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Its not just Canada. Healthcare in small town USA is godawful. Just had a friend die after months and mobths if doctirs visits where ghey just kicked the can do

Its not just Canada. Healthcare in small town USA is godawful. Just had a friend die after months and mobths if doctirs visits where ghey just kicked the can down the road. Then ended up in the hospital. Then multi organ failure. Then, finally, a correct diagnoses. A treatable fungal infection. Died shortly after the diagnosis. Happens every day.

skissane 2y ago
It is the same thing in Australia. If you live in a major city, or not too far away from one (say an hour or two), you'll probably be fine. If you live 8 hours from the nearest major city, greatly increased odds you will die from easily preventable things because nobody gets around to running basic diagnostic tests until way too late – because there aren't enough medical and nursing staff to manage the patient workload, because specialists aren't available and so less obvious things get missed, etc. There is also a huge culture of cover-up (middle and senior managers try to hide mistakes to avoid lawsuits and to try not to embarrass the politicians in charge of the public health system)
- boppo1 2y ago
  >coverup Yeah, I'm in the burbs and My neighbor's wife died like this. They gave her something obviously wrong, (some thick orange drink iirc?) and when they questioned it the tech insisted it was necessary for a diagnostic of some sort. According to my neighbor, she went very south about 2-3 minutes after consuming it and was dead in a couple hours. He is unable to get any documentation from the hospital about what the substance was, who ordered it, etc. This was 2ish years ago.
  - DontchaKnowit 2y ago
    The hospital is absolutely required to provide that information and if they cannot in a timely manner (like 2 months iirc? Been a while since I worked for an EHR) they are subject to very hefty fines and basically paint a big red malpractice lawsuit target on their head. Hope your neighbor went after them.
    - boppo1 2y ago
      I think he started to but it wasn't going well. I haven't caught up with him about it.
- DontchaKnowit 2y ago
  Yes also every single layer of healthcare is gatekept in order to extract an additional copay before the next stage of treatment.
  - worik 2y ago
    Not in Australia or Canada

skissane 2y ago

It is the same thing in Australia. If you live in a major city, or not too far away from one (say an hour or two), you'll probably be fine. If you live 8 hours from the nearest major city, greatly increased odds you will die from easily preventable things because nobody gets around to running basic diagnostic tests until way too late – because there aren't enough medical and nursing staff to manage the patient workload, because specialists aren't available and so less obvious things get missed, etc. There is also a huge culture of cover-up (middle and senior managers try to hide mistakes to avoid lawsuits and to try not to embarrass the politicians in charge of the public health system)

boppo1 2y ago
>coverup Yeah, I'm in the burbs and My neighbor's wife died like this. They gave her something obviously wrong, (some thick orange drink iirc?) and when they questioned it the tech insisted it was necessary for a diagnostic of some sort. According to my neighbor, she went very south about 2-3 minutes after consuming it and was dead in a couple hours. He is unable to get any documentation from the hospital about what the substance was, who ordered it, etc. This was 2ish years ago.
- DontchaKnowit 2y ago
  The hospital is absolutely required to provide that information and if they cannot in a timely manner (like 2 months iirc? Been a while since I worked for an EHR) they are subject to very hefty fines and basically paint a big red malpractice lawsuit target on their head. Hope your neighbor went after them.
  - boppo1 2y ago
    I think he started to but it wasn't going well. I haven't caught up with him about it.
DontchaKnowit 2y ago
Yes also every single layer of healthcare is gatekept in order to extract an additional copay before the next stage of treatment.
- worik 2y ago
  Not in Australia or Canada