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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: September 6, 2022, 12:53 pm
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Starting to think the GP's office is rather unorganized.
Supposedly a GI refferal was sent a little over a year ago, but
I never heard anything about it, I followed up at the end of
last year and GP said likely a 9-12 month wait so I just waited,
in June decided to follow up again told the refferal had been
sent just waiting for the GI docs office to make an appointment.
Decided in July and told again that all was good.
Decided to follow up today again, this time the GP front office
say's they don't see any refferal ever being sent, and I have
been on hold for an hour while they try and find out if it was
or was not sent.
GP's offices are often understaffed and overworked and
everything relies on printing and faxing, would be nice if the
province could design a universal system all doctors use so
records, and refferals could be sent electronically, seems like
it would cut down on errors and lost refferals.
I honestly would not be surprised if they got me confused with
another person again, has happened on several occassions, there
is someone with same name and birth month and day (but born in
1980 vs me in 1979) that the office consistently mixes us up, I
have gone in for appointments and the doctor thinks I am the
other person.
Might be time doctors offices ask to see and verify personal
healthcare numbers each visit, generally you show it once and
never again.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: September 8, 2022, 5:57 pm
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Angus Reed poll indicates that nearly 60% of BC residents find
it difficult to access a doctor.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/angus-reid-institute-doctor-access-bc-1.6575386
Nationwide 6 million adults do not have a family doctor.
In BC nearly 1 million residents have no family doctor.
Only 14% reported having easy access to a doctor.
"The responses paint a picture where "the system seems to work
for 14 per cent of Canadian adults or 4.4 million Canadians,"the
report noted.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: Siouxie Date: September 8, 2022, 9:12 pm
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[quote author=jsmth321 link=topic=281.msg6369#msg6369
date=1662677824]
Angus Reed poll indicates that nearly 60% of BC residents find
it difficult to access a doctor.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/angus-reid-institute-doctor-access-bc-1.6575386
Nationwide 6 million adults do not have a family doctor.
In BC nearly 1 million residents have no family doctor.
Only 14% reported having easy access to a doctor.
"The responses paint a picture where "the system seems to work
for 14 per cent of Canadian adults or 4.4 million Canadians,"the
report noted.
[/quote]
It's even worse in Ontario.
HTML https://www.sudbury.com/beyond-local/finding-a-family-doctor-in-ontario-hard-and-getting-harder-5509935#
[quote]1.3 million people
According to Statistics Canada, 1.3 million people in the
province currently don't have a family physician -- an issue
which experts say is and will continue to impact the healthcare
system as a whole.
Finding a family doctor in Ontario hard and getting
harder[/quote]
I'm one of the 1.3 million - my doctor has had to retire due to
ill health.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: September 8, 2022, 9:53 pm
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It will only get worse there just aren't enough young people to
fill the demand.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: September 9, 2022, 5:23 pm
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Had a GP appointment for tomorrow, they called to cancel it
today.
May as well not even have a GP at this point because majority of
the appointments that I make are cancelled by them.
Now next one isn't until October 1st.
I have been trying to see her since early August.
Yep, such a wonderful system.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: Siouxie Date: September 10, 2022, 12:02 am
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[quote author=jsmth321 link=topic=281.msg6391#msg6391
date=1662762230]
Had a GP appointment for tomorrow, they called to cancel it
today.
May as well not even have a GP at this point because majority of
the appointments that I make are cancelled by them.
Now next one isn't until October 1st.
I have been trying to see her since early August.
Yep, such a wonderful system.
[/quote]
It sounds as if your doctor is being unprofessional and
unreliable.. - which isn't the systems fault, it's hers. Have
you considered making a formal complaint to the college?
HTML https://www.cpsbc.ca/public/complaints
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: caretaker Date: September 10, 2022, 7:28 am
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[quote author=Siouxie link=topic=281.msg6395#msg6395
date=1662786145]
It sounds as if your doctor is being unprofessional and
unreliable.. - which isn't the systems fault, it's hers. Have
you considered making a formal complaint to the college?[/quote]
Would that get him blacklisted? Not that that would be
unprofessional, of course, but it sounds like doctoring there is
a real seller's market. My doctor moved from the poor little
clinic in the hood here to a shiny modern one in a nearby area
that's had several incarnations as clinic and radiology centre,
political constituency office, and is now fixed up for a few
practices. She likes it, and I'm not sure if she still takes
walk-ins but wouldn't doubt it. When I want to see her I phone
and usually get in within a few days.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: September 12, 2022, 7:44 pm
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A woman in BC suffered a stroke and had to wait over an hour for
paramedics to arrive.
"Over the next hour and a half, Williams lay on the floor as the
friend and two neighbours tried to comfort her and manage her
symptoms."
Call received at 8:09 p.m and paramedics arrived at 9:18 p.m.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-woman-stroke-answers-1.6574074
"Paramedic staffing shortages are largely the result of wage
disparities between paramedics and other public safety jobs like
police, fire and health."
Bet if the province paid paramedics the same as what Vancouver
Police or Fire Fighters make there wont be a shortage of
paramedics anymore.
Funy how there isn't a shortage of police or fire but one group
is paid well and the other group not so well.
Vancouver Fire pay is $69,204 for the first 4 months than raises
until reaching $98,868 by year 4.
Vancouver Police start at $77,983 going to $83,793 at 1 year, to
$89,376 at year 2, $100,542 at year 3, and $111,709 at year 4.
BC Paramedics median annual salary is $59,690/yearly.
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: Siouxie Date: September 13, 2022, 12:14 am
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Perhaps they get higher pay because Police and Firefighters put
their lives at risk when at work, whereas paramedics don't...
I was shocked to read that some paramedics are on 'standby' pay
unless a call comes in for them to go!
HTML https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/two-bucks-an-hour-the-base-rate-of-pay-for-many-bc-paramedics
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Re: Medical Matters / Health Matters (split from Random Stuff)
By: jsmth321 Date: September 22, 2022, 11:04 am
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26 specialists in BC write letter to health minister about
crumbling BC healthcare.
HTML https://vancouversun.com/health/local-health/adrian-dix-open-letter-crumbling-health-care-system-bc
Doctors watching patients die on wait lists.
1 million BC residents on some sort of wait list including me
with wait lists only getting worse.
The doctors felt it necessary to write the open letter as the
government has been unwilling to talk to doctors.
Examples of patients in the letter include;
A patient who had a sudden loss of hearing and is permanently
impaired due to having to wait.
More than 16,000 patients waiting for an echocardiogram in
Vancouver Coastal Health alone.
Patients in Vacouver and Vancouver Island waiting 2 to 3 months
to see an oncologist after a cancer diagnoses (with cancer time
is crucial, a 2 or 3 month wait to see an oncologist and begin
treatment could be the difference between living or dying.)
The only respirologist in northern BC has had to close her
practice to new patients because the back log is so long.
Patients waiting weeks for lab results as the labs are so backed
up.
I was reffered to a GI doctor in late summer 2021, it is now
late summer 2022 and I am told I likely wont get an appointment
until 2023 sometime.
Hell it takes a month or more just to get an appointment with
the GP in person.
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