“I was terrified for her,” said her husband, Dr. Adam Shehata, a family physician..
“The area she was in was essentially a row of hospital gurneys separated only by curtains with sick patients on either side of her. Her risk of infection was so high and there was nothing I could do to protect her.”
“The area she was in was essentially a row of hospital gurneys separated only by curtains with sick patients on either side of her. Her risk of infection was so high and there was nothing I could do to protect her.”
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André Picard @picardonhealth
This #cancer patient, vulnerable to infection, waited 40 hours in the ER, surrounded by sick patients. It was the most dangerous place she could be — and a worsening reality in Ontario ,by Megan Ogilvy, Kenyon Wallace www.thestar.com/news/canada/... via @thestar.com
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