If it is a routine visit, one week. If you are sick a prescription is done via phone, you will find your needed medications already in the pharmacy or it will be coming in 3 days max. Your health records, allergies and needs are already in the doctor’s database and your prescription will account for that.
Practices done in public infrastructure is free, and most presciption medications are too,
But we do have a very serious wait time problem with specialist visits. In the worst cases it can take more than a year if you need special visitations. There just aren’t enough medics specialized to fill those positions, and who is available prefers less stressful and overworked positions.
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If it is a routine visit, one week. If you are sick a prescription is done via phone, you will find your needed medications already in the pharmacy or it will be coming in 3 days max. Your health records, allergies and needs are already in the doctor’s database and your prescription will account for that.
Practices done in public infrastructure is free, and most presciption medications are too,
But we do have a very serious wait time problem with specialist visits. In the worst cases it can take more than a year if you need special visitations. There just aren’t enough medics specialized to fill those positions, and who is available prefers less stressful and overworked positions.