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Posted By: travelinMT on 2009-06-17
In Reply to: Obtaining "medicines" and seeing a physician are - 2 totally separate issues..... sm

I don't know where you work or get your standards of acceptable practice from. But I also have done In and out patient hospital QA and when departments set up indicators for standards of care they set them for acceptable patient continunity of care. If you had a suspicious mammogram and they wanted an ultrasound or a breast biopsy to confirm the findings would you want to wonder for 3-months if it was malignant or not? That is not quality health care that is crap healthcare. The standards that were set up for that specific situation by the "HMO" (HMO's often times get the worst rap for wait times) was 48 hours from suspicious finding to definitive diagnosis and we called those 48 hours "sleepless nights". A hospital that is worth anything will have an orthopedic surgeon on call to do surgery on an acute fracture and won't just keep the patient zonked on pain meds until the doc gets back to work from his weekend off. I waited exactly 2 days for my MRI/Arthrogram when I tore my rotator cuff. I don't know where you work or get your medical care at but what you say is acceptable is lousy patient care.

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Why does it take so long to get a doctor - appointment or procedure in Canada?
- Healthcare........ - sm
- Canadian Health Care - Marie
- First of all, it's not true - Canada neighbor
  - I'm not buying it. - travelinMT
    - Well - AnnuderMT
      - Obama's healthcare plan - AZMT
        BS. - Chatty
  - Obtaining "medicines" and seeing a physician are - 2 totally separate issues..... sm
    - respone to annuder - travelinMT
- Government controlled healthcare!! - nm
  - And not like we don't all have enough to worry - Victoria
- a couple of reasons - cj
  - So where will the MDs run if both Canada and - USA have gov run health care?
    - India!! LOL - nm
    - Perhaps it is because doctors are tired of the John Edwards "ambulance chasers." sm - MT and worn out
- sm - Canada

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