Reform, or just better funding?
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This is obviously needed
Shorter wait times are needed, yes, but a law imposing an arbitrary maximum isn't going to help. Unless you have more and better supported healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, technicians, the entire chain) all that imposing a maximum wait will do is reduce quality of care as people are rushed through or turned away.
Supposing that people will be rejected from ER so they can maintain their minimum wait time is a wild take.
This is already happening, sort of.
When ER rooms are too busy, they refuse intake from ambulances. Meaning the patient stays in the ambulance or in the wait room but under the supervision of the ambulance paramedics, not the hospital... this of course results is even longer wait times, subpar care, and fewer ambulances to deal with emergencies out there
Keep voting Doug Ford Ontario... he'll get to this as soon as the bicycle lanes are gone, that's an obvious priority
What if we say that provincial politicians salaries are garnished after the wait time is exceeded?
I think we could also do that for senior hospital administrators who lack a front-line medical background.
Yeah
The other thing I didn’t like was when they said Finlay “gave up” and he was hypoxic.
Hypoxia causes drowsiness, fatigue, disorientation.
I don’t think it’s fair to say he “gave up”.
He should have been seen earlier, but we all deserve shorter hospital wait times.
said their 16-year-old son, Finlay, had a few days of mild illness and was suffering from migraines before his condition began to worsen.
From what I read about this story last week, he was suffering from pneumonia and sepsis (among other health issues).
The eight hours in the ER, although unacceptable, was the tail end of a much bigger problem with his health.
He should have been brought in days sooner. Pneumonia almost never kills healthy teens, certainly not in a few hours of waiting, so he had other issues going on and I'm sure the hospital will be aggressively defending against this lawsuit.
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