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Submission + - Selfie of Stroke Symptoms Finally Gets Woman Correct Diagnosis

theshowmecanuck writes: Canada's CBC TV reports that a woman suffering from a transient ischemic attack (mini-stroke) was diagnosed by the attending emergency room physician as suffering from stress, given tips on how to manage it and sent home. As she left the hospital she again began suffering the same symptoms in her car. Thinking quick she pulled out her smart phone and started taking a video selfie of herself to show the doctors the classic symptoms of a stroke. She was originally stricken at home and remembering the symptoms of a stroke from a public service announcement, went to the hospital when the symptoms subsided. After the second episode, her quick thinking and video convinced the doctors they were wrong and she was right, and they sent her for the proper diagnostic testing and treatment they should have given in first place. The article has a link to the video she took, but here it is in case, and I know it is unlikely on Slashdot, you don't want to read it.

Comment Re:This ruling .... (Score 1) 112

I was going to move back to Ontario but not after the liberals got a majority government. Especially if you take into account this (here is a synopsis):

Per person, Ontarians currently owe $20,166 (Cdn) compared to $3,844 for Californiansâ"more than 5 times the per capita level of debt. Consequently, Ontarians shoulder much higher debt servicing costs: 9.2% of budget revenues in Ontario are devoted to interest payments compared to 2.8% in California.

People make fun of California and talk about them teetering on bankruptcy. But they look positively peachy compared to California. Granted this is from a right wing think tank, but the truth is the truth. And the new liberal government's budget proposals promise to run 10+ billion dollar deficits per year for the following several years. Ontario is doomed. It is the last place anyone would want to go now.

Comment Re:Please make it a mental one (Score 1, Flamebait) 625

So now being undisciplined is a mental disability. Give me a fucking break. 70 years and more ago, there weren't such a shitload of obese people. Then again their weren't Doritos, Cheezy Poofs, TVs, computers, or game consoles. Kids didn't automatically get cars when they were 16, and most people took the bus or walked. We don't change that much in such a relatively short evolutionary time. If there were a mental disability causing people to be fat now, it would have existing then. Lack of activity and too many calories is the cause, so stop making politically fucking correct excuses.

Comment Re:Not surprising. (Score 2) 378

I actually read the news. No recess from French as Montreal schools to scan playground chatter. You need to stop drinking the cool aide. Free speech is free speech. One of the worst excuses for regulating speech and other civil liberties is "to keep our culture pure." It has slippery slope written all over it.

Comment Re:Not surprising. (Score 2) 378

Any other province a business can put ANY language they want on their signs at any size they want. In Richmond B.C. there are blocks where there are only Chinese signs. In Quebec one is not free to conduct business in the language of your choice, so you are not allowed to put anything except French on the outside of your business and can only put very small non-French words on interior signs (under larger French words). The government forces employees of companies to speak French, and children are not allowed to speak any language except French at school, even at recess. There are no non-French public schools. Can you say NAZI state. Even the world court said it was a violation of fundamental freedoms, and the Quebec separatist government that enacted the law ignored it. Even the Canadian courts said it was unconstitutional and Quebec used the not-withstanding clause to veto that ruling.

Comment Re:War of government against people? (Score 1) 875

Canada does not provide for mental health in any meaningful way. The government talks a good talk but that is it. If you don't have private insurance that covers mental health, you don't get access to anything except family doctors prescribing pills. There are basically no psychologists in the public health system and very, very few psychiatrists such that the only sure way to get access to one is to be hospitalized or committed to an institution. The Canadian health care system does not cover everything. It does not cover dental, nor prescription drugs, nor mental health care, and oddly you often have to pay out of pocket for a podiatrist.

The natural resource sector does not pay for any welfare, any more than any other business does in its taxes.

Seriously, where the heck did you get your information? You must have just made it up on the spot.

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