2pp, Dec 01, 2009, "Surgery when you need it", Van Sun
Dave Jenkins
3107 Tanglewood Way
Nanaimo, BC, V9T 5A5
250 - 729 0545
Dec 01, 2009
Re; The Editorial Page, Nov 28, 2009. “Surgery when you need it”, Norman Taggart, Coquitlam.
(Vancouver Sun)
First disc operation at 20, L4-5, at 30, L3-4, last May at 60, L2-3. It took the Nanaimo Hospital 21days to send me a letter that informed me I had to wait 4 months for an MRI then a 2 year wait for surgery. It has not responded as to why it took so long to write the letter little lone the wait. I was told I would loose control of my lower bowels if I did not have surgery immediately. Why should I be permanently damaged due to bureaucratic incompetence. Within the week Comox Valley MRI did the MRI at $875, a Radiologist read it the next day and forwarded it to Specialist Referral Clinic. I traveled to SRC for a consult with a Neurosurgeon, $750, who offered to operate, with an overnight stay, $8570. I was operated on Fri 8 AM, was walking at 3 PM and was on the road home Sat, 7 AM. All done last May and in less than 14 days. No wonder the Min of Health and the hospital have not responded to me.
Why is there a lack of funding for such needed surgery? How much is it really? No one works on this question. Why?
Lets stay within the medical system demands. My Human Rights Complaint of 2004 changed who pays for the Driver's Medical Examination that disabled drivers must pay for in order to drive. I have type 2 diabetics and am required to endure the DME once every five years for a Private license. The Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles made this Policy change due to my complaint, now our tax dollars pay for this exam. The Five Points of Engagement, points all successful processes work through, concerning this are that the DME Policy concerning diabetic drivers has not been legally proved to be needed, that the DME can do what it is alleged to be able to do, the consequences of the policy, the intervention, are not acknowledged, there has not been any Good proved to come from the policy, and in the five year period of the DME I visit the doctor 20 times compared to the one forced visit by the OSMV. So, why are diabetics forced to comply when they visit the doctor 20 - 1 for diabetic care? Why are our taxes used for a medical expense that has not fulfilled the above five points of engagement? The M of H works through these points when it attends to the publics needs, why not the OSMV demands and other gov't demands upon the health care system.
My operation cost about $10 000 with 2 hotel nights and ferries. According to OSMV figures on diabetes there are about 60 000 diabetics monitored every year. 60 000 x $75(fee paid to doctors) = $4 500 000 for the DME. There are about 165 people waiting for back surgery. 165 x $10 000 = $1 650 000. My point is our tax dollars are used to pay for something that is not legally proved to be needed, cannot do want it is alleged to be able to do, and has not been proved to offer any Good. It harms the medical system and those that need it, the reason the OSMV offered the out of court settlement. I want change so why not begin with change. So, just for type 2 drivers the misdirected tax dollars would pay for all those waiting for surgery and money left over to buy MRI's and operators. The OSMV supposedly manages over 100 medical conditions. If the OSMV has not justified the diabetic policy which the Charter, the Human Rights Code, and the Motor Vehicle Act demands what does this inform the public about the other 100 or so medical conditions the OSMV supposedly manages?
There are 2 users of the medical system, the public and government. If the OSMV does not publicly inform about their demands, and if the demands are not bona fide, legal, and offer Good, as my surgery was, then the demands are not managed and funded. How many other gov't demands upon the health care system are not acknowledged therefore not managed and funded? How many demands are duplicate, or 20 - 1 as mine is?
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A Review to make sense of the above
I know the above is longer than asked for but my Human Rights Complaint is complicated with many players, with charade within charade, and has played out for seven years now. A review is needed for context and proof that my thinking, as the Human Rights Tribunal states, is sound, it is not without merit and value.
