Blair morgan paralyzed V. crappy canadian healthcare

How does a private company doing a claimed (by someone on the internet) shitty job prove in any way that the canadian health care system is crappy?

I don’t think you need anyone on the internet to tell you that Canada’s heath care system is shitty

That’s a different argument. I’m just saying that you can’t blame the Canadian Health Care system for the result of his accident like the thread starter is trying to.

ah, I got ya

There is a lot wrong with the Canadian health care system, as I constantly hear about from my Canadian coworker who doesn’t know how to shut the fuck up, but none of it is pointed out by this accident.

  1. It is never any governments responsibility to pay for ambulance crews to stand by at events like this. If you want to put on an event where people take physical risks and feel you need response times less than what you get calling 911 it’s your responsibility to contract out for those services.

  2. Building on the above, you get what you pay for when contracting out for these services. It doesn’t concern me that the helmet isn’t removed, but it does concern me that in the picture they are clearly rolling someone with a possible neck injury and no one is holding his head/helmet.

  3. It’s terribly unfortunate to see a talented young person like him with such a severe injury, but it’s about as shocking as Steve Irwin being killed by a wild animal. You assume certain risks in certain professions. He is the person most responsible for his condition, possibly followed a good distance behind by those on site paramedics and the event organizers who hired them.

Eh, it was kind of a miss leading jab at the canadian health care system, I know it has near nothing to do with the training of the emts.

BUT, maybe if the emts or the hospital providing the emts had much higher profits you would have not has seen this happen,due to better training. Maybe we would see a Kevin Evert type situation instead.
It kinda irks me as a fellow racer that it’s possible to have poorly trained emts that are dealing with, what I feel is one of the more risk-taking sports on earth.

the helmet should really stay on. The log roll technique was horrible and could have exasperated the injury, but if you secure the helmet to the backboard and utilize something ridged on either side it acts as its own stabilizer.

i’m impartial about the helmet, if it were me it’d be debatable weather or not i’d take it off or strap it down but rule #1 regardless is support the neck and head no matter what. even if there is no suspicion of neck or back injury. in moving the body you can induce such an injury if something happens while the person is immobilized. i learned that in cub scouts all the way through the slightly more advanced training i received in the military. bunch of clowns…