BeetleGirl

I have lived in Ontario, Alberta, & British Columbia.
The furtherwest I move, the worse the quality care I receive.
I don't know if this has to do with funding, lack of amenities or what but I incredibly loathe our system. (JUST MY OPINION!)
After spending $70000 to get pregnant with twins, and losing them in the second trimester due to negligence has definately jaded my opinion. Especially with the medical butchery that was done and left me to never have biological chidren.

Had I been receiving care in the U.S. it is likely this wouldn't have happened. I would have been sent to a high risk OB, had testing started at the first signs of infection and would have been immediately treated with simple antibiotics.
Add in the fact that we chose to do chromesome testing through the U.S. after being told that it would take 6+ months for our results. Less than a week later, we had answers from the Women's hospital in Buffalo.

The U.S. is always ahead of us when it comes to medical break throughs. Look at hypothyroidism. Two countries side by side both with very different testing criteria. I was treated after a many year battle according to the American standards, and can say I have no regrets and feel better.

Finally, my dh has lived all over Canada & the U.S. and would move back across the border if immigration would approve our visas. He has worked in some of the top hospitals and universitys and still with their system, would go back. He gets pretty frustrated with our pathetic bandaid solutions up here. "oh you hurt??? Here's some pain pills" Don't bother to getting to the root of the problem and unfortuantely too many people learn this after they lose someone dear to them and it's too late. But hey, you get what you pay for.

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