I know when I post, I'm generally long winded... lol..
If I wrote a post about experience I have had with Canadian doctors (the good and bad), the board would have to pay for more bandwidth...
I'll try to sumerize..
Our medical system (In alberta at least) is set up for bad doctors to get loaded rich.. They get paid per patient. A bad doctor will try to get through say 10 patients an hour.. In and out as fast as possible.. A good doctor might only get to 2-3 patients an hour. They really take the time to figure shit out for you.
Bad doctor might make 1000$ an hour, good doctor would make 200$ for the same hour.
The system is set up to promote bad doctors.
I believe in the end, the system actually causes more tax dollars because repeated visitis trying to solve the same issue but doctor won't tkae the time.
Fuck me, if this was wild west days, I'd knock about 5 local doctors out cold the next time I see them in town for the misery I suffered due to their negilgence.
My wife also had a shitty ordeal with a doctor this year. The doctor is otherwise very good, but she decided to manage a illness for my wife that she had no business doing so. I got more help from Bagua on here and my own reading.
I have had to see a couple top specialist doctor at university hosiptial in the past years.
One was sort of good... But he missed lots of stuff.. But he was caring and tried to do what he could, but I feel he truly didn't have the right background knowledge for me. He did the right thing and reffered me to another speciliast at the university hospital though. I respect him for that, many doc's won't refer you to specialist. Even though I thought he was caring, you could tell I had a time limit for my time to see him.
Another specialist at the university hospital I saw is a absolute horrible doctor who truly should have caught my conditions, but refused to listen to me when I told him my symtpoms. He'd say "oh no.. that symptom isn't related" over and over.. But in the end, it all was... I actually TOLD him what I thought was wrong with me and he dismissed it saying it would have shown up in my blood work. When I saw first saw him, I handed him a list of all the vitamins and supps I was taking.. And I pointed out to him that the reason it never showed in my blood work was because I was taking a massive amount of that vitamin when I did the blood work.. He wouldn't even acknoledge this.. I begged for a test for what I trhought was wrong.. I told him the 3 acceptable tests for my condition (and sent research papers to him to show him).. He picked a different test, and I sent him articles explaining my condition will not show up with the test he was getting me to do.. He refused and said he consulted another specialist and this was the acceptable test.. It was NOT at all how my condition was tested for lol... Of course the test came back negative.. I explained to him again why it wouldn't show up on the test.. I begged him for one of the 3 tests that are done for my condition.. never heard back from the asshole again..
1 year later, my condition was confirmed with a local doctor.
I fucking suffered for 6 or 7 years because the Canadian medical system.. When I say I suffered, I suffered.. my wife and kids suffered just as much because they had to live with me... Before it got figured out, I occasionally accepted that I just wasn't going to last on earth for another 5-10 years because it just got worse and worse.. scary worse.
Fuck... I started to look into reporting that one specialist to the medical board.. I saved all our email correspondence for proof... He'd never talk to me on the phone because I could only take a call 12:00 noon- 12:25 on any buisness day.. That was his lunch, so he would always call when I couldn't take a call and leave a message.. I'd call back at my lunch and his receptionist just told me over and over thats his lunch break sorry.
Anyways, I seem to have a great doctor right now.. I ask for any test, and he signs the paper.. we chat about my diet.. We chat about my weight lifting.. he's truly happy to see me each time.. I think he appriciates when he asks me to change any aspect of my diet or exercise routine, I do exactly what he says and it shows up in my next round of blood work.. He's also good in terms of not going by the outlined ranges for blood work.. For example, it doesn't matter if my thyroid blood work comes back within range, if I say I have symptoms of low thyroid still, he ups the dose until I feel great.
I did have another decent GP, but he was a young guy and he got me as far as he could, but he admitted I was beyond his abilities and expertise and recommended me another doctor.
It's funny, my current doctor that I love is known and a giagantic dick head asshole in our community... lol... I never have to wait to book an appointment with him, because the vast majority of ppl in town refuse to see him.. if you go to ratemyMD, he has absoutely awful ratings and tons of them lol.. Very very very smart doctor though.. and anytime I ask him to explain something to me, he gets his pen and paper out and does drawings, graphs etc.. what it takes for me to understand anything I ask.. Before COVID hit, when I went to see him, he'd take me out of the examination room and bring me to his private office where we'd chat and go over stuff.. Can't say enough about the guy, but I've been in the clinic when people literally storm out mad and verbally upset at him for how they were treated.. I think he's just a black and white straight shooter guy who if your over weight and its causing you issues, he'll tell you to loose weight.
I said I wouldn't go on, but I did lol