A Visit To Hotel Dieu
Notes from the hospital

Here I am at Hotel Dieu in Kingston writing on my smartphone for the second time today. I suspect that some of you may find the name a bit odd. It is not unusual in Canada.
In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu (English: hostel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays many of these buildings or institutions have kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris being the oldest and most renowned ( From Wikipedia article on Hotel Dieu).
Whenever possible I like to keep my readers in stitches. This time I cut my hand and am going to be the one in stitches. The hospital seems less busy than normal no visitors or family allowed. Everybody is wearing a mask.
Kingston is home to Queens university which trains Canadian doctors. The quality of medical care in this city is amazing and of course everything is cover by Ohip (the Ontario health insurance plan}.
As I was leaving I was given a kit for the removal of the stitches it contained gauze, scissors and tweezers. This really shows the difference between the prosocial attitudes in Canada and the attitude of many Americans. To combat the spread of Covid 19 Canadian doctors are doing everything they can to limit visits to the hospital, to the extent of giving patients kits to remove the stitches themselves rather than having them come back to the hospital, even though a return visit to remove the stitches would be more lucrative.
Jim McAulay🍁 Says “ If we repeal the law of gravity would it make things less serious?” 😜
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