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> Did not ever have any problems in Calgary, Vancouver, or Edmonton; can't speak to the eastern parts of the country. Care will also be different if you're in a
by nucleardog 3y ago
> Did not ever have any problems in Calgary, Vancouver, or Edmonton; can't speak to the eastern parts of the country. Care will also be different if you're in a big city, 2nd tier city, or small town, and often not in the ways that you think.
No problems for me either in the prairies or Vancouver. Hell, I was in Vancouver two years and found myself a doctor _twice_ in that time, requiring exactly two phone calls. No idea what everyone was bitching about.
Then I moved to Ontario (not Toronto). Heard the same complaints I’d heard for years and gave them little credence.
Yeah it’s impossible to find a doctor out here. My “family doctor” managing chronic conditions is the telehealth doctor. Even the walk in clinics have all gone patients/appointment only and every one I’ve called has stopped maintaining a waitlist at all because it was uselessly long (tried clinics in the city, in and around our small town over an hour away, and basically everywhere else). Some of the hospitals haven’t been able to keep their ERs open 24 hours. Which is unfortunate because any medical care we need that can’t be handled over a video chat a week from now is basically a visit to the ER at this point.
Then we keep electing the government whose solution is to continue to mismanage the entire system towards privatization and implementing a provincially managed waitlist. I’ve been on it a couple of years now. I’ve talked to other people that have been on it over five years. They send me a letter every six months asking me to let them know if I’ve managed to find a doctor so they can remove me and my daughter from the list.