Poll of 5000 patients in Sask 94% good or excellent responses.

[Swede]

This was just on the local TV news. No links yet.

[Spazito]

1. Is this regarding their access to healthcare, etc?

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[Swede]

3. Access,treatment, stay in hospital, access to doctors.

I heard it again on the radio. This does seem awfully high approval.

[iverglas]

2. nothing at google news yet

(I was curious) -- but found this!

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=8040ee48b17b054a0e58c7e33c85bc68

Psychic Surgeon Charged

News Report, Staff,
Filipino Reporter, Jun 27, 2005

TORONTO — The Filipino “psychic surgeon” who once ministered to film actor and New Age maven Shirley MacLaine has been charged with fraud here in Ontario, police said Wednesday.

... Det. Michael Barsky of the Toronto police said officers seized $6,000 in U.S. and Canadian currency — the proceeds of a single afternoon of healing — after raiding the Scarborough hotel where Orbito and his fellow accused, John Robert Wood, 62, are alleged to have set up treatment sessions.

“Through sleight of hand, he tells them that he’s removed tumors and illnesses from their body,” Barsky said. ...

Debunkers claim practitioners of “psychic surgery” keep a small balloon filled with animal blood inside the palms of their hands, squeezing them just as their hands appear to enter the abdomens of their patients. The tumors and guts they remove, the size of Brazil nuts, are frequently the livers and hearts of chickens.

Orbito also claims to cure blindness by removing a patients’ eyeballs and cleaning them before replacing them in their sockets, other reports say.

... In 1989, Liberal Sen. Hazen Argue of Saskatchewan was accused of helping people receive treatment from Orbito in a Regina hotel.

Wonder what their satisfaction rate was ...

[achtung_circus]

4. This is anecdotal.

One week ago I was at my ENT doctor for ringing in my ears and some hearing loss. One of the differential diagnoses is a 1 in 100,000 chance of a growth on an optic nerve.

Not anything to worry about, he said. Nothing to be done about it even if it was there. NOT cancerous. He referred me for an MRI, just to find out.

Now this is very low priority, in the scheme of things.

I got the call today. My MRI is scheduled for July 7, 2005.

I don't call that excessive waiting time- I'm happy, too.

The horror stories get the attention. Whether they are valid or not seems to get a lot less attention.