@Builder,
I have no idea. Another colleague of mine had eye cancer, which the Cdn doctors didn't diagnose, so being as he was American, he paid to get a diagnosis and treatment in the US. He later died of it unnecessarily.
Still makes me ill.
I had a burst appendix a year ago (had a WBC count of 20), went to my local ER, was admitted but not seen by a physician and after 3 hrs of waiting, finally discharged myself to go to another centre. There, they did a CT scan, diagnosed me, and had me admitted to the surgery unit at that same local hospital an hour later, all in under 2 hours.
What's the problem? I don't know. I don't know if it was that particular triage team at the ER or what. My doctor was confounded when I told him.
I don't think the Canadian system is as good as it was, obviously. Today, my husband booked online for a lab test and has to wait 2 months, for Pete's sake, for a condition that has since gone away. What's the good of that?? Last month, I booked a lab appt - it was a month out - his was twice as long.
Another friend recently fractured the inside of her elbow and spent 11 hours at a walk-in clinic, x-ray clinic, and finally a hospital to get her full treatment. I took her to the clinic at 10:00 a.m. and she finally got home at 9:00 p.m. They did nothing at the end of it - no sling, no nothing. Waste of bloody time.
Part of the problem is that doctors here no longer do anything but diagnose and refer. My husband was to go to the lab to get an aspiration of his leg - something doctors here did in office years ago. What's so hard about drawing a sample of a fluid that family docs can't/won't do anymore? That would save him 2 months for a diagnosis. Ridiculous.