People know that health care in Canada is cheap for it's people BUT it has disadvantages.
Unfortunately we needed to spend time in the ER from the Foothills hospital here in Calgary.
We got there at 7 p.m. and we left at 11.30 a.m. and it took them till 7 to even make an effort to do something and that took them still till 10 a.m. before it happened. But i am not complaining about that what made me want to complain is something else.
Imagine you are sick and you need help and you go to the ER then you expect help. In the hours and hours i spend at the ER i noticed that a lot (guess 40 - 50%) of the people that come in at night end up going home without being seen by a doctor.
There was even a guy that came by ambulance but after 4 hours decided to go home and guess what he came back again by ambulance the next morning.
Or people that are just waiting to get admitted. So you are in lots and lots of pain but there is no bed for you. The average wait yesterday was 68 hours. So you are sitting there in pain waiting for 68 hours to get a bed. Is that gone help your health?
I know that the health care system in Calgary is under way to much pressure but i guess there are ways to make it better without needing more doctors and get me right i don't mean we need more doctors but the system that is in place now is not very efficient.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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