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Originally Posted by edslunch

I understand the frustration of not being able to help someone in a difficult medical situation. I made a much less critical or costly decision to pay for an MRI for my daughter's chronic port-concussion issues. I understand the argument of a paid-tier taking pressure off the public tier, but would be concerned about it draining already scarce medical staff from the public system.

The root of the problem is that what you experienced is unacceptable but governments and the medical community seem unable to deal with it. I've yet to hear any comprehensive analysis of the system, it's bottlenecks, and opportunities for efficiencies. Efficiencies that promoters of private care assure us are there.

Alberta prides itself on having top notch engineering and technical capabilities, as evidenced by the success of the oil sands, etc. It's time to turn the medical system problem over to the engineers. No, not to come up with better treatments, but to de-bottleneck and rationalize the system top to bottom. We're good at that kind of stuff, and there's no shortage of subject matter experts to work with in the medical community. We need a moonshot program for the health system and get the best minds in the province working on it.

Ok, maybe a crazy idea, but I'll wait for someone to tell me a better one.

As an engineer I want to say thanks for the acknowledgement. Also as an engineer, are you on drugs? Haha