Alberta NEEDS a coherent Minimal Level of Care directive for patients

  My experience at the University of Alberta Hospital back in March was more than disturbing, but it cemented the idea in my mind about the severe need for a Patients Bill of Rights in Alberta.
 If you look at some of the Western States in the United States it is becoming common practice for the State Governments to legislate a "Minimal Level of Care" that patients can expect when patients end up visiting major Trauma Centers in their individual State run Hospitals. The idea behind such bills is so that ALL patients visiting Trauma Centers will receive the SAME level of care  as Cops, Firemen and Government Workers. These are legislative actions taken to ensure that ALL patients whether they are walk-in or arrive via ambulance to major Trauma Centers receive exactly the SAME level of care as everybody else. There is NO special treatment for Government connected officials or first responders, these measures ensure that there is NO discrimination when it comes to patient care for people who are in urgent need of medical care.
 The situation that I encountered with Dr. Naismith at the U of A Hospital was truly disturbing stuff and it showcases how backward the medical practices are in Alberta and how easily it is for medical staff to discriminate against Seriously Injured Workers for their own fun and demented sense of enjoyment. There is no room for discrimination against Injured Workers because of the Alberta Health Services SECRET CODES that are used to discriminate when delivering care in Alberta Hospitals.

 The premise that patients whom have suffered Spinal Traumas do not QUALIFY for Diagnostic Imaging is patently absurd. The fact that Dr. Naismith utilizes this crazy premise to self justify her discriminatory practices in her own mind is a disturbing revelation of extreme need for a Patients Bill of Rights when patients enter a Hospital in Alberta, this is long overdue. The random practice of allowing ER Doctors to utilize completely Arbitrary thinking relying on whatever preconcieved notions that an individual doctor in an Emergency Room environment has in his mind to deliver care is prejudiced, unethical and reckless behavior on behalf of the hospital involved. There is one more factor at work here, it exposes the Hospital to litigation on behalf of patients who have been unjustly treated in an Alberta Hospital. These are serious problems that have been long standing and that need to be addressed if this province is ever to break free from the 1959 Dark Ages of Medicine that the PC's were running here in Alberta.
Chronic Pain is shutting me down, more to come. Thks for patience.