oh.. isn't that the truth..
healthcare is an absolute farce in most cases as far as i'm concerned..
i know there is most likely a lot of stuff here i am not seeing, but i'll post the comments, and hopefully somebody can correct me if i'm wrong..
keep in mind, i live in ajax, and the closest hospital to me is all of a 5 minute walk... next to that, i'm looking at whitby, which isn't the greatest, or scarborough centenary.
when i fractured my wrist and caused damage to my muscles/tendons in it, i went to ajax. They told that it was just sprained, and to go home... this is after waiting 2 hours in the emergency room, with one other person... 2 HOURS, 1 PERSON.. people were walking around everywhere... i saw next to no patients but doctors in swarms having extended coffee breaks at 1am... none the less, i asked him...
"are you sure?... this seriously doesn't feel like a sprain"..
"no.. it's a sprain. there isn't anything we can do... go home now"
i went home.. couldn't sleep worth shit, so i went back at 5am, only we took the trip to scarborough
20 mins in the waiting room, and it was a fair lineup.. within 1.5 hours i was casted and had left the hospital.. this was fairly quick.. i know.. BUT, they took one look at it, and boom, sent me to the fracture clinic, where i just sat down and got casted... no waiting for doctors.. there was one there just doing everyone as they came in.. like an assembly line.. it was perfect
now.. story 2...
we go to wake up my girlfriend's daughter one mourning... her hand is twice it's regular size (she's approx 3.5 years old now). Ever see the nutty professor? when his hands balloon out? that's what it looked like... it was really bad looking... she was pale, and it hurt for us to put slight pressure on it..
we rushed her to emergency in ajax (seeing as whitby was closed!), and they got her into a room immediately. ok.... that's fine.. but they didn't really look at her all that quick.. ends up it's an allergic reaction.. (or so we are told, and have to assume). she ends up in child care, and is there 2 nights in a row i think... maybe 3... we stay by her side in shifts night and day as we trade off taking days off work, and trying to rest... it's a nightmare to say the least...
finally the doctor looks at her... he says it's a reaction of some sort... well DUH?!? fuck.. i could have said that dipshit... what is it a reaction to? let's do some tests.. make some statements..
he wouldn't do tests, wouldn't tell us what it could be.. nothing.. we told him outright she'd been playing in the garden and there was a possibility it could be either a bee, spider, mosquito, or ant that bit her, but it shouldn't make such a big swelling.... still.. no tests.
sure enough, 3-4 weeks later, it happens again!!! she's back in the hospital with the same thing... still no tests.. they give her some medicine to ease the swelling..
problem here... lazy doctors... they don't want to get to the root of the problem, just mask it.. they kept her a minimum of 2 nights... they spent enough money on that shit.. why not do some tests and possibly stop the chance of her coming back for a repeat episode..
health care is just fucked.. but at least we're not the states and have to pay for a majority of it..
