• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Some fellow Canadians bash our system but usually its those that don’t get what triage is.

    Like my wife felt Ill we went to emerge, maybe waited 4-6 hours. Low blood sugar doctor recommended eating higher protein snacks in between meals.

    But when they figured out I had cancer it was fast track for everything.

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      5 days ago

      No point in explaining. If you go to the ER in America you’re waiting 12 hours, at least, unless you’re actively dying.

      Oh and it will cost you a nice new car.

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      5 days ago

      When the Australian Emergency department keeps me waiting for less than 15 minutes, I really start to worry.

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      5 days ago

      Yeah the reason I haven’t waited that long in the ER isn’t because I’m American. Ok actually it is, as an American I’m not going to the ER unless I’m certain I have to. Head trauma, blood loss, issues breathing, anaphalaxis… I think a bone might be broken? I can go to the urgent care in the morning