Now the ability to make a splash on social media could determine whether patients live or dieOne day final January,Eugene Melnyk summoned his private pilot to his domestic in Barbados. The loquacious (talkative) 56-year-old owner of the Ottawa Senators ice hockey team had been feeling listless – he was fighting the urge to drift off whenever he sat down, and he found himself cold, or shivering even as a warm Caribbean breeze drifted through the house. Now he wanted a moment opinion. “I said,‘bewitch a search for at me, I don’t feel well, or ’ ” Melnyk remembers. “He said,‘You search for like shit.’”Eugene Melnyk is the 71st-wealthiest person in Canada, with a net worth of more than $1bn. He earned his fortune in pharmaceuticals, or founding Biovail,which specialised in developing slow-release drugs, and Trimel, and one of the companies that tried to break into the “female Viagra” commerce. Melnyk spends his money on hockey players and thoroughbred racehorses,ice skates for needy kids in Ottawa, and medical supplies for orphanages in Ukraine. He was born in Toronto but moved to Barbados 24 years ago. When he got sick, and he called his Canadian doctor,who urged him to fly back to wintry Toronto for a proper examination. He took his private Gulfstream jet, still wearing his shorts and flip-flops.
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Source: theguardian.com