What a fantastic article.
That a major medical facility would not have air medevac or neurosurgical capability is, to me, astounding. And honestly, I've never even given much consideration to the helicopter situation. Yet, in the small town I live in I routinely see choppers taking off and landing from one of our hospitals.
This is where we're going with our health care. It is what the Left wants. It is what Obama wants. And it is "change". That is all that's required.
As reported by the Associated Press, Montreal’s top trauma neurosurgeon cited the lack of emergency helicopters as a contributing factor in the death. “Our system isn’t set up for traumas and doesn’t match what’s available in other Canadian cities, let alone in the States,” said Tarek Razek, director of trauma services for the McGill University Health Centre.
Secondly, even after arriving in Montreal, the patient had to be transported by land to yet another facility where a neurosurgeon was available. Now, this is not some podunk little community hospital area -- this is a major metropolitan center without air medevac, and apparently without adequate neurosurgical capability, or at least a system of trauma triage. |
