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Originally Posted by curves2000
I think I should have clarified in my post that I was referring to non life threatening and urgent care cases.
In Brodie's case he collapsed, was attended to at the Dome and than was transported to hospital alert. He was released after a few hours after it was deemed that this wasn't a life threatening case.
Where the divergence happens was after the fact where he had a battery of testing and saw a variety of specialists in a very very short order for observation.
The waiting time to see a cardiologist, an electrical specialist or other specialists is generally weeks and months if not more. How many people do you know that have ever said they got their issues dealt with in 3-4 days?
This isn't unique to TJ Brodie. It is literally an absolute given that a certain segment of the Canadian population is given 100% priority.
Justin Trudeau, Jason Kenny, members of Cabinet and elite members of the military aren't waiting around weeks & months for a consultation, testing to be ordered, a follow up appointment and than the treatment or surgery to start.
As a hockey related example, say Mike Babcock needed elective eye surgery, I doubt he is waiting the approx 2-3 months for a consult before decision is made on surgery. A quick look at the waiting times for Ontario show this but as I noted above, it wouldn't happen for a specific group of people.
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Well thanks for clarifying, and in the case I describe, your assumption is basically not correct. The person went to the hospital with a tachycardia, roughly 200 bpm. (Funny enough, the person checked emergency wait times prior to going.) That was dealt with and reset by emergency staff.
It was at that point non life threatening.
They kept the person in hospital for 4 overnights, Holter monitor, EKG, cardiac MRI. That led to diagnosis and consultation with a specialist, an electrocardiologist from the Libin institute.
Now once the condition was diagnosed, the options to manage and/or rectify the condition were discussed.
The diagnosis of this condition was not as far as I am concerned less for this average joe than they would have been for TJ Brodie, as you seem to want to believe.
Treatment, sure. You can probably find options that allow you to accelerate things.