois-Rivieres' hospital after an heart attack, waiting 3 hours at ER in vein.

According to Mr. Menard, such an exceptional cruelty and system's indifference has nothing to do with poor hospitals' conditions or lack of resources, but must be attrubuted exclusively to medical workers criminal actions (violation of laws and regulations).

Menard said that all such cases are just medical workers' crimes, and nothing else, and must be dealt as with any other crime, while in the present-day Canada medical staff is untouchable, and this is the core of the problem.