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Post by peeves on Sept 14, 2021 12:45:41 GMT -5
Impatient eh. Ok then you sit/lie in a hard narrow, gurney in the emerg. with blood running off your head and torn elbow,a knee swollen like a football a fractured wrist and possibly a concussion and you don't even get a Tylenol -band aid for 4- 5 hours, and yup, You can certainly be considered as inpatient. That is about as inane opinion as any might expect in such a situation. Our Health Care stinks. The solution? Admitting that and fixing it instead of playing politics. Other countries do better with less cost.
Cripes man what hospital did you go to. Is it in a third world country? How did you make it to the hospital? No Tylenol or band aid for 5 hours? Yup pretty much a third world experience...in Ontario Canada!
• Nota bene > Feb 16, 2017 B4 COVID delays which made it even worse. MY experience was also B4 COVId contribution to delays.
The report, part of a survey of residents in 11 countries sponsored by the U.S.-based Commonwealth Fund, shows 29 per cent of Canadians had to wait four hours or longer before being seen by a practitioner during their most recent emergency department visit.
That’s almost three times the international average of 11 per cent of patients who had to wait that long. Patients in France, Germany and the Netherlands fared the best, with one to four per cent reporting a four-hour-plus wait time.
Canada also topped the list for having the highest proportion of patients with long delays to see specialists, with 56 per cent waiting longer than four weeks, compared with the international average of 36 per cent, CIHI said. (I WAITED 4 MONTHS FOR A SPECIALIST APPOINTMENT< EYE/EAR/NOSE.)
"In seven out of eight measures of timely access to care, Canada was significantly below the international average."
"We’re not really seeing improvements over the last 10 years in timely access to care from a patient’s perspective."
Like I said, OUR health care stinks by comparison.
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Post by campy on Sept 15, 2021 10:48:01 GMT -5
Your personal experience is not necessarily the norm. When I go to the emergency I expect to wait but not with the same type of indifferent care you describe.
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Post by windy on Sept 15, 2021 12:31:11 GMT -5
It's been my experience that having a satisfactory encounter with Canadian health care all depends where you live, and how many other people are competing for the same service. I would expect places like Toronto and most of the golden horseshoe to be very busy and employees indifferent. Smaller centers with a staffed hospital are not under the same pressure and you can usually get attended to quickly, unless of course it's Friday or Saturday night after the bars close, then you take your chances.
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Post by peeves on Sept 15, 2021 14:07:27 GMT -5
Your personal experience is not necessarily the norm. When I go to the emergency I expect to wait but not with the same type of indifferent care you describe. As is usual you misconstrue post content to your own interpretation. This is about OUR health Care or fault and lack thereof
Did you even look at the poor report Canada has By comparison???
While you allude to "my experience", " my Impatience apparently you ignored the link/report/opinion cited. : "Canadians had to wait four hours or longer before being seen by a practitioner during their most recent emergency department visit.
That’s almost three times the international average of 11 per cent of patients who had to wait that long. Patients in France, Germany and the Netherlands fared the best, with one to four per cent reporting a four-hour-plus wait time. "Canada also topped the list for having the highest proportion of patients with long delays to see specialists, with 56 per cent waiting longer than four weeks, compared with the international average of 36 per cent, CIHI said. (I WAITED 4 MONTHS FOR A SPECIALIST APPOINTMENT< EYE/EAR/NOSE.) My experience according to stats is the norm.
Canada’s health-care wait times get failing grade in survey of 11 industrialized countries "We’re not really seeing improvements over the last 10 years in timely access to care from a patient’s perspective."
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Post by peeves on Sept 15, 2021 14:24:47 GMT -5
It's been my experience that having a satisfactory encounter with Canadian health care all depends where you live, and how many other people are competing for the same service. I would expect places like Toronto and most of the golden horseshoe to be very busy and employees indifferent. Smaller centers with a staffed hospital are not under the same pressure and you can usually get attended to quickly, unless of course it's Friday or Saturday night after the bars close, then you take your chances. That's pretty much the case. I've sat in the ER. with a patient screen showing how long you will likely wait and after two hours or so sitting with about 19 minutes left b4 seeing a Dr., a Saturday night vehicle crash victim(s) come in and the screen then shows you will have to wait 3 hours more. I realize trauma cases or strokes/heart attacks should get first treatment, but ipso facto our health care stinks. They should be required to bring in another team, nurse doctor.
I find the ER to be understaffed by nurses and Doctors. They were very cavalier in one of the hospitals we use but very conscientious in another 15 minutes away.
When you do get to see a Dr. the techs. in diagnostic imaging etc. are very professional and courteous. It's the ER that's our problem.( other than those that attempt to make it my personal bitch.) Studies all show that too many wait too long in the ER for any care. In my region there are hospitals in N.Falls- Welland- St Catharines -Port Colborne and Fort Erie. That's in an area of a max. of 25 miles apart. All have long ER wait times all too often. Golden Horseshoe indeed but too often the gild is rusting badly.
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