Colby Cosh: I survived a trip to the ER. Not everyone is so lucky

Like thousands of other consumers of the stories on Prashant Sreekumar, I’m somebody who has suffered a heart attack in Edmonton and been plunged into the lottery tombola of Canadian health care

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When something ridiculous or scandalous happens in Edmonton, where I live, I make a point of calling attention to it, perhaps out of a misguided sense of professional honour. The city has now come to nationwide and even international attention for a reason that hits particularly close. A few days before Christmas, a 44-year-old man in good general health, Prashant Sreekumar, turned up at the Grey Nuns hospital with terrible chest pains that had begun at work.

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An electrocardiogram (EKG) showed nothing abnormal, and Sreekumar suffered in the waiting room for eight hours as his blood pressure inched upward. Mere

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