Stunning. I've all but bugged of the Canadian medical system. I can't take it anymore. My GP passed away awhile ago, local clinic closes not at closing time but whenever the waiting room has enough in it to keep them busy until closing time. You go fight the traffic to get there and hours before closing and are turned away. Emerge is a humiliation. I resolved to lie in bed this week until either my throat agony lessened so I could eat, or I died. Lost 9 lbs Tues - Sat.
To make it worse, there is a very effective pill that reduces by 80% of the symptoms of Covid. But you can't get it unless you are 65+. What happened to freedom? There is a legal product I badly need, I have the money and seller wants to sell, but the government interferes, oppressive imo , and dictates that I cannot buy it. And the sheeple go baa, it's the the government must be right, etc.
My current strategy is walk over to emerge at 3:00 a.m. for anything serious. Last time I did so was for any eye issue. 1/2 a dozen giggly girls at the station and not a soul in the place but them and me. Still took three hours to see a doctor. He misdiagnosed it but was sharp enough to know it wasn't his expertise and hooked me into the eye clinic who saw me when they opened a few hours later). The place had all the compassion, urgency and care you'd expect from the DMV.
I swear they in large part keep you waiting as part of a PR policy, must have the public always thinking we are just holding on and desperate for funds. Like years ago when one of our kids was born - they introduced a new austerity measure, bring your own diapers ...... as were were ushered into (25 years ago) a $300, 000 birthing suite ( i asked).
I don't think i'd want the US model, but it sure seems like ours delivers inferior care.
