RE:Our medical system is broken and you need to have a plan Worst is yet to come. There is now a push for green agenda into medical field, a net zero healthcare. GHG emission from healthcare sector account for ~5% of total GHG emssion. Many medical professions fell for the climate cult, the same way they fell for the covid vaccine cult. Doctors will no longer see sick as patients but rather a high carbon footprint.
the green recommendation are just lunatic.
go to 4:05 for detail (ex. outgoing patients should take public transit home, doctors/nurses should ride bicycle to work, eliminate diesel generators needed for critical operations, lets make CT/NMR scanner locally to save cost, lets offer assistance dying instead of offering treatment/surgery, etc). Lunacy that inconvenience us is bearable but lunacy involving our lives has deadly consequences. If a sick patient an oxygen hog for survival, watch out, doctor will see him/her having high carbon footprint and an early termination candidate
[video=youtube;PdHcPbhl1i0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdHcPbhl1i0[/video]
Remember the movie 'logan run' where everyone must die at age of 30?
Obscure1 wrote: The medical system in Canada is BROKEN. Beyond broken actually.
Please bear with me as I relay my recent personal experience. I'm just one of tens or hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of Canadians that are in trouble.
Our family physician has been commuting from the GTA to our city 3 days per week for ten years. He told us he is exhausted and his family needs him so he decided to stop the 1.5 hour commute each day. As such he is no longer available to us unless we are willing to travel 1.5 hours for an appointment.
Our family doctor has 3,000 patients in our community. Those 3,000 patients are now without a doctor because there is nobody available to take over his practice. There are plenty of doctors in Canada who can't practice because they did not do their schooling in Canada. The foreign doctors have been pretty much sidelined for two years due to Covid protocols so they can't write the required exams or do internships.
If you are in a position of looking for a new doctor, you better hope that luck in on your side.
You can reach out to HealthCare Connect which is a system designed to help people connect with primary health care providers. Unfortunately, the system is overwhelmed and you have to HOPE that a doctor will reach out to you. You can imagine how well that is working out.
The HealtCare Connect system also provides a list of physicians in your area that you can contact. I started calling the doctor offices on the list. The answer from every office I contacted provided the same answer which was: "the doctor is not taking new patients". When questioned as to what advice they could give to help, they suggest contacting HealthCare Connect.
The the next step was to visit the local walk-in clinic. It is closed and the notice on the door says that they are not taking walk-ins unless you are already a patient of one of their listed physicians.
Apparently, walk-in clinics are all headed that way if they are not already there.
Our exiting family physician is taking one day per week off each week to travel to his old clinic to help patients transition. He does this on his own time and you have to call him on his personal line to book time. We met with him today, and there was a room full of patients ahead of us on a first come first serve basis. There was nobody answering the phone as there is no work for an assistant because there is no doctor. The pharmacist in the same location is fielding calls from the doctor's 3,000 patients as they are all in the dark. She doesn't have any answers about anything other than "the doctor is not in today". She is exhausted and frustrated and is quitting.
While at the office, the patients waiting for their turn were relating their experiences. One couple told us that they eventually found a doctor that might be able to fit them in, but they were told that they were too old. Old people need more care.
Every patient was nervous that they wouldn't be able to get health care going forward.
My wife needs hip surgery which is deemed an elective surgery. Virtually all elective surgeries were cancelled during Covid. That means there is a two year back log. If you have a family doctor who can refer you to a surgeon, it takes a couple of months to see the surgeon if you are willing to show up when there is a cancellation. Once my wife met the surgeon, who verified that she needs the surgery, she was informed that the surgeon was only allowed to book out OR time in three month blocks. When the 3 month block was ending, my wife called and was told she was not scheluded for the next block. When she asked when she might be included on the list, she was told to keep calling in every three months. After talking to the doctor's office manager for awhile, the person offered that the timing would be at leat a year and maybe two years.
Canadians without a family physician are in a real pickle. Canada has a massive shortage of doctors and those that are still around are at their limit. Doctors are quitting and it is going to get worse. Doctors are used to being hand held from the day they enter medical school so they have little if any practical business experience. Their staffs are quitting as they are exhausted as well from dealing with the overwhelming dissatisfaction of the patients. When a doctor loses staff, they are totally ill-equipped to manage on their own.
The problem is getting worse and worse by the day. Every time a doctor or staff member gives up what they consider to be insane lives, the pressure just mounts.
It has now gotten to the point that if you need to see a doctor and you don't have a family physician, you have to go to Emergency at your hospital. The wait time ranges from two hours if you are extremely lucky to eight hours or more.
Need a prescription? Be prepared to take a day off work.
Have to pick up the kids from school before your name is called? Sorry!
When you do get into see a doctor, if you need a referral, that can take months. If you need surgery, that can take years.
What do you do if:
a) You have a family physician. Make sure that you find out about their future plans in terms of moving or retirement. Has the doctor arranged for a succession plan? If not, get your doctor thinking about it before another 3,000 patients get dumped into the abyss.
b) You don't have a family physician. Get started today on a plan of action.