Nice Security Measures...

In Ontario, 2009 you would seriously think that your medical records should be kept safe... Well let me tell you a quick story...

My son, is awaiting surgery at a Toronto hospital, the surgeon asked me to obtain the post operative report from another hospital where he had surgery a year prior. So I walked into said hospital to the records department and said "Hi, my son had surgery a year ago here and he is in another hospital awaiting a different kind of surgery the surgeon asked me to come get his post op report..." She asked me his name, I gave her the name and within 30 seconds a printout was handed to me. I looked at her and said... "Ummmm do I need to sign anything?" "NOPE!, that's it..."

WTF?

You can bet I'll be sending a message to the Onbudsman of that hospital now...

I also wanted to tell you about Nibbles the rat, we got him around the same time we got Gord... well since the day we brought nibbles home he sneezed and coughed.. WTF we got another patient in the house with respiratory illness? Ok so anyhow waited a few weeks and it wasn't going away so I broke down after my teary eyed son came and told me that if his best friend dies he's gonna feel pretty rotten...

$110.00 later, Nibbles and his bottle of antibiotics are home, I've got pure oxygen piped into the cage "Thankfully that is in large supply in our house" and if he gets worse I'll be working out a way to use my mom's nebilizer to stablize Nibble's breathing...

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps my head needs a shake!

Or perhaps I just care to damn much!

Cheers!