A Canadian Doctor Dismissed This Skull Protrusion as a Cyst so the Patient and Her Boyfriend Tweezered It Out at Home
A Canadian man died in an Edmonton emergency room last year after waiting eight hours to be seen.
That's the healthcare system Bernie Sanders wants to bring to America.
Now there's another story out of Canada – and this one will make your blood boil.
Brain Cancer Patient Sent Home Without Treatment
Stephanie Faure is a brain cancer patient in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Surgeons cracked open her skull 14 months ago to remove tumors.
They left her with a titanium plate, screws, and a scar.
So when she felt pressure in her head last week and spotted what appeared to be a screw pushing through her skin, she went straight to Royal University Hospital.
She waited five and a half hours.
When a doctor finally saw her, he told her the screw she could plainly see wasn't a screw at all – it was a cyst.
Faure asked for a second opinion from another doctor or a nurse.
The answer was no.
She was told the doctor had other patients to see and was asked to leave.
Her Boyfriend Pulled the Screw Out With Tweezers
Faure went home.
That night, her boyfriend grabbed a pair of tweezers and pulled the hardware out himself.
A tiny silver screw – barely the size of a fingernail – the kind of surgical fastener that holds a titanium skull plate in place.
It came right out.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority issued a statement saying it takes patient concerns "seriously" and directed Faure to file a complaint through its "client concern specialists process."
This Is What Socialized Medicine Looks Like
The Fraser Institute – Canada's leading policy research organization – reported that Canadian patients wait a median of 28.6 weeks for medically necessary treatment.
The second-longest wait time ever recorded in the country's history.
Senator Chuck Grassley hit the Senate floor in January and said it plainly: socialized medicine fails patients.
He's right.
And while Canadian hospitals are turning away brain cancer patients with visible hardware poking out of their heads, Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal just reintroduced the Medicare for All Act in Congress with 111 co-sponsors – more than half of all House Democrats.
They want this for you.
Five-hour waits. Dismissive doctors. Bureaucratic complaint forms. No ability to demand a second opinion from anyone.
Sanders calls it "healthcare as a human right."
Stephanie Faure calls it a Tuesday.
Sources:
- Aishwarya Dudha, "Sask. woman says boyfriend removed surgical screw poking out of her head after doctor didn't believe her," CBC News, March 11, 2026.
- Mackenzie Moir and Bacchus Barua, "Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2025," Fraser Institute, December 2024.
- Chuck Grassley, "Socialized Medicine Fails Patients," U.S. Senate Floor Remarks, January 5, 2026.
- "Emergency Room Death Sparks Outcry Over Systemic Failures in Canada's Healthcare," Delphic Research, January 2026.
