Literally way harder than any other country I've lived in. Nobody is taking new patients

It doesn't make sense because I thought everybody here tries to not go to the doctors as much as possible because of the costs

USA literally has a higher doctor per capita than all the other countries I've lived in too

What gives?

  • Slaanesh [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Canadian here, in our provinces continued push for private healthcare, family doctors are pretty much dead and waiting lists for even clinics are now a year+ in length. You could go to a private clinic, pay out of pocket and talk to a (I'm not fucking kidding) tablet with a nurse who can then suggest you to see a doctor on call. But if you can't describe it well enough, say a rash or something, they can not take the video feed as sufficient medical evidence, so they may just tell you to try coming back another day when they have a nurse in office.

    I am lucky enough to have a family doctor, however he delivered me, and I am no longer a young man, so he will retire at some point and it doesn't look like he will be transferring his patients cause there's no one to transfer them to. This country is fucked, primeieres have figured out how to destroy healthcare and our federal govt is too lib to address the issue, open up the constitution, and fix this fucking shit.