

Cut it!"' recalled Kim D'Arcy, who sat by the 68-year-old's bedside as he fell into despair. Not long after, the retired businessman turned to his wife and made slicing motions on his Halifax Infirmary identity band.

On his last day, he heard staff yell the clincher: "If he stops breathing, don't resuscitate." He'd languished for six hours in a chilly emergency-room hallway, had a broken IV in his arm, and was bumped from his room by another dying patient during five days of struggles in Halifax's largest hospital.
