Good luck with that dude, I’ve heard of The emergency room at the hospital closing at nights several times but now I’ve heard it’s closed today during the daytime. If anyone is in an emergency situatuation phone 911 for a ride to terrace ,where I’ve heard they’ve turned people away.
The answer? Northern health will hire more management.
lol
Try what they do here: the Emergency isn’t closed! It’s on diversion! Wait for an ambulance to take you to Vanderhoof or Prince George and we can brag there were no ‘closures’…
Our new hospital is just about done, they’re hiring construction clean up crews now. All we need is staff. Heard of nurses brought here to check out the town and all the incentives included. They stay a day and say “Ewwww! No thanks.”
So last time I needed to get my prescription refilled my doctor was away in Namibia on vacation. That’s where he’s from and has been my doctor for almost 12 years. We’re friends I do lots of computer stuff for him and his wife, he even wanted to buy my little Kei truck for his farm, but I got a better offer.
So I saw another doctor at the Clinic who refilled my prescription and renewed my blood tests.
6 mos are up, went for the blood test and called to make an appt to renew the scrip as I knew waits were long and I only had a month’s meds on hand.
They told me my Doctor was on Vacation and wouldn’t be back for a month. I replied “What do you mean? His wife was just visiting me an hour ago!”
The doctor that did my last scrip is now my doctor.
THE COMPUTER SAYS SO.
So I went to the clinic to straighten things out. Not a chance, THE COMPUTER SAYS SO
Got so mad I asked ‘The computer TALKS to you?’ and got the usual brain dead bureaucrat reply one expects from a public employee, the computer SEZ they didn’t fuck up, they can’t fix it, they know of no one who can, it isn’t my job, nothing can be done, people don’t “fix” things, that’s the way it IS…
So they scheduled me an appointment 4 weeks later cuz the COMPUTER’S DOCTOR is the one who’s away on vacation all May.
Even though they know I’ve been seeing the same doctor over a decade, they know he exists as they got the two doctors vacations mixed up, they knew I was running low on meds and my normal doctor was in the clinic at that very time they booked me a month later with the one THE COMPUTER SEZ.
I had a convo with my pharmacist about my doctor leaving he told me as long as my doctor is still practicing in Canada he can renew my prescription, for one year as long as i ask my doctor before she leaves to prescribe a one year prescription instead of the usual 3 months for the same pills I have been taking for a decade
My doctor is leaving next month. He gave me a battery of tests to get an updated view of my health. I’m doing well. He also gave me a year of meds. I’ll miss him. He’s an excellent doctor.
As soon as I get my six month renewal from the Doctor I’m going to the receptionist to TRY to book a renewal appt before it runs out.
I’m now officially without a doctor as are many people in Rupert. My doctor is a class act. I’m grateful that he gave me a year of medication refills. Before he left he gave me a green light with my health: complete physical work up, CT scan, and ultrasound.
I wish him all the best in his new practice. His patients are lucky.
The receptionist laughed when I went there. Just resign yourself to it, the same crap is everywhere.
In every service industry
In every City
In every Province
I completely understand that the same crap is everywhere. It’s maddening.
This compels me to do the only thing I can do to help myself. I vote for and support politicians who support my interests.
I won’t vote for candidates who want to Americanize Canadian medicine. Medicine in our country is awful enough without letting the far right morons get in power. Pay per view medicine is a stupid idea.
Vote for who supports your best interest? What an interesting concept.
Like the ones that put tolls on all the bridges, cut medical funding, charged monthly medical premiums? Or the ones who historically supported King over Parliament and are suddenly claiming to represent workers by removing a carbon tax (and no climate plan alternative) and nothing else? Who’ll make sure no damn immigrants come make offers on your home or settle in the Big Empty?
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My voting pattern is always an exercise in futility, that is, my party will never form the Federal government(you can probably guess, haha).
I’ll tell you my story of total frustration at trying to get some short term disability forms signed off by a doctor later when I have a cooler mind.
My wife went thru that. It was the federal govt that was the problem.
-Calling to inform you her disability claim was approved
-sorry to inform you she passed away yesterday
week later in mail:
-sorry to inform you disability claim was denied
next day mail
-you must pay back the disability claim that was denied
-as the death was at beginning of month, CPP for that month was denied as well.
Suppose I should be grateful that unlike Visa, they did not try to claim interest owed between the time of death and the date the Estate paid the owed amount.