reply to post by Misoir
Well I would love to know what the WHO uses as their benchmarks to be honest. I can only deal with my own experiences, I have experienced firsthand
general practice doctors in NY and here( I dont want to give away exactly where I am, but I will say it is atlantic canada to give you an idea). As
far as emergency medicine is concerned, I have only personal experience in NY hospitals, but my parents have experience in both. As for doctors, in NY
I just called my doctor, made an appointment whenever I needed to be seen, usually got seen the same day I called. Here if I need a doctor, since I am
new I have to go to a clinic until I get a doctor from the clinic to accept me as a "family doctor". To make an appointment at the clinic, I have to
call between 12 and 1 on wednesday, they only make appointments at that time. So there is obviously a lot of people trying to get through. I don't
have to worry about paying, but it is way more restrictive here as well. If you need to see a specialist, then you have to wait in line, usually a
long line. My cousin 3yo waited over a year to see a cancer guy, and ended up dieing before he got to see one.
As for emergency medicine, my mother had to go to the hospital, she was having serious abdominal pains. Waited for 6 hours before she got in, turned
out to be appendicitus(sp), luckily it was removed before it burst, but they botched the laser surgery, and ended up having to open her up the old
fashioned way the next day to clean something up. All said and done, 2 weeks in the hospital, the bill was almost 9 grand. In NY my father almost
died, he had less than half the blood in his body than he should have had, he went to the hospital thinking he had some really bad flu lol. The doc
said he didn't even know how he was still alive, let alone walked in himself. He was in the hospital for a week and a half, getting blood
transfusion, and then getting tests run. They never figured out where the blood went, but he has been fine since. The bill for his stay was almost 50
grand.
That is all the experience I have had with the medical system up here, and back in NY. That is all I have to go by, except when I broke my arm in a
car accident, I have no idea how much that cost, the other idiot driver's insurance covered that.
@Daniyal, yeah there is way more to canada then healthcare, I like it where I am. Pretty small town, no police, ocean within walking distance, most
people here are great. Coming from NY, it still makes me paranoid when people I don't know wave at me instead of flipping me the bird