A woman who says she was repeatedly denied adequate emergency care last spring is blasting the Newfoundland and Labrador health-care system, saying she’s been left psychologically scarred after being told several times that her gangrenous appendix was simply anxiety or constipation.
Joy Spence, 21, said she visited emergency departments at two hospitals in St. John’s over the course of nearly two weeks this May.
What began as weakness and abdominal pain on her right side quickly deteriorated into blacking out from the agony in her torso.
My gf complained of gal bladder like issues for over a year before a doctor finally stopped telling her it was heartburn and found that it was an inflamed gal bladder. Healthcare in Canada has gone to shit.
A friend of mine moved here from India during covid and told me: