I'm Eating My Cookie...

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some new protocols... like building new (for profit) ltc facilities, and closing the old one here where i live. net number of new beds (where the wait list to get into ltc is 1-2 years long) zero.

but dr. felix soibelman said putting these protocols in place will still be challenging. soibelman, the president-elect of the emergency medicine section for the alberta medical association, used an analogy to describe the situation.

"we're trying to get a size 13 foot into a size 8 shoe and it's going to be very uncomfortable for awhile until we get maybe we get a size 12 shoe or size 13 shoe," he said.

"so that would be establishing the long-term care capacity that we're so desperately asking for."

read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/11/19/edmonton-er-meeting-new-protocols.html#ixzz15mzzijth

duckett's response: "

we have issued a media advisory ... isn't it ridiculous that the media are not prepared to go to the media scrum and i'm eating my cookie," duckett said as he strode down the street.

"did you hear what i just said?" he replied when another reporter tried again to ask for reaction. "i said, "i'm eating my cookie.'"

is this the new version of "let them eat cake"? lol:lol2:

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
"did you hear what i just said?" he replied when another reporter tried again to ask for reaction. "i said, "i'm eating my cookie.'"

is this the new version of "let them eat cake"? lol:lol2:

i love it!!!!!!!

it sure sounds like it, doesn't it?

meanwhile back at the ranch, we played musical syringe pumps all night because there aren't enough to go around...

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Specializes in MPH Student Fall/14, Emergency, Research.

Someone quoted that on the UNA facebook page. This puts it in context. What a maroon :uhoh3:

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Sooo, the next time the family at the desk is asking a question we can eat our cookies uninterupted?

The man sounded like an arrogant, idiot with the way he kept saying "coo-key".

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I think he really meant, "I don't want to answer your question anyway, so one excuse is just as good as another." I dont think it will work for those that actually have to work for a living.

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I think he really meant, "I don't want to answer your question anyway, so one excuse is just as good as another." I dont think it will work for those that actually have to work for a living.

We KNOW that. The man is an arrogant kangaroo dropping. If you read older thread relating to nursing in Alberta, you will understand how loathed Duckiepoo really is.

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Specializes in geriatrics.

"arrogant kangaroo dropping"

hahahahhaha, i learned something new

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holy cow, if this wasn't so sad, it would be laughable.

they've fired from caucus dr.raj sherman, the former er doctor who is also an mla, *or was an mla for the tory caucus* for his criticism of his parties' handling of the er crisis, and for his criticism of the minister of health, liepert.

they're keeping duckett, and firing an er doctor who is actually aware and in touch and advocating both for patients and his constituents in the middle of an er crisis. only in alberta.

cbc news - edmonton - alta. mla kicked from caucus over er remarks

"it puts a real chill on all of those who would speak against what this premier and this government and this health minister, in particular, are doing," said liberal leader david swann-who, like sherman-is a medical doctor.

ya think? say nothing, eat cookies. die waiting for a bed in the er, throw the elderly in the streets when there are simply no ltc beds, or beds anywhere for that matter.

cookies for all. :devil:

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Specializes in MPH Student Fall/14, Emergency, Research.

A radio station was taking comments on the whole cookie ordeal. It's shocking - SHOCKING - how many people seem to think that Duckett's comment was amusing and how he didn't owe us anything.

I find it sadly hilarious how we completely overlook that this man was brought in from another country to fix our health care system :lol2:, and we pay him $700k a year or whatever of our money, and he is just so flip about our legitimate concerns.

Oh, and throw out the dissenters to shut them up. It's Klein all over again.

Infuriating.

ETA: Email your support to Dr. Sherman. [email protected]

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Clearly those are people who've been fortunate to never have an emergent, or chronic, health concern. Any Albertan who has had to wait 2 years for a new hip, or 8 hours in Emerg for a Dr's note so their child can go back to daycare (because their "family doctor" is booking appointments 3 weeks out), or 1 year for a colonoscopy, etc, etc would NOT find Duckett in any way amusing.

That's Alberta though, and it's why the Liberals cannot gain seats. Alberta - every man/woman for himself. "If it's not my problem, it's not my problem".

I don't know that I want to stay in this province to practice nursing after I graduate. Very sad.

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Dr. Sherman is still working in the ER. Down at the NECHC. He committed to pulling a Sunday shift there while serving as a MLA.

I've never understood why the people of this province keep voting Conservative and then moan constantly about how lousy they treat the "average Henry and Martha" (where in hades did Ralph pick those names).

Steady Eddie visited a relative on one our units a while back. Complete with security detail. We never did find out if he was afraid of the patients, their visitors or the staff. Or wait a minute, maybe they were there to protect the healthcare system from random slash attacks...

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I am actually afraid the pendulum may swing from "bad" to "worse" with this new Wild Rose party. It seems like it might be even more extreme - for those Albertans who've drummed up some dissatisfaction with the Tories but who aren't bright enough to see through the WR party rhetoric they might not vote Tory again, but Wild Rose instead, and we'll be pushed from the frying pan into the fire.

It's why Alberta is so frustrating. People don't seem to care as long as they have their job, their quad, their yearly vacation to Mexico, etc.

This province seems overpopulated with uneducated, ambivalent people who make $100,000 a year working in the patch and who really don't give a crap about anything except their next paycheque and next toy.

I realize that may sound offensive, I'm just really frustrated right now.

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