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I am currently waiting for open heart surgery. As part of that Waiting Period I was given a spiral bound book entitled “to the Cardiac Surgery Patient”. It was last updated in April 2019 and I am afraid that I have to report more than one shortcoming. It does have lots of space devoted to my questions but only has a general URL not actually designed for feedback. The St Paul’s Hospital Cardiac Surgery Team do have a web page https://www.heartcentre.ca

My first impression is simply the font they chose: Comic Sans. Ugh!

Section 2 page 13 is about Transportation

It states “Buses: Many buses run both north and south on Burrard and Davie Streets”

No, buses on Davie are running perpendicular to Burrard – east west might be more accurate. But why not say

Buses on Burrard: #2 to Dunbar Loop (some short running to 16th Ave only). #44 to UBC (Express)

Buses on Davie – #5 and #6 run in loops in opposite directions to connect downtown to the West End

The #23 on Pacific Boulevard connects to Yaletown

Then it says “The Sky Train is a short walk from Burrard Street. Contact BC Transit …”

Excuse me, but BC Transit has not served Vancouver since January 1, 1998! But at least they provide a working web link. Puzzling is the entire paragraph devoted to The Canada Line as if it was some separate entity.

They do mention the option of car rentals but provide no links and ignore the existence of evo. Similarly taxis are mentioned but no telephone numbers or web links are provided. Lyft and Uber are simply ignored.

They talk about safety in the area around the hospital but seem to be more concerned with “fairness” than reality. The hospital itself is providing services to drug addicts and homeless people. I find the greatest issue to be their unpredictability but I do not have any advice to offer. “Many people of all walks of life” really is to vague to be of any use at all.