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Lors de mon entrée à la clinique de l'Hôpital Sainte-Anne, j'ai dû signer de nombreux formulaires. Je devais m'engager à ne pas être violent, impoli, à ne pas dépasser le cadre établi. Dans ces conditions, tous les cas lourds, la clinique de l'Hôpital Sainte-Anne et les autres cliniques au Canada s'en débarrassent.
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When I was admitted to the Ste. Anne clinic, I had to sign a lot of forms. I had to promise not to be violent or impolite, not to break the rules. With those kinds of conditions in place, the Ste. Anne hospital, as well as all the other clinics in Canada, are relieved of any obligation to treat a veteran whose case is serious but who cannot respect the rules. That is why you do not see the clinics dealing with serious cases, just light ones, where guys like me go in once every couple of months or every three weeks. The clinics are not equipped to deal with any severe cases; they do not have the space, the beds, to care for those veterans. When a bed is available, as soon as the veteran breaks any of the rules or becomes the slightest bit intolerant, he is kicked out the clinic for being violent or disruptive. Then the province steps in. In Quebec, the provincial medicare system takes care of those veterans, and that does not factor into the department's statistics. The number of veterans who receive care through the civilian health care system is not recorded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which distorts the figures and makes them inaccurate.
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