Originally Posted by garce

I can give you three that happened within the last year involving close members of family.

Last June, my uncle went for surgery for operable lung cancer. He was 60. They removed the tumour and, while still in hospital, he was recovering nicely and in good spirits. After a few days of mostly lying in bed, he caught pneumonia. They put a shunt in to drain the fluid from his lungs. They put the shunt in wrong. He died.

In February, my grandmother fell and broke her hip. She was sitting in a hospitial in Campbellfod for a week, strung out on Morphine, while her doctor drove from city to city looking for a bed in a hospital where this woman could be operated on. She's ok now, but if you're old here and not a politician, you're expendable, it seems.

Recently my mother was complaining of a shortness of breath. It got to the point where she couldn't breathe at all ans she was starting to panic. An ambulance came, they looked her over at Scarborough general and sent her home. A few hours later she collapsed, not being able to draw breath. again she was rushed to the hospital, where they finally got it right, She's doing much better now, but if we weren't here she would have died on her floor.

Health care gets worse here by the year.