All too typical, that.

Critical Care Without Consent

Rob Stein - Washington Post Staff Writer - Sunday, May 27, 2007: "The [US] federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting patients' permission."

Wait, it gets worse...

"The $50 million, five-year project, which will involve more than 20,000 patients in 11 sites in the United States and CANADA, is designed to improve treatment after car accidents, shootings, cardiac arrest and other emergencies."

Now you can start to worry...

"The studies are being conducted by the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, a network of medical centers that do research in Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Dallas, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Toronto and Ottawa, and in Iowa and BRITISH COLUMBIA."

Read the whole article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/AR2007052600982.html?sub=new

health care might be a big concern, but it doesnt move votes. The only issue that moves votes right now is the envirionment. Aboriginal relations helps people see that Campbell has reformed. No one believes that anyone can fix the health care system, even if it is a big concern for them.

I think yeah, right is about the right response to yeah right. The idea that the environment is an issue that actually moves people from one party to another is as yet unproven. Health care has been a vote determining issue in many elections over the past forty or fifty years.

As for Campbell's new, kindler and gentler line towards Indian tribes and nations, that hasn't been tested in a general election. When it is, it will be interesting to see if some of the federal Reform voters who supported the BC Liberals in 2001 and 2005 decide to stay home. It's hard to pitch in two elections to an anti-Aboriginal backlash vote, and then reverse engines and successfully appeal to more liberal and progressive voters in the very next contest.

People are frustrated by persistent wait time problems and games around what is and is not "elective" surgeries. They very definitely do believe the problem can be fixed if the administrative problems are solved and if doctors are prevented from playing shell games that are designed to point suffering patients towards private clinics.

"As for Campbell's new, kindler and gentler line towards Indian tribes and nations, that hasn't been tested in a general election."

Indian tribes and nations, Budd?

The correct usuage is "First Nations" or
First Nations Peoples" "Indian" is Murrican usage.

Mahsie.