The family flew her to NYC, where she was seen the same day, and she was immediately taken to surgery to have a resection of her GI tract to take out the blockage, which was actually found to be a complete obstruction – an otherwise fatal condition. She lived. Had she stayed in the UK and waited she would be dead. The American doctors gave her weeks to live if she’d have stayed there.

I can’t evaluate every poor outcome, or every “dissatisfied” customer – sometimes people’s expectations in their health care encounters are astronomical and impossible to meet. Sometimes they are legitimate and improvement is needed – as I said, it’s a human system and thus subject to human error. The guiding principle of every physician is, “First, do no harm”.

It’s that simple.

I thank God that we have the Health-care system that we have, and hope that 0bamacare gets repealed, revoked, and rescinded.

To place a system like that of the UK, Canada or elsewhere in America is just plain Evil. It will kill people by the tens and hundreds of thousands. That’s democide.

I thank God every day for our Catholic Hospitals that embrace life and reject the Cult of Death that is infecting our nation.

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Sacred Heart is one of the absolute best hospitals in the world. I have been a guest there on more than one occasion and my family members have too. We have always been treated with respect and the medical care we received was outstanding.

My father went in there with a death sentence and came out with his heart fixed, thanks to God and Dr. Lundquist. A year later, I walked into the ER with what I thought was a gallbladder attack and woke up in critical care. (I was having a heart attack, not a gallbladder attack. Silly me.)

The coronary team actually set a new time record for angioplasty that day. 51 minutes from the time I checked in at the desk in the ER, I was out of surgery and in recovery, after having two stents inserted into arteries in my heart. None of the team was on duty that Saturday – they all were paged to the hospital and still managed to pull off that incredibly fast surgery. I don’t remember any of it, but God and Dr. Rogers saved my life.

As for the wait time in the ER, there was none. The people there recognized a heart attack when they saw one and they were cramming baby aspirin in my mouth at the same time they were pushing me into a wheelchair. I was hooked up to an EKG within two minutes of walking into the hospital. The hospital actually has paramedics and RN’s patrolling the waiting area at the ER. If they see someone deteriorating or showing signs of distress, they get them to the back immediately.

Sacred Heart will forever and always be my first choice among the hospitals in this area!