Thank you very much for coming.
All of your testimony is most compelling. In fact I find it alarming. It makes me never want to take a drug again.
I'm not going to summarize what you said. I made notes, as we all have. We all have that information. It's most useful for the committee to consider as to what recommendations we'll make to Parliament.
I'm still not clear on this. As I understand it, the only people who can make a report to Health Canada are the pharmaceutical companies. That's what I understand, although I think now we're talking about hospitals.
My question is for anyone. If an individual has a reaction and they're not too sure whether it's serious or not, because you only report serious reactions, what happens? What does that person do? They don't know where the drug company is. You talked about a friendly form. You talked about doctors trying to talk you out of filling it out. I think you mentioned that. You said a lot of alarming things.
So I've had a reaction. I think it's a serious reaction. What do I do today?