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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: Canadian Health Care for the Non-Canadian |
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw
Sadly this is basically what happens.
Dimitri
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Pumpkinslinger Super Member
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject: Re: Canadian Health Care for the Non-Canadian |
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I once had a doctor's office tell me that I had to wait a week to see him when I was sick. I asked them if I would be charged for missing the appointment if I died before it occured...
I also changed doctors immediately.
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: Re: Canadian Health Care for the Non-Canadian |
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Changing doctors here is a multi-year event just as the vedio suggested.
Dimitri
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: Canadian Health Care for the Non-Canadian |
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Yesterday at the hospital.
Arrive at the hospital and pay 5.00$ for parking (1 hour) 4:15pm.
Arrive in the ER and have to wait to get triaged 4:20pm.
Get Triaged 4:40pm
Get Registered in the hospital 4:50pm
Wait for "Ambulatory Care" 4:55pm
Go pay for more parking 7.50$ (hour and a half) 5:15pm
Get put in a room 5:45pm
See a doctor for approximately 3 minutes 6:20pm
Have the nurse patch up the eye 6:35pm
Leave the hospital at 6:40pm.
Dimitri
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Pumpkinslinger Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: Canadian Health Care for the Non-Canadian |
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That's actually not too bad, but parking would be free for the ER here.
So, what did you do to your eye??
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Canadian Health Care for the Non-Canadian |
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I did nothing, my dad got a piece of rope in his eye when we were tying some boxes I shipped from Greece on the bed of my pick up truck.
There were people who waited longer then us, and the hospital was almost empty. We lucked out as there is only one Optometrist in the ER, and we were the only eye related injury that he needed to attend to.
Dimitri
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