Re: escape from kashechewan


fresh~horses wrote:

> > QUOTE
> > "Stories abound of Canadians going to extreme measures in order to gain
> > access to medical technology. For example, several years ago an
> > enterprising hospital in Guelph, Ontario, decided to allow animals
> > needing CT scans to enter the hospital in the middle of the night -
> > charging pet owners C$300 apiece. There is nothing necessarily wrong
> > with that except that thousands of people in Ontario were waiting up to
> > three months for an appointment on the same machine.
>
> Can we have a cite for this urban legend? Make it good oh thou summoner
> of Tennyson and other flowery whimsey.

COMMENT:

The cite I have is Canadian Press "Humans Wait in Pain, Dogs Don't,"
June 14, 1991. But you're better at looking up such things than I am.
It is the Canadian Press, you know, and might be yellow journalism.

SBH

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