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Originally Posted by redforever
Well, in a lot of cases, we have closed hospitals because of the ineptitude of many provinces building hospitals in every little Tom, Dick and Harry town that could never convince 2 doctors to come to their town, let alone come to their town so the hospital could actually be opened. Do some research on what Saskatchewan did towards those endeavors.
That I can speak of personally. A hospital was built in a town 10 miles to the east of where I lived. To this day, it has never even performed a routine tonsilectomy. You need 2 doctors (in case one has a problem, the other can take over) to do any kind of procedures and the town (think 650 people) was never able to attract one doctor full time, let alone two doctors full time. It is a quasi medical center now.
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My experience in B.C. has been the opposite. Hospitals and operating rooms have closed down. All the specialists have been moved to the largest cities. All but, the most simple procedures require a 5 1/2 hour drive through the mountains. Often it is months before you get an appointment with a specialist. They order tests and then you wait another couple months for a second appointment. The driving is hard on the elderly and the waiting sometimes kills.