Mirabel Base AirMedic air ambulance crew members (L-R) Jean-Sebastien Schick, Josee Carrier and Bruno Di Tomasso carry fellow flight nurse Anne-Marie Beaulieu during a rescue simulation in 2007. Dr. Michael Churchill-Smith says Montreal needs to integrate medivac service with hospitals. Photograph by: Dave Sidaway, Gazette file photoFrom The Montreal Gazette:
There are 200 to 250 “Natasha Richardson” cases annually in Quebec, a leading medical aviation and trauma expert said yesterday.
“We’re talking about people who died, or who survived with traumatic brain injury,” said Dr. Michael Churchill-Smith, director of professional services at the Montreal General Hospital.
“And the state will pay for them forever,” he said of those victims who remain in comas or paralyzed.
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