Just talked my with my last pdoc clinic. Its ridiculous that I need to do a phone interview so they can decide if I really need a pdoc. I told them I was followed at their clinic before and I am diagnosed with sz, they didn’t care. On top of that I had to convince my family dr to give me a psychiatric consultation paper and now I have to do an interview to see if my symptoms need a pdoc. All this is to have access to a pdoc. I don’t have a pdoc since Jan 2021.
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From this website I get the impression that in a lot of countries the system is broken.
Here you can just directly make an appointment with a pdoc. There are plenty of them and usually it takes a couple of weeks not months to get an appointment.
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I had to get a referral from a therapist to get in to see a pdoc and it was about a 2 month wait.
Otherwise it was a 1.5 year wait
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So in efficient
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Yea before I got diagnosed with sz I wanted to see a pdoc and the gp told me I had to wait at least a year to see one. Its ridiculous.
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They say health care is free in Canada but in reality we pay it with our very high taxes and even then the service sucks.
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In Belgium it’s not entirely free. You get more or less 80% of the costs back from public insurance. You get more back if you have a lot of medical costs or if you’re very poor.
We also pay a lot of taxes, but I’m okay with the healthcare system here.
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That was pre-covid and before the recent spiraling inflation that have been banging the crap out of everyone’s mental health. Expect a longer wait now.
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My cousin is Canadian and I have a feeling he’s not getting the best quality care to treat his mental health issues.
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But imagine if you can’t afford healthcare.
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Yeah thankfully i have a gov pdoc that i can see within a week of booking now. Getting to that point took years
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Doesn’t matter if you’re dead before care is offered.
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Nothing like the pacemaker you are dependent on in the process of failing and your “elective” pacemaker replacement surgery getting repeatedly cancelled.
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That’s horrendous.
That’s normal. I have a hard time understanding why everyone thinks our healthcare is so great? I guess it is if you can get some.
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Because here you’re left with nothing but the ER as a primary for some just because they don’t turn away the uninsured or too poor to pay.
Our healthcare is great for a general doctor checkup. Everything else is huge waitlist.
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Thought this was an interesting article. Canada is not in the list though.
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Many Drs here go work in the US as there the salary is higher and you pay much less taxes.
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Wow a Dr in Mexico makes 12000$/year, its less than our disability.
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