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2010-02-03 Great White North

N.L Premier Williams set to have heart surgery in the U.S.

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Posted by Beavis 2010-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Dr. Christopher Feindel, a cardiac surgeon at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at the University Health Network in Toronto, was quoted as saying this on the rare Canadian cases requiring surgery on the thoracic aorta: "in Ontario, when we run across these cases we tend to send them to one of the heart centres in Texas." US celebs John Ritter & Steve Allen both died of ruptures in their thoracic aortas, ailments in that region are not that rare.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-02-03 02:02|| 2010-02-03 02:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Prima facie evidence that socialized medicine is inferior to private.

Posted by no mo uro 2010-02-03 05:58|| 2010-02-03 05:58|| Front Page Top

#3 No, no, no, No Mo; it was just his choice ....

Say! Why does he get a choice? Were politician exempted from CanukCare?

Posted by Bobby 2010-02-03 06:19|| 2010-02-03 06:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Anguper, thanks for the quote. I'm blown away that no cardiothoracic surgeon in Canada will touch a thoracic aortic aneursym. You could go to the top 50 university medical programs here in the US and find a surgeon who would, and another top-50 private programs as well.

Posted by Steve White 2010-02-03 09:33|| 2010-02-03 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 "The premier has made a commitment that once he's through this procedure and he's well enough, he's going to talk about the whole process and share as much detail with you as he's comfortable to do at that time,"

The evasion, assumptions and hand waving at the time ought to be very entertaining.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-03 11:40|| 2010-02-03 11:40|| Front Page Top

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