Every so often, you run across an op ed which is a perfect example of “seeing, and yet not seeing”. It amazes me that this doctor can work every day in the collapsing single payer medical system and yet not recognize that it is precisely the stubborn adherence to this doctrine that is causing the collapse. He claims to desire “real action, real change”, but cannot or will not expand on his weary bromide.
Long gone are the days of the early pandemic, when our neighbours banged their pots and pans in appreciation every evening. Now we are yelled at every single shift about the long wait times. We are verbally and physically assaulted so regularly that the B.C. provincial health authority recently mandated violence-prevention training. All these things, it’s just too much.
I thought the unrestricted immigration policy of this federal government was to allow doctors and highly skilled workers to help with the needs of the system?
Ha. Who told you that?
Mass immigration is contributing in a major way to the problem. Federal government is doing nothing to boost infrastructure commensurate with the mass immigration they are imposing(I’ve asked). All they will do is pass the buck to the provinces.
Age structure of immigration, btw, is also not very different from the general Canadian population’s age structure. Check out a citizenship ceremony and see all the elderly immigrants (being reunited with their families and a medical system they have never much contributed to. )
Some doctors are getting wealthy playing the current system. They are against reforms and will get Wretched Knothead to help stop it.
I personally now avoid doctors here as much as is possible and I have begun seeking alternative ways to get care. After the pandemic I simply don’t trust Canadian doctors anymore. I now know that they can’t speak honestly to me because our government will take their license away and they have to recommend the poison mRNA gene therapy contaminated with dsDNA and an undisclosed SV40 promoter or else. If I have an adverse reaction they can’t report it. They are also bound by Big Pharma standards of care so they will push drugs on me that won’t help me and have side effects. Trust is therefore destroyed. I spend a lot of time reading the medical literature and trying to figure things out for myself. This includes going to an osteopath and doing telephone care via private USA physician services. (There are some excellent services that way if you are willing to pay and I am.) I have been on a waiting list for a family doctor for nearly two years now. The system is not just breaking down, it is broken.
I’ve had reason to go to my local clinic a couple of times in the last two months. The reception area has four (FOUR!) LGBTQ+ pride flags at the front desk. And many, many warning signs saying “No photos, no recording in these premises.” Also, signs warning about abusive language, etc., etc. etc. If you remark about any of these things, you lose your doctor and the services of the clinic. So everyone stays silent, as a family doctor is a very rare thing these days.
You sure this wasn’t a branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia?
+++Pappy
Well he only “works” 15 days out of the month… It’s not clear if that’s his doing or his employer
Another “Woe is me!” story from the medical fraternity/ sorority. How about all you brain and heart surgeons get together and discuss the real reason we are now a third world medical country. The problems we face in medicine today can be solved relatively quickly. When we faced the crisis of deporting 700 medical students a while back did anybody question the number of foreign medical students that were being educated here in Canada. Every international student means one less Canadian student. Then there is the other unspoken problem of how much foreign aid is given away every year that could have been spent here in Canada to maintain our crumbling infrastucture. How many taxpayer dollars have been wasted on projects in third world countries where we have no control over how they are spent. Compassion, like charity begins at home, so spare me the hardluck stories about how our medical system is going to hell in a handcart. If you want to solve the problem address the issue, and the bottom line is Canadians cannot solve the world’s problems, no matter how well meaning, until we solve our own problems. Until we solve the problems here we need to stop foreign aid and stop immigration.
I think it was 2018 when Saudi Arabia withdrew 800 medical students from Canada’s universities. 800 foreign students from one country and Canadians can’t find a doctor and if they do he is from sub-Sarah Africa, likely a graduate of Robert Mugabi University. What in hell is happening in Canada?
Quadruple-jabbed in-law stopped by yesterday. “That’s it! No more shots for me! The doctors are getting money from the drug companies to inject us. It’s all about money!”
As Justin Burch has noted above, there’s more to it than that. But hey, for this in-law, the statement represented a Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus moment.
Really? That’s what did it for them?
Wait until he or she discovers the shots they took didn’t stop them from getting or spreading the “virus”, not to mention they are now at risk of anything on the 6 pages of possible side effects.
Heh. Methinks they may be catching on to that too. Who knows, perhaps it’s the real reason for this sudden doubt and mistrust.
