{"id":4787,"date":"2020-06-11T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2020-06-11T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:14:05","slug":"why-should-mr-higgs-apologize-to-dr-ngola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/11\/why-should-mr-higgs-apologize-to-dr-ngola\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should Mr. Higgs apologize to Dr. Ngola?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the following Globe & Mail article, we learn\nthat Dr. Nogla, the physician in Restigouche likely responsible for the latest\ncluster of new cases in our province is requesting apologies from our Premier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is also asking to resume his services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also read in the article the following:  \u201cDuring the week of May 10, he drove to\nthe Montreal suburb of Longueuil to pick up his daughter after her mother had\nto leave the country for a family emergency. There, he said he limited his\ncontacts to the 4-year-old and his brother, who had been caring for her.On his\nway back, he stopped in the city of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res to meet with two fellow\nphysicians for a discussion about the pandemic and possible future work in\nQuebec. A private investigator hired by Mr. Ngola\u2019s lawyer said the meeting\ntook place in a local clinic for about 20 minutes<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-new-brunswick-doctor-feels-destroyed-by-racist-abuse-and-threats\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we know why he did not self-isolate. Likely because he did not want his colleagues to know that he had a job interview. Could it be? This is a rather normal behaviour in normal times\u2026 but not during a pandemic. Sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bambi\u2019s mind, no Mr. Higgs, there is absolutely no need to apologize to Dr. Ngola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are a polite and pragmatic man Mr. Higgs. You have been a great Premier thus far and your covid-19 committee members (with all our political parties) have done a wonderful job, as much as realistically possible (despite any confusion, excess, or contradiction). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please dot not accept to be pushed around in public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether Dr. Ngola returns to his practice in NB or\nelsewhere, whether he is charged or not for medical negligence, the reality is\nthe following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He took a risk and he was unlucky (sorry for him\u2026 BUT\nsorry for Restigouche and NB too!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without wanting it for sure, he seems to have brought the virus back to his community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if the recent cluster was not because of him, the\nreality is that he did not act wisely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has nothing to with his skin colour or country of\nbirth. In all honesty, Bambi does not care about any of the latter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This being said, his behaviour may have been related\nto his culture rather, with all due respect to the fantastic professionals from\nsimilar ethnic backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi comes from a culture where sometimes people\nbehave like Dr. Ngola (they are known to be less rule abiding than Western\ncultures, especially English Canadian ones).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, from physicians we should expect higher\nstandards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physicians should know how to behave better, whether\nthey are locals or not, immigrants or not, locum doctors or tenured ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Ouellette lost his life, as a result of the latest outbreak. Yet his son was the most dignified person Bambi has ever heard on TV. He did not blame Dr. Ngola, and he has all the right to be upset. Actually, Bambi was a bit upset to see how we have denied him this voice of anger (part of grief, as an emotion) because of all the political correctness and crazy \u201cfascist\u201d times we live in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this physician has received threats, his best bet would\nbe to contact the police. Did he do so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All what Mr. Higgs said was that the person (or Dr.)\u2019s\nbehaviour was irresponsible. He did not even name him (and Bambi has wondered\nwhy in an earlier post, see further below). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Higgs is right. This behaviour was irresponsible,\neven if unintentional and despite Dr. Ngola\u2019s compassion as a physician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Bambi listened to the interview Dr. Nogla gave to the French CBC (on his initiative, one must say), she thought to herself the following: He is desperate. Who can blame him when he must be sad to be suspended \u2639? And she also imagined how sad he must feel now in a small place where everyone knows everything about everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She thought to herself: This is why he is playing the racism card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if we have to be severe now in pandemics, perhaps\nwe can forgive him later, Bambi hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, now after reading this article in the Globe & Mail<\/em>, she has changed her opinion. She thinks that Dr. Ngola does not deserve our Premier\u2019s apologies. Our Premier deserves his apologies rather for asking about the latter in the mainstream media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, had Bambi been living in his community, and even if he returns to his medical position tomorrow morning, she would not take her own parents to him, as new patients, especially in a future pandemic… Perhaps she would in non-pandemic times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goodbye\/Au revoir Monsieur Daniel Ouellette<\/a><\/blockquote>