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I live in Canada and have waited 4 months for a specialist at great personal cost (but not financial cost). I have also seen my mother suffer for 6 months on a
by aianus 7y ago
I live in Canada and have waited 4 months for a specialist at great personal cost (but not financial cost).
I have also seen my mother suffer for 6 months on a surgery wait list and then recover slowly and painfully in a room with 4 other people who were constantly screaming during the night. And she was a lucky one because the hospital was so overcrowded that other patients were living, sleeping, and recovering in the literal hallway. Google "hallway medicine Ontario" to see I'm not making this up.
It's not a perfect system by any stretch and it's much better than nothing but I bet upper-middle-class and above citizens in the USA enjoy better care.
- johnpowell 7y agoI live in the United States and in June of last year I was told to make a appointment with a ear, nose, and throat doctor. So I called and was told the earliest they could see me was in October. I started chemo before my original appointment with that doctor. (Yes, it was mouth and neck cancer)