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[snakerattle79]

Brandon smacks back at UFC star Brock Lesnar - The Globe and Mail

She may give up several inches and a few pounds to UFC star Brock Lesnar, but the CEO of Brandon's regional health authority is taking on the martial-arts brute and his bruising views on Canadian health-care system.

“I take real exception to being referred to as a third-world country operation,” said Carmel Olson, responding Thursday to comments from Mr. Lesnar, the venom-spewing, bone-breaking heavyweight champion of the UFC.

On Wednesday, Mr. Lesnar marked his return to the octagon after a lengthy digestive ailment by slamming the medical treatment he received while visiting Brandon, Man. “It was like a Third World country,” he said of Brandon Regional Hospital. “My wife saved me. She got me out of there and drove 100 miles per hour to get me down to Bismarck, N.D.”

He was reportedly visiting Manitoba to hunt with his brother, who lives in the area. But when his painful diverticulitis flared up, he drove three hours to check into Brandon's hospital, a modern facility that serves much of western Manitoba and south-eastern Saskatchewan. But he quickly found that it wasn't up to his standard. “They had some machinery that wasn't working and couldn't do its job,” he said. “I needed to have [tests] done, so we went where they could be done.”

But Ms. Olson disputes the 6-foot-3 former wrestling star's version of events.

“ We have state-of-art equipment here. We are hardly a one-horse operation. ”— Carmel Olson, Brandon regional health authority CEO

“The attending physician was very qualified and very respected,” she said. “He's been in the business for more than 30 years. And he has the skills to diagnose a condition such as diverticulitis without a CT scan.”

She added that the Brandon facility deals with diverticulitis on a regular basis and that Mr. Lesnar was never misdiagnosed.

“We have checked this particular health record and were are quite confident that the correct diagnosis was given and the best course of treatment offered,” she said. “We have state-of-art equipment here. We are hardly a one-horse operation.”

She was flummoxed as to why the Mr. Lesnar took such exception to Brandon.

“Who knows, maybe he didn't like the bill.”

Towards the end of his press conference, Mr. Lesnar admitted that his comments were partly motivated by the ongoing political debate in the U.S. “The reason I'm saying that is because there's millions of people that don't want health care reform and I'm one of them,” he said. “I'm not a believer in socialism and I don't want that going on.”

After visiting Bismarck, he was transferred to the famed Mayo Clinic, a facility he said was superior to Brandon's hospital, an assertion that doesn't surprise Ms. Olson.

“I wouldn't be so arrogant as to compare ourselves to the Mayo Clinic, they're the experts,” said Ms. Olson. “But I really take exception to someone giving us that kind of media coverage for their own political reasons.”

[H33LHooK]

This probably could have been posted in the other thread about this topic...

[SWIFTboy]

Did I mention that we have state-of-art equipment here and that we are hardly a one-horse operation?

[jlruthven84]

Originally Posted by SWIFTboy

Did I mention that we have state-of-art equipment here and that we are hardly a one-horse operation?

Probably a flub on the writer's part.

Either way, no one's surprised that Brock said that shit. Nothing he's done or said would lead anyone to believe that he's not a xenophobic, homophobic, sack of douche. A scary-talented sack of douche, but a SOD nonetheless.

I guess no one told him that, in a study of 19 developed countries' health care systems, the United States ranked *drumroll* 19th.

[GangGreenWarrior]

The hospital in Brandon is far from a 3rd world country, speaking from personal and professional experience. If he was in the ICU for his condition, he was treated with first line treatments and up to date machinery.

The place just got a 60 million dollar upgrade 5 years ago. If Brock had come down with sudden cancer while hunting next time he's there; a new 25 million dollar cancer center is being built. Hardly 3rd world to me.

Winnipeg is only 2 hours away and had things become serious, he would have been transferred there. He was in no danger.

Yes, the Mayo Clinic is better that the hospitals in Manitoba.....but are any hospitals better than the Mayo Clinic? It's the only hospital the majority of casual health care fans can name. Maybe for more hardcore health care fans, there are other prominent hospitals.

[dan the man 67]

The Mayo clinic is very well known, and highly respected, but that doesn't necessarily mean that their doctors are better than all others. I'm sure they have some of the best, but some of the best also work elsewhere.

[KevoOnTheRadio]

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Originally Posted by GangGreenWarrior

The hospital in Brandon is far from a 3rd world country, speaking from personal and professional experience. If he was in the ICU for his condition, he was treated with first line treatments and up to date machinery.

The place just got a 60 million dollar upgrade 5 years ago. If Brock had come down with sudden cancer while hunting next time he's there; a new 25 million dollar cancer center is being built. Hardly 3rd world to me.

Winnipeg is only 2 hours away and had things become serious, he would have been transferred there. He was in no danger.

Yes, the Mayo Clinic is better that the hospitals in Manitoba.....but are any hospitals better than the Mayo Clinic? It's the only hospital the majority of casual health care fans can name. Maybe for more hardcore health care fans, there are other prominent hospitals.[/QUOTE]

Fuckin noob healthcare fans. All they do is talk about the Mayo Clinic! Harcore fans like us can name bunch of good healthcare places. Damn casual fans don't know what they're talkin about!

[goodtimes]

So, Lesnar had his wife drive him 100 mph across the border into North Dakota, while he was seriously ill, because he refused to believe that Canadians could offer comparable health care to the US, based on the current health care debate? It's really hard for me to like this guy...

[JustinVoorhees]

[QUOTE=KevoOnTheRadio;683710]

Fuckin noob healthcare fans. All they do is talk about the Mayo Clinic! Harcore fans like us can name bunch of good healthcare places. Damn casual fans don't know what they're talkin about!

rofl

[U shut ur FACE]

Well the good part about this is, I never formed an opinion in regards to this hospital or Canadian health care based off of Brock Lesner's comments as I knew from the get-go, this asshole has no clue what third world hospitals are like.

I've been in one before, they have literally nothing; if you have to throw up, you do so on the floor, you're lucky to have an IV and the doctor doesn't speak your language. I'm sorry but I've always thought Brock was an asshole and if he doesn't get what he wants he fires off... Sorta bully mentality or what not and this may seem conclusive about his personality but it's just the way I feel... Really no need to go this far into it but just wanted to share my thoughts on what he said lol.