Thursday, March 26, 2009

Doctor says Canada-care killed Natasha Richardson

The price you pay for Canadian healthcare - you get to die of things that wouldn’t kill you in America. A physician explains how Canada-care (and lack of CT scanners in their system) killed Natasha Richardson:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03262009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/canadacare_may_have_killed_natasha_161372.htm

“Richardson died of an epidural hematoma — a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure buildup. With prompt diagnosis by CT scan, and surgery to drain the blood, most patients survive.

Could Richardson have received this care? Where it happened in Canada, no. In many US resorts, yes. “

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