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No worries, the publicly run system will not be accountable. That's how Canada works. You are here as a subject of the State, you should be happy Canada even keeps you around silly fool.
Canada is the creepiest system in the West, stories like this just remind me just to what extent. Be it police, politicians, State Run media, or State Run "healthcare".
There is a reason we lose our best talent and our allies don't trust us...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/needle-spine-patient-hospital-1.5743567
When the pain in her shoulders and weakness in her right leg started two years ago, Giovanna Ippolito thought it was just part of getting older — that's until the 46-year-old's doctor ordered an X-ray that showed a five-centimetre long, broken needle embedded in her spine.
It was a medical error that took more than a decade to discover — after medical staff at the time failed to report it.
"When I saw it on the X-ray just protruding out like that … it made me sick to my stomach. It's scary to know that it's just sitting there in my spine," the Bolton, Ont., woman, said of seeing the X-ray in October 2018.
Exactly when the needle was left in Ippolito's spine is unclear, but she says she's only had something injected into her back twice — during the birth of her son in 2002 and her daughter in 2004.
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She's now locked in a battle with the hospital for answers and accountability. But experts say, with a system that's stacked against Canadians harmed by medical errors, it's likely no one will have to take responsibility.
More than 132,000 patients experienced some kind of medical harm — something both preventable and serious enough to require treatment or a longer hospital stay — in 2018-19, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, a Crown corporation that collects information on the country's health systems.
Canada is the creepiest system in the West, stories like this just remind me just to what extent. Be it police, politicians, State Run media, or State Run "healthcare".
There is a reason we lose our best talent and our allies don't trust us...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/needle-spine-patient-hospital-1.5743567
When the pain in her shoulders and weakness in her right leg started two years ago, Giovanna Ippolito thought it was just part of getting older — that's until the 46-year-old's doctor ordered an X-ray that showed a five-centimetre long, broken needle embedded in her spine.
It was a medical error that took more than a decade to discover — after medical staff at the time failed to report it.
"When I saw it on the X-ray just protruding out like that … it made me sick to my stomach. It's scary to know that it's just sitting there in my spine," the Bolton, Ont., woman, said of seeing the X-ray in October 2018.
Exactly when the needle was left in Ippolito's spine is unclear, but she says she's only had something injected into her back twice — during the birth of her son in 2002 and her daughter in 2004.
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She's now locked in a battle with the hospital for answers and accountability. But experts say, with a system that's stacked against Canadians harmed by medical errors, it's likely no one will have to take responsibility.
More than 132,000 patients experienced some kind of medical harm — something both preventable and serious enough to require treatment or a longer hospital stay — in 2018-19, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, a Crown corporation that collects information on the country's health systems.
