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To: LindyBill who wrote (78249)	10/17/2004 6:43:01 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793843

So the receptionist said we’d have to go away and come back later. Surely this must be an exaggeration. It's preposterous that people cannot be treated without their Medicare card. What if you're in an accident or the victim of a crime and are separated from your purse or collapse when outside in your robe and slippers collecting the morning paper? Is this true?

To: LindyBill who wrote (78249)	10/17/2004 9:26:12 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793843

>>He went back home, collapsed of acute appendicitis, and by the time the ambulance arrived he was dead. And a lawsuit is pending? I've had appendicitis myself. You start out feeling bad, like you have stomach flu or food poisoning but it keeps getting worse. I had it several times but got better, until the last time. My appendix did rupture but not until they were removing it. If your appendix ruptures, you're most likely to get peritonitis, an infection of the peritoneum because of contamination by bowel material. Ringo Starr, the drummer for the Beatles, had that happen to him when he was a kid. You may die but it will take a while. Otherwise, you're just real sick. If this guy was able to drive or walk into a hospital, and drive or walk back home, and collapsed and died within minutes (around here the ambulance will get here in less than ten minutes) then that was a freak accident. People here in the US get sent home with heart attacks and die all the time. Actual heart attacks. And even so, there may well be no legal liability if the heart attack did not present in a way that was reasonably diagnosable. Lots of heart attacks present as GI pain, or muscle pain. It's a sad story but not a searing indictment of Canadian medical care.