I am sorry to hear about your unfortunate experience with the Canadian Health care system. It probably won't be getting better anytime soon.
Regrettably my DH and I had to learn about how bad our health care was by losing our b/g twins due to negligence of a nasty nurse. The only condolence we received from the doctor was future half price IVF cycles to ease his conscious. However living on the other side of the country doesn't help us, nor does the multiple factors we have since been diagnosed with. Sadly this mistake cost us $70000 out of our own pockets and most of all...our lives (they will never be the same).
I live in an area where there are over 100,000 people, and over 700,000 consider it a major medical hub however we don't have an endocrinologist. It's a huge retirement community and with the high prevalence of health issues (diabetes, etc) amongst the elderly...we shouldn't have just one but multiple endocrinologists for our area. Instead we have to drive 4 hours for an appointment with a mediocre doctor that at best received their diploma from a cutout of a cereal box!
It appears many of you are from Ontario....you have no idea how bad the system is in the rest of the country. It is by far incomparable. I never realized it until leaving the province of Ontario and moving west. But what I find astonishing is that people accept and make excuses for this poor quality and long waits of out health care out here. We pay a lot each month and get very little in return.
It’s sad when the only times things get changed are when accidents happen at the cost of someone’s life. Like the gentleman who died in Manitoba while waiting for emergency care. You should plan on things like this continuing to happen as health costs go up, and budget cuts continue.
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