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justto smokers but tothose thou- beihgla fraudrthe epa avoided real scientific sandyof people who die every vear from can by hbhsmokers too bad they will just jbfposuie to ets ignoring the oilier 18 perish wthput knowing what caused their studieslthat showed no such link deaths unless of course they lived with a telephone 905 2942200 416 7987624 fax 905 2941538 email newsroomeconsuncom dave teetzel my healthcare experience says there might be a crisis w n i s r qsi we r wms wlft 4- w pomoowroldlnusfinduaea ifaaynearphs5nber s al stoufmlle tribune publistiedeveythursjay saturday oneotthe metrolandprfnunfcblishlngand v oiflbuting ltd soup of newspapeisf which includes the ajavpictertig news advertiser alllston heraldcourier barrieadvance barrys bay this week bolton enterprise brampton guardian burlington shopping news burlington u vpostclvrentjtolllngiwasagaicwnertlon eastyoii mirror erin advocatecountiy routes etobicote pguardian flarnboroughpost georgetown independenvacton free press kingston this weeic unbsay this wsek y midland penetarigulstiene mirror milton canadian champion milton shopping news mississauga news newmarket- jj fs aurora georgjna era banner northurpberiand news north york minor oakvtlle beaver oakvilte shopping news 4 orilllatodayoshawawhluiyclaringtonftrtrtriysthlsweekftteiboroughthis richmond- hat me worry that was the motto of mad magazine coverboy alfred e newman not former saskatchewan premier arid father of medicare tommy douglas but that in a nutshell is the conclu sion of a report on the healthcare sys tem issued by a research institute with douglas name on it it says there is no crisis in health care only a conspiracy between special inter ests that would benefitfrom a twotier system and of course the media but its not as a member of the media that i dispute the report its as a con sumer last thursday i had to rush my wifeto the emergency ward at markham stouffville hospital- 1 dont believe our experience was any worse than anyone elses in that hospital in fact it was considerably better than many as sharon at least had a bed in an examining room while many other patients were lying in the hallway but what i saw and heard was a sys tem irinriing under strain it started in admissions where as i was parking the car mywife was told to stand in line and wait to be processed i walkedinto the middle of a scene sharon was doubled over with pain and apparently whoever had been at the desk hadtaken little notice the woman in front of us god bless her demanded thatsomeone get a wheel- chair while i went through the paperwork formalities a process that was accel- erated because the same kind woman let me go ahead of her sharon was deposited in a dirty unmade bed- it took two horns before a frazzled nurse even glariced in our general direc- tiontand five hours before weleft the hospital but my purpose is not to com- plain i believe most of the peopleat that hospital werefdoing their best with the situation at hand- j t nowmedmmydouglas research institute implied vthese conditions are j theresuirofdoctbre trying to createa crisis to bring about more privatization- but it jives withtliecbmmenls macie v by marilyn playter an emergency nursv at southlake regional healtii centrevin we need more space we need more therhealthicaresystemlshouldlbea universally accessibleand notfortprofet tl tharfl reahty evervdavshould have the nght to xwj y domt out thefacts without navmer some s