shockedcanadian
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Just my daily reminder to Americans why you DON'T want a healthcare (or any other) system like Canadas.
Overwhelmed ER leaves woman with internal bleeding on hallway stretcher for 5 days
Her name is Jamie-Lee Ball, but for five days last month during severe overcrowding at a Brampton, Ont., hospital, she was "Hallway Patient No. 1."
Although she was bleeding internally and in "excruciating pain," Ball spent five days in a hallway of Brampton Civic Hospital on a stretcher with no pillow and just three thin curtains between her and a busy public area.
"It was really surprising," Ball said in an interview. "One of the comments that my mom made is that she felt like we were in a Third World country — deprived of a room, just lying on stretcher in the hallway."
On March 25, Ball was suffering from severe abdominal pain. Having undergone major abdominal surgery in February, she worried it could be a complication and went to the emergency room at the Brampton hospital.
Ball could tell the ER was busy, and not long after she arrived the hospital announced it was under "Code Gridlock," a state in which a hospital is essentially full and patients can no longer be admitted or moved to a bed.
Overwhelmed ER leaves woman with internal bleeding on hallway stretcher for 5 days
Her name is Jamie-Lee Ball, but for five days last month during severe overcrowding at a Brampton, Ont., hospital, she was "Hallway Patient No. 1."
Although she was bleeding internally and in "excruciating pain," Ball spent five days in a hallway of Brampton Civic Hospital on a stretcher with no pillow and just three thin curtains between her and a busy public area.
"It was really surprising," Ball said in an interview. "One of the comments that my mom made is that she felt like we were in a Third World country — deprived of a room, just lying on stretcher in the hallway."
On March 25, Ball was suffering from severe abdominal pain. Having undergone major abdominal surgery in February, she worried it could be a complication and went to the emergency room at the Brampton hospital.
Ball could tell the ER was busy, and not long after she arrived the hospital announced it was under "Code Gridlock," a state in which a hospital is essentially full and patients can no longer be admitted or moved to a bed.