{"id":3776,"date":"2013-10-28T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2013-10-29T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T00:54:22","slug":"socialized-healthcare-rodents-eating-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/28\/socialized-healthcare-rodents-eating-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialized Healthcare: Rodents Eating Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/classicalvalues.com\/2013\/10\/reducing-the-cost-of-healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\">quality<\/a> of socialized medicine is yet again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgarysun.com\/2013\/09\/09\/patient-in-long-term-care-has-face-nibbled-by-mice\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrated<\/a> in Canada:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A patient immobilized in bed, waking up to find mice eating her face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It has the makings of a health-care horror story \u2014 Friends of Medicare says the night-time ravaging by rodents left a Lethbridge senior nursing minor wounds to her face. And it could have been so much worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;She\u2019s immobile \u2014 she couldn\u2019t even wake up and shoo these things away,&#8217; said Sandra Azocar, executive director of the health-care advocacy group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3777\" title=\"Meanwhile in Canada\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Face_Eating_Rat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Face_Eating_Rat.jpg 314w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Face_Eating_Rat-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Isn&#8217;t just <em>wonderful<\/em> when altruism is the only thing standing between your health and a swarm of face-eating rodents?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0u8teXR8VE4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AiGss1rOnBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g09gOh2qwug\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Update<\/strong>: A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/report-says-no-evidence-of-mice-biting-at-lethbridge-care-home-1.2126318\"target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> contracted by Alberta Health (who ran the nursing home) has indicated that even through a nest of rats was found and there was a bedbug problem, the nursing facility was deemed to be still &#8220;sufficient.&#8221;  The report also indicated that two doctors found that the facial wounds were not caused by mice, but that they had &#8220;found a different reason for the wounds&#8221;; the explanation for the wounds was censored.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The quality of socialized medicine is yet again demonstrated in Canada: &#8220;A patient immobilized in bed, waking up to find mice eating her face. &#8220;It has the makings of a health-care horror story \u2014 Friends of Medicare says the night-time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/28\/socialized-healthcare-rodents-eating-your-face\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[22,24,42],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-fail","tag-leviathan","tag-mood-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}