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Canada has better healthcare, eh?
by Hijexx at 11:09 am EDT, Apr 24, 2004

MONTREAL (CP) - A 21-year-old man died of appendicitis after he was refused treatment at an emergency clinic because he didn't have his provincial health card with him.
Gerald Augustin complained of stomach pains on Thursday but the receptionist at the St-Andre medical centre told him he had to return home to get his health card. He didn't make it back to the clinic in Montreal's east end.
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Rouslene Augustin, administrator at the St-Andre clinic, said the man didn't appear to have any urgent symptoms when he came to the clinic.

"If this guy was an emergency case, we would accept him if he had his card or not," she said.

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American ERs, for all their faults, have to take you anytime. I guess Canada is great though, if you have your card.

RE: Canada has better healthcare, eh?
by Decius at 12:45 pm EDT, Apr 24, 2004

Hijexx wrote:
] "If this guy was an emergency case, we would accept him if he
] had his card or not," she said.

I hate fucking bureaucrats.
If the guy died, you did something wrong.
If you disconnect my gas, but I paid you, you did something wrong.
Get it straight.