About 6,000 B.C. health care workers were fired for refusing the clot shot. This was despite the abysmal efficacy of Covid-19 “vaccines” in prevention of transmission of or infection with Covid-19, a fact that was well known by Canadian health bureaucracies. So well known was this fact that matrices had been published which could be used by health authorities to calculate how many infections could be avoided in the workplace by excluding unvaccinated health care workers (https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211214/Evaluating-the-exclusion-of-unvaccinated-people-in-the-prevention-of-SARS-CoV-2-transmission.aspx).
The B.C. NDP fired 6,000 healthcare workers to avoid two infections. This calculation does not take into account the immunity that many of these employees may have gained from previous infection. All these fired healthcare workers have found employment elsewhere, many out of province.
The mess that B.C. finds itself in stems directly from the actions of the Fascistic provincial NDP and it’s imbecilic enablers in the federal NDP/Liberal coalition government.
Here I was, thinking all along that the real imbecilic enablers were urban voters. 🙂
“About 6,000 B.C. …”
When I saw that, the first thing I thought was “That long ago ?”……………
Seems like only yesterday.
My first experience with the US health system in Waupaca Wisconsin, my wife hurt her knee and I took her to emergency at Riverside Hospital. They took her in immediately and gave her a private room in which I waited while she was treated. While there I watched the gold medal Olympic hockey game between the US and Canada. In Thunder Bay at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, we’d be in the waiting room for hours and/or she’d be lying on a gurney in a hallway and would never have gotten that kind of service. Her insurance covered it, by the way. You wonder why people are yelling at you?
I remember a story a few years back from Quebec. A man came in the hospital with abdominal pain. He was obviously a Quebecker, but didn’t have his health card. They turned him away so he went to get his card. He died on the way back, apparently from a ruptured appendix. So the health system investigated itself and found no problem. They had followed proper procedure. Yes, a man that paid into the system all his life died as a result of the hospital following “proper procedures”. It never occurred to them that perhaps the procedures needed to be reviewed.
Yet many Canadians would believe that being turned away without treatment is a regular occurrence in the USA.
Honestly, it’s all they hear. Yet even people who haveto deal woth the NHS in Jolly Olde will tell you what complete trash the Candian system is.
And in case anyone out there thinks this is a new problem, in 1980 when I was a kid, we were forced to wait almost 12 hours to see a doctor for a bleeding head injury. Probably explains some things now, but this has been ridiculous for as long as anyone can remember and it’s never got better. Although they did get to me pretty quickly in 2014 when it looked like I might lose a limb, I’ll give them that. Still took a couple of years before I was done with all the surgeries.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill.
“A five minute conversation with a doctor is the best argument against universal healthcare”.
Another “Educated, not Smart” GenZ.
You love socialism, help yourself to it you dumb bish.
My daughter graduated an RN in Ontario. Worked the COVID unit when in school in total.almost 2 yrs. Could not handle the mess that the idiot Hospital Managers did, chronic understaffing, sometimes she looked after 12 patients.
She left Nursing and the Shithole Province of Glorious Ontario.
They need to get Dr’s out of Management.
All Canadians should ask themselves:
What kind of Government does not allow its citizens to pay for their own healthcare, with their own money, in their own country, if they so choose?
A government hidebound by socialist ideology, i.e. Canada.
Went to An ER in Texas. I had, as it turns out, a splinter in my eye. Doc saw me right away, say you have a foreign body in your eye, you need to see an opthamalogist. I said just here for few days, can you give me a letter I can take home to get in line to see one. He looked at me like a dog when you say something they don’t get. He said the doctor is upstairs waiting for you, 15 minutes later, splinter gone. Insurance covered it.
Our? government is responsible to supply jobs to whoever falls out of college and university.. Anything less would be racist or misogynistic.. Why is out healthcare front end so bloated?.. What’s the rush on green energy?..
Its whats falling out of our? schools.. Central planning with no plan at all.. Unemployment numbers down.. Zombie economy up.. The politicians are just working with what they got.. Fluffing it up like it’s a good thing..
Our? economy serves higher education.. They are the ones running the show.. Covid proved that without a doubt.. They dropped the mask when they insisted that we wear one..
Drs get the treatment they richly deserve.