To those of us in Canada, remember, "non-essential medical procedures" (which are prohibited in many places in Canada now) include many cancer screenings, tumor removals, and treatments. "Essential" means "will kill you in 24 hours", not "needed to live". It doesn't mean they're stopping plastic surgery only, it means they're stopping anything that they can put off while declaring their conscience clear.
If you're concerned about anything, make sure you get yourself checked, it isn't like the hospitals are crowded, they'll take you right in... Assuming you can get in in-between medical lockdowns.
Something I've noticed in my circle of acquaintances in the past six month is how many aren't pushing universal healthcare in the US. I think what has been happening up in Canada is part of the reason they've gone silent on the subject. As people have showed them articles about how Canada has shutdown basic medical services and they don't have a response to why that's so great. Especially since many of the people calling for universal healthcare have chronic health issues that largely is due to their own lifestyle choices. But Canada has shut off services they'd actually need if we had nationalized healthcare.
Ah yes. I've only been looking at this from the American perspective. I bet all these countries with socialized healthcare systems have absolutely loved all the new justification to write shit off. Bet they've saved billions.
Much like the USA, the biggest complaint of healthcare here is being being laid off for lack of work. Churn is high, but so is unemployment. Out of curiosity I approached a few medical industries and checked if they needed employees, and they all came back with a variant on "we're cutting back, not expanding".
Medical MEDIA is booming, but medical itself is finding all new ways to bring austerity measures.
I was recently attempting to discuss an issue with my new doctor. She's young, female, and minority. I did not object because a small part of me still strives to treat everyone as an individual.
She's incompetent. Read a chart incorrectly, failed to understand a simple medication question, and gave an innocent prescription.
I can't be willfully blind to this shit anymore. It's gonna get me killed.
TL:DR Dumb ass doctors didn't read my Grandmother's chart after surgery and pumped her full of too many blood thinners, she had thin blood so this was life threatening. Had to check her out or she would have been dead.
Since my Grandmother has long since passed I feel a bit more comfortable sharing this story.
In the early 2000s my Grandmother went in for knee replacement surgery (At least I think it was. This was a time it my life I've been trying to purge from my brain for the last 20 years.) and the hospital she went to was not very many steps from a butcher's shop.
One time we went to visit her there was a woman yelling in pain in the next room room or two over. One of the nurses came in to check on my Grandmother and commented that the nurses wouldn't do anything for this lady unless she pressed the call button.
After the surgery and she was in outcare the doctor's didn't read her chart and kept pumping her full of blood thinners. My Grandmother had thin blood so this was a life threatening issue. We brought this up with the doctors and they didn't seem to care so we just had to get her the fuck out of there or she would have been dead.
My grandparent's GP and neurologist have refused to see them in over a year. All what they do is call us over the phone but still charge us for a full office visit.
Can't help but feel this mightn't have been the case if hospitals weren't hamstringing vital care over something far less deadly.
Adding this to the list of things to remember next time I feel like reflecting if my anger is justified.
To those of us in Canada, remember, "non-essential medical procedures" (which are prohibited in many places in Canada now) include many cancer screenings, tumor removals, and treatments. "Essential" means "will kill you in 24 hours", not "needed to live". It doesn't mean they're stopping plastic surgery only, it means they're stopping anything that they can put off while declaring their conscience clear.
If you're concerned about anything, make sure you get yourself checked, it isn't like the hospitals are crowded, they'll take you right in... Assuming you can get in in-between medical lockdowns.
Something I've noticed in my circle of acquaintances in the past six month is how many aren't pushing universal healthcare in the US. I think what has been happening up in Canada is part of the reason they've gone silent on the subject. As people have showed them articles about how Canada has shutdown basic medical services and they don't have a response to why that's so great. Especially since many of the people calling for universal healthcare have chronic health issues that largely is due to their own lifestyle choices. But Canada has shut off services they'd actually need if we had nationalized healthcare.
Ah yes. I've only been looking at this from the American perspective. I bet all these countries with socialized healthcare systems have absolutely loved all the new justification to write shit off. Bet they've saved billions.
Much like the USA, the biggest complaint of healthcare here is being being laid off for lack of work. Churn is high, but so is unemployment. Out of curiosity I approached a few medical industries and checked if they needed employees, and they all came back with a variant on "we're cutting back, not expanding".
Medical MEDIA is booming, but medical itself is finding all new ways to bring austerity measures.
Just damn near lost an aunt to her psychopathic doctor.
I was recently attempting to discuss an issue with my new doctor. She's young, female, and minority. I did not object because a small part of me still strives to treat everyone as an individual.
She's incompetent. Read a chart incorrectly, failed to understand a simple medication question, and gave an innocent prescription.
I can't be willfully blind to this shit anymore. It's gonna get me killed.
Diversity hiring has made straight white males sacred funnily enough as they are the few that never got special treatment.
TL:DR Dumb ass doctors didn't read my Grandmother's chart after surgery and pumped her full of too many blood thinners, she had thin blood so this was life threatening. Had to check her out or she would have been dead.
Since my Grandmother has long since passed I feel a bit more comfortable sharing this story.
In the early 2000s my Grandmother went in for knee replacement surgery (At least I think it was. This was a time it my life I've been trying to purge from my brain for the last 20 years.) and the hospital she went to was not very many steps from a butcher's shop.
One time we went to visit her there was a woman yelling in pain in the next room room or two over. One of the nurses came in to check on my Grandmother and commented that the nurses wouldn't do anything for this lady unless she pressed the call button.
After the surgery and she was in outcare the doctor's didn't read her chart and kept pumping her full of blood thinners. My Grandmother had thin blood so this was a life threatening issue. We brought this up with the doctors and they didn't seem to care so we just had to get her the fuck out of there or she would have been dead.
I predict a lot of lawsuits in the coming years against doctors and hospitals who have refused to see/treat patients.
My grandparent's GP and neurologist have refused to see them in over a year. All what they do is call us over the phone but still charge us for a full office visit.