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To: Ian McGuire who wrote (365)	10/5/2000 7:46:28 PM
From: Teresa Lo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8925

It's such a contrast. My brother, who is 52 years old, lives in Huntington Beach in a gated community with a country club, had a heart attack a month ago while he was on the golf course, at 9:30AM. They got him to the hospital in no time flat, and the attack was stopped in progress by 10:30AM. By 2:30PM he was in the operating room and received a triple bypass, and was out of surgery by 6:30PM. At the hospital, they have a team of three surgeons on 24 hour standby to deal with people like him. In contrast, a friend's mother, only 50 years old, showed up at an emergency room here in Vancouver, with pain in her abdomen, so severe that she was vomiting and crying. She was given Demerol and sent home. Later that week, her doctor told her that she had gallstones, but of course, the waiting list to for "elective" gallbladder surgery was two months. Three weeks later, she was in the hospital again, but this time she could not leave, for the backup in the gallbladder has caused acute pancreatitis, and she spent the next three weeks in intensive care, hovering in an induced coma on life support. Luckily, she survived, but remains in the hospital today, gravely ill, waiting to recover enough to endure the surgery to get the gallbladder out. In the meantime, that's another hospital bed that is occupied needlessly while someone else dies out there. It's just insane. We might as well be U.S. Medicaid patients, since so many of us Canadians will end up dead for lack of necessary services. And all this is happening even before the Boomers reach retirement, and the unfunded liabilities balloon. I too, am seriously considering relocation. Teresa