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My GP is easily distracted. I sometimes have to interrupt him and say something like, Enough about you, doc. Let's talk about me. And then he checks his computer screen and pulls up a file belonging someone with the same last name but no relation. It's a good thing one of us is on the ball some days.
Yes perhaps I've generalized too much about the reasons. I do think there's more then just what I suggested going on. Now that I think about it since I've moved from the city to a more rural area I have seen more of difference in the hurriedness of the doctors. My old doctor did have more time it seemed and she worked in a cooperative. However here there is a big doctor shortage. It took me months to actually get on with GP as the waiting list had over 100 people on it so there already is some limits put on his practice. The guy is great and genuinely seems to care but it's pretty obvious that he's run off of his feet. I really don't think that the amount of people that go through his office daily it's just about getting more money into his pocket.
Government rulings make it hard for professionals and medical practitioners from other countries to come here and work. In Ontario, Bob Rae was going to bring in initiatives to speed them through.
Has anything been done? The clerk at my corner store used to be a physician at NASA.
double post, sorry
hey, where'd sagan and specter and snert and sineed and the rest of them go? - this is deteriorating intoa rational, polite discussion! (and why do all their nom de plumes start with s? Is this a plot I haven't heard about yet? I like to be up on the latest whacko conspiracy theories, y'know ..
(Seriously, nice words, ElizaQ, and others - mostly my philosophy too, keeping healthy is mostly about decent diet (mine includes barley pop) and exercise and moderation, but it's nice to know there are some tested and true medical science things out there to fall back on when bad stuff happens. But you still gotta think for yourself and be skeptical when they start spouting new miracle drugs, or politics gets into it - remember thalidomide is my motto...
Flagged as offensive.
I have a life.
Good question siamdave
Schmoozing on the top floor of NWO towers.
Siamdave stop ridiculing and attacking other babblers.
What the hell, may as well close for length while I'm here.