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The Work Farce from Canada writes: Talk about a war on drugs. There's a hospital holocaust taking place in medical facilities across Canada. Maybe it's time to declare total war on the pusher man, the pill pusher man. Some 70,000 Canadians each year are damaged by preventable adverse medical errors and some 23,000 die each year from those medical errors. A large percentage of them are drug related - wrong medications prescribed by overzealous doctors and administered by harried nurses; overdoses of right medications, lethal mixes of too many medications. Add to these shocking numbers the number of Canadians who die alone at home due to the same medication problems, there's a silent disaster happening. Of course, some meds do save many lives. Powerful pills, like surgery, however, should be a last resort, not the first. It's a matter of monitoring to see that people are being treated honestly, compassionately, and rightfully without discrimination based on race, religion, gender, ethnicity, diasability, social condition or ability to pay. Our health care workers, bless them, have proved they cannot police themselves. So how do we stop the hospital holocaust and prevent our hospitals turning into a slaughterhouse for the less fortunate minorities? We need a humanitarian intervention. We need to send our troops into the hospitals to patrol the wards. To make peace between medical staff and patients; to weed out the rogue surgeons and nurses; to stop the corrupt profiteering, to serve and protect the vulnerable. To bring security and democracy to the hospitals. To save lives.
- Posted 03/06/08 at 11:52 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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The Work Farce from Canada writes: The Work Farce: Who can argue with your perfect logic, powerful eloquence and passionate compassion?
- Posted 06/06/08 at 2:27 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Tracy Bracy from Toronto, Canada writes: Medications work and doctors know how to properly perscribe them. NO ONE can afford them. Also, hospital drugs are different from market place medications. Hospital medications usually can not be self administered. Relying on this type of care really makes a patient dependent on others.
- Posted 10/06/08 at 3:01 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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