An Ontario man who wound up in Medicine Hat hospital following a heart attack en route home from B.C., also found himself with a $12,482.50 tab after being flown to and from Calgary for an angiogram.--SUBMITTED PHOTO

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Doug McGinley visited Medicine Hat twice this summer while driving from Oakville, Ont. to Victoria to move his daughter home. His family enjoyed their first stay, stopping for a few days to recharge. The second pass through, not so much.

McGinley started feeling chest pains as he approached Medicine Hat. When he arrived at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, he learned he had suffered a heart attack.

McGinley is emphatic about the quality of care he received while being treated in Alberta.

But on Aug. 3, his cardiologist explained he needed an angio

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