ELEVENTH, my legal advisors have told me that I have rights to ask for a possibility to discuss my x-ray result with any of your medical institution specialists dedicated to such evaluations before going further. It is you (on behalf of Immigration or not - it is does not matter) who are sending me to Infectious Disease Unit. Because you are sending me to such a unit, you can not deny me such a discussion. I would like to see the x-ray original, which was made in your institution on November 1 2000 - and also show Document
5it to my medical advisors.
TWELVETH, I prefer not to go through further tests or evaluations in immigration matters (for medical purposes - it's different) at your institution.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN
November 2000 Montreal
- Document Number Nine
RESUME of my visit to Montreal Chest Institute on December 2 2000
OBJECT Of the Visit:
1) to receive an official result (medical resume-evaluation) of my x-ray test done on November 1 2000
2) find out where is the original film and try to obtain it for making a copy
REASONS:
November 23 2000. I have managed to find out who sent me the anonymous letter (described in Documents 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6) from
Montreal Chest Institute (MCI). It was M-me Lucy Gefroy (Jefroi or Joyfroid?). According to the same sources: she's never seen that x-ray. I left her my message on 849-5211 (ex 2166). She called me at 2.15 p.m. anonymously ("private call" indication) - and asked me what I want. She confessed that she is M-me Lucy only when I told her that recognized her voice comparing it to her answering machine message. That only could tell about her insincerity and guilt. I spoke with her in French, but when I did not know some medical terminology in French, and used English, she pretended that does not speak English at all. However, when I switched to French again, she started to speak bad English, which I could not understand. It was difficult to get along with her, but finally I convinced her to speak French again - and asked her a couple of questions.
Here they are:
- Did you see the x-ray?
- Yes, I did.
- What kind of a shadow did you see, mild? bright? what its form? On the right or left side?
- I can not tell you.
- Where is this x-ray film now?
- I can not tell you.
- Is it at MCI?
- Immigration took it from us, and, I think, it was lost.
- What do you mean - lost?
- Vanished somewhere at Immigration.
- Can I obtain the result?
- Listen, your case here is closed. You don't have to come here. Not any more. We disabled our previous letter's order. Bye.
She disconnected.
RESULTS of the visit.
At MCI's medical archive employers did not find any records about my x-ray in the computer. They told me that a mistake might
occur - because if even I did the x-ray for Immigration, its data (result, date, etc.) since November 1 had to be entered into the
registry.
Before I could enter room number 28 a small blond man appeared and approached me as in espionage novels (how could he
react so quickly, who warned him during my descending from the second to the first floor?) "You will receive nothing here. And you will be prosecuted for refusing to see the doctor, - he shouted to me. "I was told that my x-ray has vanished, and came to check, and also to obtain the result". He became almost pale - so visually he was frightened, as if he lost a million of dollars. He disappeared behind the gray door and soon came out with an envelope (my name and photo on it) and signs of a deep relief. "Here it is, - he told.
- You must visit a doctor because you have tuberculosis". "Are you confident about TB you mentioned?" - "Yes, I am". - "I was told that my case here is cancelled - and I don't have to appear". - "Nobody could tell you that. You will be prosecuted for your refusal!"
"Your conclusions about the x-ray was a mistake, Sir, and the film reveals a technical defect or a shadow of underwear, which I did not remove. Take a look - and let me see". - "It is possible. But the law says that you must see a doctor anyway, if even this is our mistake". - "What law, what paragraph? Then - I have a constitutional right to choose another institution, not yours, to pay such a visit". Then he started screaming on me: "You don't want to pay, ah? You don't want to donate to our hospital? You came to Canada and want to enjoy our good life without giving anything back? If you don't pay by your fucken money - you'll pay by your fucken ass!" - I tried to say "This is not only because of money, this is because I can not trust you!" but he kept screaming on me - and I left him. Before I left the hospital I could find out that there is no official result in my case. No paper, no evaluation. Only a checkpoint on the envelope, in category "4". What if somebody just made a wrong hand movement - and checked a wrong place?
I did not go to MCI any more. Later I discovered through other ways that the category 4 means "pulmonary noodles", which was completely inapplicable to me!
