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Originally Posted by Mutt
These are hopeless psychiatric cases, absolutely hopeless, every city has them, go to downtown Vancouver and Toronto, you'll find homeless men, most of them mentally ill, many schizophrenic.
Show me them dumping cancer patients and I'll be interested. Of course in Canada it takes up to 6 months to begin cancer treatments after diagnosis.
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Well, if it was the schizophrenic patients doing it themselves I would understand... But it's people with real jobs with no mental illness who are making these decisions. I don't think it should matter what type of patient it is...
You're right about it taking too long to start treatment, according to this article:
http://www.mississauga.com/news/arti...to-start-chemo
"While the Cancer System Quality Index report released yesterday lauds the system for its improvements in wait times, the numbers show not a single hospital met the provincial target of 85 per cent of patients beginning chemotherapy treatment within 28 days of receiving a consultation."
The source:
http://www.csqi.on.ca/