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Originally Posted by Azure
Lame excuse. The 'clinic' I was at doesn't preform life saving treatments. If went to a major hospital I wouldn't expect to get treated for something so minor. But that is why clinics exist. That is why you're supposed to be able to go there, get treated, and leave within a reasonable amount of time without holding anyone back from having their 'life' saved.
I'm not expecting the system to be perfect. But I'm not seeing an attempt to make it better either. All I'm seeing is arrogant excuses of how I should quit complaining and accept the 6 hour wait because no system is 'perfect.'
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missed this post when i wrote my previous response (apologies). nevertheless, emergencies do happen even in family doctors offices (i know from personal experience). our system is not without fault and would benefit from a much greater focus on primary care as oppossed to focusing on arbitrary targets like MRI wait times, emergency wait times or surgical wait times. those all stem from primary care access. that being said, those same targets have no actual impact (or minimal) on determinants of health for a population, and when it comes to determinants of health, canada trumps the usa in almost every conceivable way. should we be looking for change to the system, absolutely, but the usa system should be the last place we look at for advice. if anything, we should be looking towards systems in scandinavia, france and japan (just some examples).
/rant