• Queue-jumping inquiry hears from experts - Calgary - CBC News
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2013/02/26/calgary-queue-jump-inquiry.html

    Peut-on court-circuiter les files d’attentes dans le système de santé. Une commission d’experts en débat dans l’Alberta.

    Experts discussed the ethics of queue-jumping as the inquiry into Alberta’s health-care system continued Tuesday.

    The experts will help the Health Services Preferential Access Inquiry look at what constitutes queue-jumping and whether preferential access can ever be justified.

    (…)

    While the panelists agreed people should be treated based on medical need, they also discussed scenarios that would raise ethical issues, such as whether a child should get treated before an elderly person, if the prime minister should get priority in an emergency room, or if Workers’ Compensation Board claimants should get priority treatment.

    Il semble qu’il y ait dans la liste des questions dont on ne comprenne même pas le sens en France…

    (Par ailleurs, le Worker’s Compensation Board est l’organisme qui traite des accidents du travail au Canada.)

    Sinon…

    Some health care professionals who could help reduce waiting lists are contributing to the problem, she said.

    par exemple :

    On Monday, the inquiry heard testimony that patients of Dr. Ron Bridges, founder of the Forzani and MacPhail Colon Cancer Screening Centre, were fast-tracked for treatments at that clinic and for procedures at the Foothills Medical Centre.

    Bridges told the inquiry he had no idea his patients were getting special treatment.

    Non ? MES patients passent devant les autres dans MA clinique. Ah, ben ça alors !…