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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (3604)	8/11/2011 1:20:38 AM
From: E. Charters	1 Recommendation Respond to of 3744

Canada is an excellent place to get misdiagnosed for just about any disease. Only 35% of CDNs have family doctors. You can walk in clinics and get 5 minutes of med care, and blood tests. Finding a competent physician who can stay with your history is like looking for a needle that's lost in the sand. (Rag Mama - Tom Rush) You have harried overworked medics warehousing patients for trivialities. If you want expert diagnosis for a disease that is not obvious but disturbingly symptomatic over time, you are free to watch yourself die while doctors tell you there is nothing wrong with you. Take two lipitor and call me in the morning is the standard for anyone over 50. This is a byproduct of Tommy Douglas' socialized medicine. Although technically for many years help for emerge cases was much harder to get in the states, and long term, or chronic care could get very expensive, the standard of medical care is far and aw better in the USA than in Canada. A friend of mine started pre public company just to send people to the states for better med care. While I don't think HMO's are the answer either, I think our care is far too expensive for the tax payer. I once stayed at a semi private ward after an operation in 1967. It was a private, doctor-run hospital in Canada when they were legal. It was run by a team of 30 joint specialists who were at the top of their craft. The semi private ward cost us $150 per day, for three days. The operation was about $500.00 Expensive for the day. But a public ward in Canada at the time cost the taxpayer $450.00 per diem. I kid you not. The doctors could cut the costs by 65% and provide better service. So what did Ontario do? Outlaw private hospitals that operated under medicare. They were cutting the government's grass. It was verboten. You might get a private sliver and die from privatosis medicosis. Instead of C. Difficile that you get from the public death traps today. You could die in Canada waiting for an MRI today. (6 months) Many have died being sent to the "wrong" emergency clinic. Ab el publicos ad el diabolum.