Reader, my first Human Rights Tribunal discrimination complaint was #1954 but you will not find it written up as the OSMV offered to settle out of Hearing after I said I would go to hearing. I wanted change and change was offered. Why not see where it would take me as a diabetic, taxpayer, and citizen with Rights. They broke the settlement agreement by not fulfilling their commitment to a Draft of the diabetic policy. There really was no policy to begin with. The OSMV and the Attorney General's Supervising lawyer as well as their hired counsel from Heenan Blaikie played a very silly charade to pretend they had renewed or made an amendment to it. I caught them at this. It again established the OSMV would do anything to protect itself from it wrongs. It also again established the contempt the OSMV has for the public and law. I did receive a Draft of the diabetic policy to Be, not a review of an existing policy. I deconstructed it for what it is, full of hate, prejudice, fear and loathing, misinformation, misleading information, disgust, and contempt. I received a so called policy paper, and surprisingly another Draft, which is Confidential, so I cannot offer comment upon it. But after sufficient time I lodged another Discrimination Complaint as I was allowed to do. This proved my point of discrimination as all along the OSVM has misled the public into believing the policy was legally justified. Which would mean the OSMV would use this to justify the horrific consequences of the policy. They are not. Deliberate harm is not acceptable. That is why they changed the policy and wanted my complaint out of public view. The corruption surrounding this policy is indeed interesting. That was in Nov 2006. No policy yet. Don't forget this Policy is supposed to be just a tweaking of an existing bona fide, legal, policy justified with scientific documents obtained with Permission from the authors and owners of the journals or book or papers.
My second HRT discrimination complaint was #5699 and is written up by the HRT. I lost the Representative complaint due to a Timeline protection clause not for lack of value or merit. I took me a long time to understand what the OMSM had done. Understood to late. Like my understanding of the Min of Health and its demands of the five points of engagement for the public's demands but its lack of demand the OSMV fulfill the same. This defines discrimination. But my understanding of this came to late to lodge a discrimination complaint. Why should my tax dollars be used for a medical policy that is not justified forcing me to pay for health care that is really needed, justified, and offers Good.
My third HRT discrimination complaint was #5791. The HRT decided to give the OSMV more time to complete the Policy on drivers. This is beyond me as the OSMV has had since 1982 the Charter, 1996 the MVA revision and the HR Code since before the Charter.
Reader, the OSMV presented 174 scientific documents to support their argument, done out of view of the Public. However, there were no Permission Forms for Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Intent of Use, as the OSMV web page demands as does your paper. I confronted this theft within my Response to their Response to Complaint. They then lied and said they did not really know the scope of the complaint, therefore the large number of research articles. Done to deflect the part about theft of Journal material. I caught them in that lie also. The HRT did not address this theft and lie. So, it seems I need to wait until the complete Policy on Driving is completed. In the meantime the policy has not been legally justified and the killing and maiming of visitors to the Overcrowded Emerge continues as it comes from the illegal demands upon doctors which are forced to fill out useless forms.
And you wonder why the OSMV stole science, lied about it when caught, and have not offered a drivers Policy.
This really is a nasty can of worms I have found myself within. Taggart and Reid Johnson, (missed his letter but I will forward this and my last mailing concerning my back, diabetes, and the theft to his organization) know there is something wrong but not having diabetes, and not having been labeled as a killer by government, and not having needed a back operation, they have not made the connections to the events. Everyone seems to make points but do not make connections, to see the Wholeness.
Reader, would you have believed the diabetic policy had not been legally justified as the MVA demands. Think about this; within the Response to my first HRT complaint the OSMV had an A G lawyer paraphrase three statutes that they used to justify the policy and the Superintendents power. Giving the statutes different meaning than what they actually have. Readers of the statutes are mislead, deliberately mislead. So, right from the beginning in 2004 I knew there was something desperately wrong with the diabetic policy and those that are running and supporting it. Lawyers do not make mistakes concerning paraphrasing statutes, not four times for three statutes. It is called Corruption.
Also, when a senior civil servant responded to my inquiry, 2002-2004, he wrote that “most importantly the policy saves lives”. Reader, “what does this say to you?” I informs you that diabetic drivers are killers and the policy decreases that killing. It is a lie but coming from gov't so it must be true and researched just like the policy. And covertly, it instructs me that the policy will continue whether justified or not.
With this I absolutely knew I was being confronted by corrupt people, not only a corrupt policy. One does not write back to such an idiot. His senior wrote back that the statement was appropriate. It isn't. I am not a killer. No proof was offered to justify his view or written statement. I have not found a study (s) proving that diabetic drivers are killing more than non-diabetic drivers; don't forget the policy is based upon a believed difference in driver mishaps between non-diabetic and type 2 drivers.
Reader, writing or saying that someone is a killer is the worst thing one can say about another human. It means that I am and will take your Right to Life away. And this is from government. This means I am dealing with monsters. I have time to deal with monsters that turn me into a pariah, the Other. I am not the monster they are. They should have put the policy on hold when I first confronted them about the illegality and its consequences during my initial inquiry of 2002-04. How many people and kids have been needlessly killed and maimed in overcrowded emergency facilities? Enough that emerge doctors call press conferences. Why is it that the press does not follow up to discover what I have? How many people waiting for surgery have been maimed or did waiting for surgery? How much pain has been endured?
