Health Care Sick - So Much is "Process" and Talk About Nothing

Don Cayo has sharply reminded us in today's excellent column in the Sun that our health care system is far from healthy.

We place way at the bottom of an international list in terms of efficiencies and accessabilities.

None of us should be surprised at these findings.

Yesterday, I took a meeting with some people in a health care facility, one that bloatingly calls itself a "campus of care." Yech!

Yes, both of the people I talked with were informed and "caring" up the yin yang.

Why, then, did I feel within minutes after leaving that I urgently needed a cold shower?

Was it all the bafflegab, ass-covering and plain, old country horseshit I was being fed?

All I really asked was could they get an old guy some vitamins and treat his bleeding wounds?

Well, don't you know, there was this regulation and that protocol and respect for his right to make lousy, old man self-destructive choices.

In short, nothing.

Multiply that visit by 200,00 similar daily visits across Canada and ...well, you get the picture.

How about less talk and more medicine?