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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Paul is right—EVERYTHING they told us is a lie, as I outlined in this poem:

• “Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem)

I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Pierre for showing and talking about Tess Lawrie’s heartrending reading of my poem during his Jimmy Dore interview:

• “Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice (Video)” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem-57a)

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ForestDi56's avatar

Your group continues to be very informative and I’m grateful. One thing I don’t see being mentioned, yet, but suspect will become an issue in the near future is the inundation by medical facilities of new patients seeking help with new health issues that docs don’t quite know what to do about or don’t respond to traditional protocols. I have a concussion with lingering issues so not at all COVID or jab related. I’m pretty good at managing things on my own as I’m a retired alternative practitioner (not so retired, these days). But some things still require conventional medical help. This appears to be one of them and it also looks like I’m out of luck. I finally got a referral to see a neurology department doc to try to get some new brain and neck scans. The referral kept getting lost in what turns out to be a huge backlog in the system. We have been told they currently have 800 new patients with up to 60 new calls coming in per day. Montana only has a population of 1.1 million with about 5 moderately-sized cities/towns so medical facilities are limited. We were also told that out of all of the hospitals in the state that have neurologists, all but two - the one an hour from us and Billings (8 hours away) have closed their doors to anymore new patients as they are all overwhelmed. And these two will be turning folks away in the not-too-distant future. Leaving patients either in the lurch or needing to drive to Spokane or other out-of-state facilities. Which may also be filling up. I got an appointment for July and put on a cancellation list which they ignore in favor of people who just call in every day and ask. We were told that outright.

Will be looking at other alternatives in the meantime and hope to give over that spot to someone else. I hear from some other friends that our cardio units are also filling up. But my heart hurts for these folks who, even if they get in front of a doc, may not be helped because the symptoms don’t fall into a dutiful checklist on the computer which causes inadequate help or referrals to psychiatrists or “sorry, we don’t know what is wrong so we can’t help you.” Because they cannot or will not look at the causative agent and cannot or will not knock on the doors of folks like you to get help in treating these folks, so many people are going to be suffering. I’m less worried for myself as I will find my own way but my heart hurts for the others who will feel trapped and unable to get help.

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