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Reader, I do not believe you will publish this due to the controversy and corruption concerning the policy and its consequences. I believe the killing and maiming as a result of the policy is worse than the Pig Farm Killings.
Lets review
I have been inquiring since 2002, seven years. Lets use only one unexpected and unexplained death in emerge due to overcrowding? Times the 10 busiest hospitals, those that experience overcrowding. That's 10 a year, times 7 years, 70 deaths.
However, do you really believe Emerge doctors call Press conferences for one unexplained and unexpected death a year? A month? A week? You are not allowed to be this naïve.
It is less than a week isn't it. So, at one a week that is more than 50 a year per hospital, times 10 hospitals, equals 500 plus unexpected and unexplained deaths, other than the doctor suggesting Overcrowding and the underfunding of that overcrowding. And you wonder why government does not respond to questions about the consequences, why the OSMV wanted to settle out of court, why they stole research, why they lied about that act, and why the Supervising lawyer for the Attorney Generals office manages my complaints and letters. And they have hired Heenan Blaikie as counsel. A lawyer who used to work for the BC HRT. All using our tax dollars to support an illegal social policy with horrific consequences.
Reader, you know the deaths are greater than the deaths our troops have experienced in Afghanistan.
And this is just for BC. What happens when we look at Canada. The killing and maiming is just a Slaughter.
Reader, Taggart, Johnson, and the public need to know what I have experienced and what the OSMV and the civil service are really doing. Don't ever forget I have a co-authored letter from the Min of Health and the OSMV informing me that the policy is only based upon some civil servants or someones' “view” of diabetes, that there never has been any scientific documentation to justify the policy, and that both entities know of the harm of the policy. (The gov't does not write things like this anymore.) (The harm is not just long doctor wait times due to mandatory form completion but the unexpected and unexplained deaths in emerge.) The doctor who wrote this co-authored, co-ministry, letter soon departed the Min of Health, Dr. Ballard I believe. I wonder if it was because she told the truth before the monsters understood what she had written and was subsequently forced to leave. I believe she is now a senior assistant to the Mayor of Vancouver.
Reader, when I read letters such as you have printed I need to write even believing nothing will be done. I never know what is going on behind the scene such as happened with the policy change.
I will continue to write and inform because what is going on is corrupt and the health care system is worth the work. Diabetes is worth the work. I believe you had a insert last week about diabetes. If it wasn't for people like me there would not be change and you would not have had the guts to write about those fat, obese, needle using killers. Times are changing for the better and those anti-diabetics need to be taken to task. Corrupt civil servants need to be taken to task. The Gomery Commission also demanded civil servants be held accountable. Why hasn't the press demanded this of civil servants concerning this illegal policy and the slaughter? Too horrific? It is only going to worsen as diabetes increases.
Imagine what the OSMV saw in my letters to change policy? How extensive is the slaughter?
Not to be arrogant or rude but how many of your articles have actually changed policy? And done before any court proceedings? And you have resources. A policy change due to some unknown diabetics Human Rights Complaint. Just another charade that the civil service is changing policy dispensing good, when in reality the gov't is just trying to hide what it is doing. In reality, to the public, it just adds to the wrongness that the disabled are a burden upon society. Change which allows for procrastination and stonewalling with the promise of a Policy, which they have not done. How much longer now they know I will confront them again with Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Intent of Use permission. I informed as many Journals as possible so maybe they will confront the OSMV about the earlier theft and the consequences of the policy if they are asked for Permission to use the Journals scientific articles.
Reader, the public would love the story. The corruption both in gov't and the civil service. The 1 in 10 of the populace that is diabetic, more so when all disabled are included, knowing that they are not the pariah or the Other the gov't paints them as, as it was some corrupt civil servants twisted view of needle users and an unseen disease, only based upon fear and loathing of the unknown. And that the medical system really does work except for un-acknowledged gov't demands which therefore are not managed and funded. That the use of tax dollars for something useless instead of bona medical surgical demands is not acceptable. This would also defend the universal health care system against the nay sayers and those that are pushing for a dual system or only a pay for use system as in the USA.
The horror of this policy and the corruption is not beyond your mandate of the Press to inform. When people are afraid of such things it really is your duty or obligation to inquire.
What will happen when diabetes becomes 1 in 4? What will the killing and maiming be like then?
Dave Jenkins

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