Our bicentennial celebration

[VatorMan]

BTW- You guys can come back and take New York, Washington DC and we'll throw Chicago and Detroit in for free !!

[Papa_Complex]

Oops, I had it wrong. We blew ourselves up, along with the commander of the American force, then you guys burnt the remnants down. In my defence it has been...... let's just say 'a while' since high school history class.

[Trip]

After my dad's experience with your healthcare in Calgary over the past few weeks, keep that too.

The GP just kept throwing antibiotics at him instead of sending him to a neurology specialist like he needed. Luckily we got him back in the States and hopefully he is going to get fixed up before he has a stroke. Probably terrible GP, but they would not let him see a specialist. They kept saying it was a tooth infection issue when it was an artery issue that they found in his neck with an MRI here.

[Papa_Complex]

Bad doctors are bad doctors anywhere.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Bad doctors are bad doctors anywhere.

Can you skip GPs though? According to my Dad, he cannot and has to see GP's first. Here you can go straight to the experts...

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

Can you skip GPs though? According to my Dad, he cannot and has to see GP's first. Here you can go straight to the experts...

You just have to understand the system, as with any bureaucracy. The last time I broke my collarbone I waited until the next day then walked into the emergency at St. Michael's Hospital, a two minute walk from my desk here at work, because I knew that two of the best orthropods in the country work there and, specifically, had done a study on plating collarbone breaks there.

I was scheduled to see one of them just two days after I walked into emergency.

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

You just have to understand the system, as with any bureaucracy. The last time I broke my collarbone I waited until the next day then walked into the emergency at St. Michael's Hospital, a two minute walk from my desk here at work, because I knew that two of the best orthropods in the country work there and, specifically, had done a study on plating collarbone breaks there.

I was scheduled to see one of them just two days after I walked into emergency.

Seems like the normal wait time up there.

My uncle only had to wait 2 (business) days to get someone to see him after his heart attack.

I mean; why should you get to see a heart specialist on Family Day just because you almost died, right?

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by shmike

Seems like the normal wait time up there.

My uncle only had to wait 2 (business) days to get someone to see him after his heart attack.

I mean; why should you get to see a heart specialist on Family Day just because you almost died, right?

Don't get me started on "Family Day"

You get to see a capable generalist rather quickly, in such cases. Specialists are heavily booked, so it might take a day or two. If you're misdiagnosed, as in the case of Trip's father, then your generalist becomes a roadblock rather than an advocate.

In my case my injury was relatively minor, and easily diagnosed, so I knew that I would be seeing one of the best guys in the country in short order.