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Date Posted: 12:14:42 11/05/04 Fri
In reply to:
Robin Hodgson
's message, "i love my wife form the uk" on 20:23:34 10/25/04 Mon
Hi Robin, You have certainly been thru the revolving door of our so called wonderful health care system and our caring professional medical practioners... cough , choke ... All I can suggest is to keep at it and you might be lucky enuff to find a doctor who still cares about his/her patients and will do whatever it takes to relieve some of your pain. One great thing that has come to you is your new wife and companion - you are *Not Alone* and believe me that is something to be thankful for and I wish you all the best ! ... Reg
>I, ROBIN HODGSON , hereby make this Statement of Case
>in connection with my medical condition and my wife’s
>immigration to Canada.
>
>1983
>
>I underwent Entry Medical examination for the Naval
>Reserve with Commander Holland (PMO). It was
>discovered that I had a hernia. This was repaired at
>Camp Hill Hospital. I then completed the Naval Reserve
>program, equivalent to General Military Training Part
>One, which is physically demanding.
>
>1996
>
>I was employed as a heavy duty/industrial cleaner at
>the YWCA. I suffered a hernia while lifting a floor
>polisher, which was diagnosed by Doctor G Stewart of
>the Cole Harbor Family Medical Center. I was referred
>to Doctor Murdoch, who performed this surgery (see
>Dartmouth General Hospital documents.). The surgery
>did not go well as I suffered complications resulting
>in severe pain. The YWCA was not in the Workmen’s
>Compensation program; so I was not entitled to any
>Benefits. I applied to Human Resources Canada for
>benefits and re-training (see letter to Member of
>Parliament and letter from Dr Stewart in relation to
>my ability to continue work as a cleaner. I was
>therefore faced with a career change, obtained a
>student loan and enrolled at McKenzie College in the
>computer animation program.
>
>1998
>
>My condition continued to deteriorate to the stage
>where Doctors Stewart and Murdoch decided that
>corrective surgery was necessary (see Dr Stewart’s
>letter to the School. Also note his statement
>regarding the theory that there are nerves entrapped.
>Also see the documents from the Dartmouth General
>Hospital regarding the operation.) This disrupted my
>school year and forced me to take a supplemental. This
>surgery was not able to solve my pain problem. I found
>my physical capacities severely reduced. For example
>I cannot lift a five-pound bag of potatoes, nor can I
>walk for any great distance; neither can I climb
>stairs. Sitting for in excess of twenty minutes causes
>such pain that I can only find relief by lying down
>for at least an hour. Dr Stewart referred to Dr
>Finlayson in an attempt to control the pain, but to no
>avail. I was then sent to the Pain Clinic (see
>documents attached).
>
>2000
>
>I was seen by the Pain Clinic, and am still waiting to
>hear from them. I did take part in a test for a new
>painkiller which they were researching, but I was
>unaware as to whether I had been given the actual drug
>or the placebo, I decided to stop taking it, for I
>didn’t feel any real significant change. And as far as
>I was aware it was the experimental part of their
>section, of the actual function of the Pain Clinic
>(see documents QE2).
>
>Doctor Kinnear took over Doctor Stewart’s patients,
>when he sold his Practice. I started to see Doctor
>Kinnear as a patient, for Doctor Stewart was my doctor
>before Doctor Kinnear. I tried to explain what was
>going on with my infliction, she didn't seem receptive
>to what I was telling her. On 19th December 2000, I
>had an appointment with Doctor Kinnear, when I told
>her about the pain and the incision leaking and she
>remarked to me "I think you think about it too much"
>and did not examine me. She suggested that I see a
>psychologist from mental health. I asked her to get
>back to me regarding this, but she never did. So I
>started to look for another Doctor, since I had lost
>faith in Doctor Kinnear.
>
>2001
>
>I started seeing Doctor Michalik at the Water View
>Health Center in approximately January 2001. Again I
>tried explaining what was going on with me. He
>appeared not to listen to a single thing I had told
>him. He also thought I should see a psychologist
>pending his findings. I had an opportunity in April of
>2001 to go up to Toronto to see my brother and his
>family, as they were getting ready to move to
>Singapore.
>
>I arrived before nine o’clock on 17th April 2001 at
>the Shouldice Hospital to see one of the doctors.
>They kindly allowed me even without an appointment.
>They did find something wrong.
>
>I told the doctors with whom I spoke what had been
>going on with the doctors here, as well the trapped
>nerves discovered by Doctor Stewart. The doctors that
>examined me did say, “There is nothing we can do about
>your old pain”. I had to set up a date for another
>operation on 8th July. (see Shouldice report).
