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>In Croatia (where I'm from) you will regularly wait for 6+ months on life altering procedures and tests. Anecdote meet anecdote: I had to wait over a year for
by techrat 5y ago
>In Croatia (where I'm from) you will regularly wait for 6+ months on life altering procedures and tests.
Anecdote meet anecdote: I had to wait over a year for life altering surgery. My first test after becoming a candidate was over 6 months out.
I'm in the US.
- reader_mode 5y agoThat sounds like a donor list thing ? I'm talking about more day to day stuff. Like recently my friend had a seizure while driving, thankfully he was at a red light, but lost his licence etc. He had to wait 2 and a half months for diagnostic scans. He went private and got it done in a week. Other friend had herniated disk, 6 months till his appointment with a specialist. Also went private and got surgery done in a month or so.
- techrat 5y agoNot a donor list thing. Had to wait months for scans, referrals and tests. All private.
- reader_mode 5y agoSorry didn't understand candidate part. Anyway - yeah I have no doubt private systems can get overloaded too, here if you have the money you have access to really good private system and low wait times, going public is guaranteed waiting list.
- midasuni 5y agoIn the US if you have money going private is the waiting list and you can’t jump the queue as everyone else has already paid.
- reader_mode 5y agoSounds like a bad deal, might be worth looking into medical tourism.