Message #156

[GordMay]

MORE BALDERDASH!!! 
You really don't further your cause, whatever that might be, by reproducing such patently false & foolish propaganda.

Further to: The actress Natasha Richardson died, after falling, while skiing in Canada. It took 8 hours to drive her to a hospital. If Canada had our healthcare she might be alive today. In the United States, we have medical evacuation helicopters that would have gotten her to the hospital in 30 minutes.



In fact, it took 20 minutes to drive her hospital.
In fact, Richardson was eventually flown by JET, from Montreal to New York city.   
In fact, Richardson declined treatment at the time of her accident.

On Monday, March 16 Richardson took a tumble on a beginner's hill at Mont Tremblant ski resort in Quebec. Feeling fine*, Richardson joked about the fall with a ski instructor who immediately came to her rescue. An ambulance was requested for Richardson after she  first fell; but when it arrived, the emergency workers were told they weren't needed.

"They never saw the patient," Yves  Coderre said,  director of operations whose company, Ambulances Radisson, serves Mont Tremblant. "So they turned around."

One hour after her fall Richardson was rushed to the Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Ste-Agathe, Que. (about 20 minutes from the resort) after complaining of a headache. She was later transferred to Montreal's Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur.

Husband Liam Neeson flew from the Toronto set of Atom Egoyan's new film "Chloe" to join his wife. Rumours swirled that Richardson was on life support and brain dead. Other reports suggested Richardson was suffering from swelling of the brain.

On Tuesday, March 17 Neeson whisked his wife to a private jet waiting at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport at approximately 12:30 p.m. Richardson was airlifted to the United States. Unconfirmed reports at the time suggested that the Irish actor was taking Richardson to New York to spend her last hours with her family.

* Victims of head trauma can often make the potentially fatal mistake of thinking they are OK. When you have a head trauma you can bleed. It can deteriorate in a few hours or a few days.
 his wife. Rumours swirled that Richardson was on life support and brain dead. Other reports suggested Richardson was suffering from swelling of the brain.