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Borders of life; Detroit hospitals offer services Canadian patients can't get.

Publication: Crain's Detroit Business
Publication Date: 18-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Andrew Dietderich

Mike Lisinski had three options last Monday when he had a heart attack:

* Travel two hours by ambulance to London, Ontario.

* Take a 20-minute ride through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel to Henry Ford Hospital.

* Die.

The 53-year-old Windsor resident was in the parking lot of Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital of Windsor after visiting his mother when he had a heart attack. Physicians there were able to give him medicine to alleviate pain caused by the clot in his heart, but he needed surgery to implant a stent in his heart and they didn't have a surgeon to perform the operation.

Two hours later, he was on an operating table at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

"All you're thinking in the back of your head is, `This must be pretty serious if they're shipping me somewhere else,' '' Lisinski said.

Lisinski isn't alone, and hospitals close to the border make no bones about offering emergency and routine treatment for Canadian patients for care that isn't available - or immediately available - in their country....

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