Labrador resident Scott Russell had been in such intense pain and near starvation — he had lost about 90 pounds, or nearly half of his weight — that his wife drove more than 1,000 kilometres to Corner Brook, N.L., to get him the medical care he needed.
Russell and his wife Mina Campbell had waited for months to hear from a cardiovascular surgeon in St. John’s, but Campbell said when they eventually saw the surgeon, he told them he had never received a call.
“He [the surgeon] was surprised, he said ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,'” Campbell said. “Whatever happened shouldn’t have happened because Scott was starving to
