Is the B.C. health system equipped to diagnose and treat Lyme disease?
The parents of a young woman diagnosed with Lyme disease are speaking out against the B.C. health system because, they said, doctors have failed to properly treat their daughter, causing her to become much sicker than she might have been otherwise. “Our health-care providers are very biased about this disease. They don’t want to acknowledge it,” said Jay McQuhae, the woman’s father. “You are helpless. Your hands are tied. You can do nothing but just sit there and watch your daughter deteriorate.” Marie McQuhae, 23, believes she may have contracted Lyme disease when she was bitten by a tick while hiking the West Coast Trail a few years ago. Over the last three years, McQuhae said she’s had all the classic symptoms listed in the B.C. Health Guide. Full Story What do you think? Is the B.C. health system well-equipped to treat Lyme disease? Have you ever been mis-diagnosed?
Should Pickton be tried on the 20 outstanding murder charges?
A second trial will not go ahead if the earlier convictions are upheld on appeal. (CBC) An appeal hearing in the Robert Pickton murder case has been tentatively scheduled for nine days in Vancouver starting March 30, 2009. Six issues will be argued in the appeal, including the charge to the jury by B.C. Supreme Court Justice James Williams, in which he said jurors could convict even if they found Pickton didn’t act alone. Pickton was found guilty in December of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women who disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The former pig farmer from Coquitlam, B.C., has also been charged with 20 more counts of murder in similar cases, but B.C’s Attorney General Wally Oppal has said the second trial will not go ahead if the six convictions are upheld at the appeal. Full Story What do you think? Should Pickton be tried on the 20 outstanding murder charges?
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