One of the patients of a neurosurgeon charged in the murder of his wife says she'd still let him operate on her if that were an option.
Lindsay Wilson told NEWSTALK 1010's Barb DiGiulio on the Night Side, "I think it is remarkable that I am still more willing to put my life in the hands of a potential murder than to be thrown back into the mix of Ontario neurosurgeons."
Wilson was a patient of Dr. Mohammed Shamji, one of the very few doctors able to treat EDS, a rare connective tissue disorder. He was arrested after his wife's body was found in a suitcase in York Region.
"This is the state of healthcare that we're dealing with in Ontario," Wilson says.
She says she suffers from brain stem compression, which means her body's automatic functions, such as heart rate and body temperature, have to be controlled by medication. She also suffers from seizures and severe migraines with vision loss.
Wilson says she's been battling the health care system for more than two years and that, until she met Dr. Shamji, her symptoms had been passed off as psychosomatic.
She says she has no confidence that the hospital will be able to replace him.