Blamed for a heart attack? The ‘magical thinking’ of Danielle Smith and some conservatives
about cancer patients and how mainstream medicine deals with them. Smith agrees with her guest that medical practitioners don’t do enough to promote disease prevention and she says that when a person shows up at a hospital with Stage 4 cancer, they must consider “everything that built up before you got to Stage 4” because “that’s completely within your control.”
It’s a shift some worry could have implications if Smith and the UCP win Alberta’s election next month, and are given a mandate to enact significant changes to the provincial health-care system. It could also fly in the face of Smith’s stated goal of fixing that system.Long before entering politics, Smith promoted controversial positions related to health.
It’s part of a recent phenomenon on the political right, said Tim Caulfield, a health misinformation expert at the University of Alberta. Recently, Chelsae Petrovic, the UCP election candidate for Livingstone-Macleod, prefaced a comment that would land her in trouble by saying “this might be political suicide” and then went on to suggest that people who have heart attacks need to be more accountable.
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