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| - You have a right to be very afraid of the Toronto Western hospital!
Saturday morning my partner and I were bullied, threatened and traumatized by Toronto Western hospitals "Security Force". Personal medical information was demanded from us before the facilitys "guard" would get someone to help us. Two hundred and eighty five counts of "patient information leaks in the last eighteen months" and the hospital has no idea how this is happening? We were told that if we didn't "comply" with the guards request we would be escorted off of the property, denied medical attention, and not allowed back to the hopital "ever". At this point let me remind you that a Toronto hospital has already had to settle a two point one million dollar law suit because a guard attacked a visitor and broke three of that persons ribs and their arm. How many people have to get hurt before some action is taken. This happened to us four days ago and I am still shaken.
Is this a result of going to Texas to get the new CEO for the UHN? Do we need to remind Pistol Pete Pisters and his rootin tootin board of directors that this is not the wild wild west? Let me also remind people that these "security guards" are not there to help the sick or the injured in any way. Full body armour, handcuffs, a skull crushing "flashlight" carried during bright daylight hours? These tools are to be used on "you" the public. Who else are they going to use them on? Doctors? Nurses? Think about it! They work for the hospital and its board of directors, NOT YOU!
Amazingly, the people we encountered once inside the hospital were "excellent"! Absolutely first rate and very impressive, nurses, doctors, the entire staff was caring, courteous, professional and a credit to medicine. I cannot say enough great things about them.
So maybe we can ask Dr Peter Pisters to "tone down", "reel in" or at least "get a handle" on this situation before someone else is put in phyisical or emotional distress. It will be interesting to see if anything is done to resolve this issue. All you have to do is drive by the Western hospital on Bathurst street and see if S.W.A.T is still on patrol.
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