So I am blessed to live in the wonderful Canada, home of the Great White North, the annual bloody seal hunt and a health care system that is supposedly the envy of the world. Then if so, why is it so hard to find decent health care anywhere in this, the second largest country in the world? Signs are popping up all over clinics - one complaint per visit. That is so the doctors can run through the patients as fast as possible and make as much cash on the tax payers dollar. Gone are the days where the doctor knew your name. You are lucky if he even remembers your ailment.
I am in the unfortunate predicament where I need ongoing health maintainence. But the doctor I see has me in and out within 3 minutes. One complaint. Well here is my complaint - stop being so damn greedy and start caring about your patients again. Your patients are losing patience. You took the Hypocratic Oath, not the Hypocritical Boast.
No more family doctors. Just these fast-food clinics where you are lucky to see the same doctor twice over the course of ten visits. This presents a significant problem when dealing with my health care provider, especially when they need forms filled out dealing with my ongoing medical condition. They just love it when they can suspend benefits because some doctor who doesn't know me from the local supermarket cashier, tries to fill out a form describing what has been going on with me health-wise over the past 10 years.
The shame is that we have become so accustomed to second rate health care that even if we paid more in taxes, we still would not get better service. We would get the same service, or worse. Currently, I am on month 9 of waiting for an MRI. It could be another year. Who knows. Even if they bought Ottawa another MRI machine, we would need the staff to operate it. And even if we had the budget, we don't have the manpower. Our MRI machines sit silent while nurses and techs sleep soundly in bed at night. But if you are willing to fork over a grand, you can cross the river and in La Belle Quebec, get an MRI the next day.
We need to raise taxes that go strictly to health care, and have someone seriously revamp the health care on a national level. National standards. Doctors being forced to see the same patients, not patients being forced to see any doctor on call at whatever clinic. Back to the days of family doctors. Folks that know who you are. Who remember that yea, that's John Smith, he has kidney issues, I saw him last week, How is his mother doing? Didn't she have high blood pressure? Maybe I should give her a call and see how her medications are doing.
I guess this is just a dream though, Well, it would be a dream, if i could sleep. See, I have sleep apnea, and I will be damned if I can find a doctor who can remember that they have tried X prescrpition and Y prescription and neither worked. So, as I lie here sleepless, i commiserate. Dreams are a thing of the past. Just like health care. Welcome to clinics. We will hear your one complaint, but you only have 180 seconds - and please, don't give any of your medical hsitory, It takes too much of the doctor's time. he has other people to see he has never met before.
I am in the unfortunate predicament where I need ongoing health maintainence. But the doctor I see has me in and out within 3 minutes. One complaint. Well here is my complaint - stop being so damn greedy and start caring about your patients again. Your patients are losing patience. You took the Hypocratic Oath, not the Hypocritical Boast.
No more family doctors. Just these fast-food clinics where you are lucky to see the same doctor twice over the course of ten visits. This presents a significant problem when dealing with my health care provider, especially when they need forms filled out dealing with my ongoing medical condition. They just love it when they can suspend benefits because some doctor who doesn't know me from the local supermarket cashier, tries to fill out a form describing what has been going on with me health-wise over the past 10 years.
The shame is that we have become so accustomed to second rate health care that even if we paid more in taxes, we still would not get better service. We would get the same service, or worse. Currently, I am on month 9 of waiting for an MRI. It could be another year. Who knows. Even if they bought Ottawa another MRI machine, we would need the staff to operate it. And even if we had the budget, we don't have the manpower. Our MRI machines sit silent while nurses and techs sleep soundly in bed at night. But if you are willing to fork over a grand, you can cross the river and in La Belle Quebec, get an MRI the next day.
We need to raise taxes that go strictly to health care, and have someone seriously revamp the health care on a national level. National standards. Doctors being forced to see the same patients, not patients being forced to see any doctor on call at whatever clinic. Back to the days of family doctors. Folks that know who you are. Who remember that yea, that's John Smith, he has kidney issues, I saw him last week, How is his mother doing? Didn't she have high blood pressure? Maybe I should give her a call and see how her medications are doing.
I guess this is just a dream though, Well, it would be a dream, if i could sleep. See, I have sleep apnea, and I will be damned if I can find a doctor who can remember that they have tried X prescrpition and Y prescription and neither worked. So, as I lie here sleepless, i commiserate. Dreams are a thing of the past. Just like health care. Welcome to clinics. We will hear your one complaint, but you only have 180 seconds - and please, don't give any of your medical hsitory, It takes too much of the doctor's time. he has other people to see he has never met before.
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