>
>When I came back from Ontario I visited the Pain
>Clinic again and showed them the report from
>Shouldice. They were argumentative. My father, Mike
>Hodgson, said that the medical community had let me
>down, and the person said “I know, I know”.
>
>I visited Doctor Michalik on 22nd April at
>approximately 11:25. It was short notice. I did
>raise a concern about trying to get an antibiotic, in
>case of infection, because of the leaking it had been
>doing in the past, but he did agree even after I had
>evidence there was some thing wrong, I showed him the
>document from the Shouldice Hospital, he did ask me
>how come I wouldn’t have it done here, I told him that
>I had lost faith with the doctors down here, and asked
>for a Doctor from one of the Hospitals to have a look.
>I refused because of the report from the Doctors at
>Shouldice. From his reaction he didn’t like what I had
>done, and from what I saw and became even more
>unco-operative towards me.
>
>I started to go to yet another Doctor, for I found no
>satisfaction in the others I had been to, for very
>good reasons. Doctor Saban Singh was my current
>Doctor at that time. My first appointment was on 14th
>May 2001, when I gave him some personal letters that I
>requested from Doctor Murdoch and Doctor G Stewart, as
>well as the report from the Shouldice Hospital along
>with a form from disability.
>
>I thought that Doctor Singh had filled out the report,
>however my Social Worker was asking about the
>disability forms, so therefore I made a phone call to
>Doctor Singh’s office on Thursday 15th December at
>approximately 12:00. He said “I thought I gave that
>back to you”, yet I never received it from him. So I
>called him back on Monday the 18th December, when the
>Doctor’s Secretary told me that he would like to see
>me. I then asked whether I needed to make an
>appointment for that, to which she said “No”, so I
>asked my father to drive me down to Doctor Singh’s
>offices and I waited to be seen, There were a few
>people in front of me, however he butted me in front
>of two of the people who were due to be seen before
>me. I felt that it was a little rude for him to do
>that to others who had been waiting before I arrived.
>When I got into to see Doctor Singh, he started to
>tell me that he had read through my medical file and
>found nothing wrong, for it took some time for the
>people at the Cole Harbor Family Center (see hand
>written notes,). He also told me he didn’t know how to
>fill the form out.
>
>For an inguinal hernia for permanent disability, he
>said that they have Doctors there and he didn’t want
>them to laugh at him. He further stated that if it got
>to Court he would have to say it was a simple
>operation, not saying it would, and he didn’t want to
>lie about it. I told him that I could not lie about
>how I felt, I made a reference for I knew what was in
>and about the letters from Doctor Murdoch and Stewart
>and if Doctor Singh had read my information, he would
>have been aware of that. I explained that even though
>I do suffer from chronic pain and or entrapped nerves,
>but yet he also told me I don’t know enough about my
>condition history after telling me he read my files.
>He then said “I don’t need this problem”. I would also
>point out that he missed the point of the past
>conversations in which the Doctors from Shouldice had
>informed me that there was nothing that they could do
>for my other pain. In closing I feel he really didn’t
>listen to me. This has been on-going up until 2002.
>This is my medical history and one of the reasons I
>why have not been able to repay my student loan. The
>other is that I am not precludes me from putting into
>my loan.
>I decided yet again to change my Doctor and started to
>see Dr Nicholson instead of Dr Singh, because I had
>lost confidence in him and I found him to be
>unprofessional.
>
>2002
>I first contacted the College of Surgeons because I
>felt that I had a genuine grievance against my
>previous medical practitioners. I believe that there
>has been an element of negligence and discrimination
>in the way in which they have treated me. I requested
>the College of Surgeons to investigate my medical
>case. The matter has not been resolved to my
>satisfaction and correspondence with them is still
>ongoing.
>
>In January 2002, I first met my future wife in an
>Internet chat room. We struck up a friendship,
>exchanging telephone numbers and later on, I invited
>her to come to Canada for a vacation. She spent a
>three-week vacation with me, during which time our
>relationship grew closer, to the point where I made a
>proposal of marriage to her.
>
>We were married on 21st September 2002 and I was aware
>that I had to inform my Social Worker of my change in
>status. I was unsure as to the procedures involved,
>so I contacted Kim Crowe, who is my present Social
>Worker. Since that time, she has been harrassing me
>and my wife. She has taken an aggressive, overbearing
>tone in our telephone conversations, demanding details
>of our alleged assets, yet when I have asked her for
>information, she has been evasive and vague in her
>manner. I would add that Ms Crowe has never taken the
>time to meet me in person and I feel that she is
>making her judgments upon me without ever having met
>me and without full possession of the facts relating
>to my situation.
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