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Northern Ontario Healthcare
Nov. 12th, 2004 07:08 pmWhile I really am not enjoying Lit. Crit. class at all this term, interesting points do get raised in it. Last day we were discussing medical care in the north.... now our prof divided it as male DR's are incompetent and female ones aren't.... which was so off but whatever, as I've said before, it's hard to tell if he's an ass to get our attention and make us comment... or if he's just an ass...
Really it's just the medical care in the north is terribly bad. Sudbury is the number one city in Canada for doing hysterectomies... not because more women need them but because the DR's just don't want to do the tests needed to see if you actually need one or not... so any problems you have that can be solved by removing the uterus... that's what'd done. There are people who have simple things like systs (sists?... I totally can't spell) who are told that they'll die if they don't have their uterus removed... WTF is that!????
Oh and cesareans... Doctors up here schedule them all of the time, regardless of if the patient wants a natural birth....why? Because they don't want to be called in on the weekends or on hours they have off to deliver the baby. I always thought that if you decided to be a DR who delivered babies you'd just automatically be expecting to work some pretty odd shifts some days.... but apparently not so much in the north.
I am SO glad that I don't live up here. I wouldn't want my rights as a patient to be taken away from me.
Oh more stories about this. One girl in our class told us about the two major issues her mother had had with the Doctors up here...
Firstly she'd gone in with her neck hurting every time she bent it in a certain way. You know that joke "doctor, it hurts when I do this" "don't do that" ... that was how her appointment went. It turned out that her mother had M.S.
Then some time later she'd gone in with stomach pains, she specifically asked if it could be cancer... she was told no. No tests were done. It was cancer and she passed away from it.
I just don't get how this is an okay standard of practice. I know there aren't enough doctors in the north anyways... but to have the few ones here be totally incompetent... it's just a worthless system. If I get really sick and can possibly make it south I'm not getting helped here. Oh, excepting our on campus doctor, she's AMAZING! The on campus doctors office is one thing about LU I can't find any fault with, they're fantastic.
Other than that.... not going into the healthcare system here. I'd hate to think of what they'd do to me if I went in with my stress stomach aches which present exactly like appendicitus... the only reason I didn't get operated on in TO the first time I went in was because they did a TON of tests to be sure of what was wrong before they operated. And still I was booked for surgery up 'til about ten minutes before I had to go in. It's scary to think they just don't do all of the available tests up here because they don't feel like it.
Really it's just the medical care in the north is terribly bad. Sudbury is the number one city in Canada for doing hysterectomies... not because more women need them but because the DR's just don't want to do the tests needed to see if you actually need one or not... so any problems you have that can be solved by removing the uterus... that's what'd done. There are people who have simple things like systs (sists?... I totally can't spell) who are told that they'll die if they don't have their uterus removed... WTF is that!????
Oh and cesareans... Doctors up here schedule them all of the time, regardless of if the patient wants a natural birth....why? Because they don't want to be called in on the weekends or on hours they have off to deliver the baby. I always thought that if you decided to be a DR who delivered babies you'd just automatically be expecting to work some pretty odd shifts some days.... but apparently not so much in the north.
I am SO glad that I don't live up here. I wouldn't want my rights as a patient to be taken away from me.
Oh more stories about this. One girl in our class told us about the two major issues her mother had had with the Doctors up here...
Firstly she'd gone in with her neck hurting every time she bent it in a certain way. You know that joke "doctor, it hurts when I do this" "don't do that" ... that was how her appointment went. It turned out that her mother had M.S.
Then some time later she'd gone in with stomach pains, she specifically asked if it could be cancer... she was told no. No tests were done. It was cancer and she passed away from it.
I just don't get how this is an okay standard of practice. I know there aren't enough doctors in the north anyways... but to have the few ones here be totally incompetent... it's just a worthless system. If I get really sick and can possibly make it south I'm not getting helped here. Oh, excepting our on campus doctor, she's AMAZING! The on campus doctors office is one thing about LU I can't find any fault with, they're fantastic.
Other than that.... not going into the healthcare system here. I'd hate to think of what they'd do to me if I went in with my stress stomach aches which present exactly like appendicitus... the only reason I didn't get operated on in TO the first time I went in was because they did a TON of tests to be sure of what was wrong before they operated. And still I was booked for surgery up 'til about ten minutes before I had to go in. It's scary to think they just don't do all of the available tests up here because they don't feel like it.
