He was right there, in pain, dying, for 34 hours, and they were oblivious, noticing nothing!Report here.
Ok, so, legally, they're not responsible, for they didn't know- the guy wasn't registered as a waiting patient for some reason.
But, really, how on earth can healthcare professionals be so oblivious as to what's going on right in front of them? A man, waiting 34 hours, with a kidney ailment, dying in pain...
That's the problem with people today- they don't notice the obvious for some reason. I see this all the time, everywhere- people not noticing obvious stuff that's right before their eyes. It's as if they have some kind of... mental disorder.
Beyond that, the question is begged: Why had no policymakers foreseen the potential of such a situation happening, thus formulating and implementing the policies required to prevent it? Why do people and organizations not have foresight, and only make necessary "changes" after someone dies? Why do people have to die before other people start using their brains?
This is frightening... in the overworked, understaffed, socialist Canadian healthcare system, we have medical professionals not noticing what's going on around them, and we have policymakers/bureaucrats/hospital administrators, etc., etc., not using their brains (or perhaps not being smart enough anyway in the first place... how did they get their jobs; did they know someone who knew someone, like, was it patronage, nepotism, what?), not having plain, fundamental, simple, common-sense foresight... dammit, I would've seen such an obvious potential problem coming and recommended the policies only now being put into place (or so they claim). Oh, yes, I would. It's so fundamental, elementary, obvious common sense... the potential of a dizzy, confused, infected, in-pain and critically-in-need-of-immediate-attention person just coming in and sitting down, somehow, possibly, not realizing he's supposed to report at the admitting desk... so common-sense that it can happen, and will, someday. But I'm also justifiably afraid that my recommendations would be rejected as "...inconvenient, unnecessary; those things don't and won't ever happen- what are you, nuts, delusional, stupid? Besides, see, we have a limited budget, so I decide, not you! Now return to picking flyshit out of pepper with boxing gloves, you unimportant flunky who's supposed to shut up and just do as you're told..."
Stupid, oblivious, brain-dormant people everywhere... Only using their brains after someone dies and when they're in the public spotlight, worried about their own sorry asses...
People just keep on getting stupider and stupider... am I the only one who notices that Western society has been becoming progressively (hey, y'know, Leftists call themselves "progressive") dumber, dumber, less and less aware of reality as it is before their very eyes... How did this happen, and how will we reverse this terrible, somehow-spread/acquired, mass-mental disorder throughout society, including the most important professionals responsible for our very lives?
Legally, there may not be responsibility or consequences, but there is responsibility on the part of everyone to always be sharp-eyed, mentally-alert and aware, possessing common-sense foresight regardless of inconvenience or cost. The consequences? Already passed- a man died right in front of them and they didn't notice. And they're supposed to (ok, not legally, but, still!).
There is a responsibility. It's ethical and moral, if not necessarily legal. It's irrelevant if some emotionally-fragile and mentally-lazy folks will feel that this kind of responsibility is inconvenient and claim that they somehow have a Charter right to not be thusly responsible, and this kind of responsibility must be required and imposed! Yes! Require and impose the imperative to be responsible and use your brain! That's what's important, not political correctness fascism, not that insane, anti-free-speech, watch-what-you-say-so-you-don't-offend-the-feelings-of-any-sensitive-special-interest-wimps nonsense we see today being pushed as most important by the Hard Left fascists.
It's social responsibility, not social liberalism/progressivism, stupid!
You can't have rights unless you are responsible! This should be the new political correctness!
Inconvenient, you say? Tough! You must be responsible, like it or not!!!
You see, it is irresponsible to delude oneself that one's only responsibility is to obey the law but be uncaring about ethical and moral responsibility. That's the problem with the world today- ethics and morals are progressively (again, Leftists claim to be "progressive", so I guess now we know what that's all about!!!) seen as less and less relevant, less necessary, even allegedly (inexplicably, insanely) in violation of peoples' rights if we say they should be ethical and moral! Is this what "liberalism" and "progressivism" are all about? (And, Leftists, don't blame right-wingers, for they're affected by YOUR liberal fascism, too, despite themselves, sometimes, plus they do have to worry about politics and stuff, stuff you guys put in place to handcuff them, making it very hard, sometimes virtually impossible, to be ethical and moral, as you claim that "imposing" ethics and morals is somehow against your -usually imaginary- "rights" and are always holding ugly "demonstrations" and going to court for "fight for your right" to not be forced to use your brain, to be ethical and moral... Dammit, those Leftists make it hard for even responsible people to be responsible... sometimes, it's like we desperately want to make things work properly but thanks to others, we are powerless to do so, and sometimes if we try to push our recommendations, we get in trouble of some sort as if we've blasphemed some secular deity, judging from the reactions of brainless, immoral, unethical, cavalierly uncaring, selfish, paycheck-and-benefits-are-the-only-objectives imbeciles...
Of course, "progressives" will automatically, as per their essential nature as "progressives", find my analysis and commentary inconvenient and will attack me as "stupid, crazy, delusional, hateful, racist, rightwingnut, etc., etc... Well, I say that leftists/liberals/progressives are anything but, and are actually deserving of the label "destructives". And I blame the "progressive" (destructive) movement for the conditions that make it easy for people to be brainless, cavalierly uncaring, oblivious, unethical, immoral, selfish... Of course, "progressives" will deny any responsibility on the part of their movement and its sinister, destructive, "rights"-not-responsibility-focussed agenda. They will engage in projection, passing the buck of blame and responsibility onto others, unable to handle the inconvenient truth about themselves and their destructive movement.
As citizens of a society, we have a duty, a responsibility, to be responsible, to be aware, to use our brains, so as to not allow unnecessary risk to the safety and lives of others.
And those responsible professionally for the lives of the People, from top, ivory-tower administration on down to the non-medical staff on the floor of the actual healthcare provision areas... are most responsible of all.
If you know someone is going to die someday because of the setup of an organization, and your indication of this is rejected or politely dismissed with the convenient, please-shut-up-now lie, "sure, we'll have someone look into it", don't give up. Go over those selfish, unethical, immoral, money-is-more-important-than-anything-else, brain-disordered bullies' heads. Go to the media, spread it on the blogosphere, go to politicians, whatever it takes. Saving one life is worth the fight.
