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Originally Posted by Table 5
Funny you say that, since Ive come to realize how good health care in Canada really is. I don't even dare to go to a doctor in the US unless it's absolutely necessary, since the insurance companies here send you to the crappiest holes possible.
The system in Canada is far from perfect, but I trust that system much more than I do the one here.
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Its increasingly rare to find a "good" doctor in Canada too. Most of them move to the US for a pay raise (deservingly too... 2 of the 3 family doctors I've had that were really good left for the US), the rest have family practices and are next to impossible to get into.
When my family doctor was unavailable, I went to a walk-in to see if my hip flexor strain was actually a hernia. This dufus said it was and also said I had high blood pressure and wanted to put me on pills. I'm 22.
I was able to get into my family doctor a few days later. I didn't have a hernia (took her 10 seconds to figure that out... sent me for an ultrasound anyway to be absolutely sure) and my blood pressure was 120/80. A more trusting person would have accepted the original doctor's prognosis, and not only be put under the knife for nothing, but probably been very sick and maybe died from unneeded blood pressure pills. I thought of charging that quack with malpractice, but there isn't much of a point.