Passing the Old ER Buck

St. Mary's Hospital on the Sunshibe Coast has no doctors covering the ER on the weekends in August - high disaster time.

What is so re-assuring about this story is the reaction of the vancouver Coastal Health authority.

"It's not our responsibility."

Hahahaha....and this from their official spokespersonage, Viviana Zanocco, a former news reporter. How does she sleep at night?

A better quote comes from Dr. Geoff Appleton, the head of the BCMA: "The can't let themselves off the hook. It;s their emergency room. It's their community."

Do these regional health authorities want the power and the responsibility that goes with the power or do they not? Are they answerable and accountable or are they not?

It has been clear to many of us for some time now that these bodies are a huge and unnecessary financial drain on the medical system. GET RID OF THEM.