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applegrove

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14. Our hospitals are top notch. There may be some new treatment not available
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 09:02 PM
Aug 2019

anywhere but say the MAYO Clinic right now, but there is treatment at canada's research hospitals that you can't get anywhere else. Worst i've seen in canada was a guy who lived in a small town i lived in. He was retired and doing the houseboat thing. Anyway he had a heart attack and the small town hospital didn't have the ability to operate or something and he only had 1/2 an hour to live. If he had lived an hour east he would have had access to a regional big hospital complex. His kids told me. They gathered from around the country for his funeral and came into the restaurant i worked in where he was a regular. They told me. Sad. But they felt good he died living the crazy houseboat lifestyle he loved. He could not have lived that an hour east i don't think.

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dear justin trudeau, [View all] mopinko Aug 2019 OP
No solution... Several are getting health care only available here (clinical trials), hlthe2b Aug 2019 #1
feeding tubes arent that hard, and as far as clinical trials, mopinko Aug 2019 #3
The one with the feeding tube is getting experimental treatment via the tube. hlthe2b Aug 2019 #5
Does Canada have the facilities? The reason we have some of the best medical Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #2
i can say for certain, but mopinko Aug 2019 #4
For heavens sakes, clinical trials are unique to the facility performing/offering them. hlthe2b Aug 2019 #6
i understand that, although there could be a compassionate use mopinko Aug 2019 #7
Simply not possible for several of them. It isn't a "marketable or packaged drug" and one hlthe2b Aug 2019 #8
so let's figure out how to save as many as they can. mopinko Aug 2019 #9
We need the courts to step in and order ADMIN to allow them to remain. First the public has to hlthe2b Aug 2019 #10
Clinical trials are unique to the facilities carrying them out. luvtheGWN Aug 2019 #11
these are not at the stage that you think. These are genetic manipulations and surgeries in many hlthe2b Aug 2019 #12
Thanks for the explanation! luvtheGWN Aug 2019 #15
i dont want to make them. i want them to stay right here. mopinko Aug 2019 #16
mopinko and luvtheGWN, here is one example of care available nowhere else(since she has gone public) hlthe2b Aug 2019 #13
yeah, this one i knew. very, very rare disease. mopinko Aug 2019 #17
Our hospitals are top notch. There may be some new treatment not available applegrove Aug 2019 #14
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