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Originally Posted by TheStout
Some years back my large intestine was punctured. I almost died! I was rushed to the hospital and placed on the surgery bed IMMEDIATELY. They did not know who I was, they just knew they had to save me. The surgery was done by one of the best surgeons in Canada. I stayed in the hospital for about a week was told I was never going to walk again due to nerve damage. I walked about a week after I was released and have been about 95% ever since. I then had physio for 6 months. Guess how much I paid for everything? About $100 for the ambulance. I know you guys read and have friends that tell you this. But I live here and know MANY people with amazing hospital stories. The majority of the complaints (mostly from Americans who have heard from Canadians) I hear are wait times and it is usually from some person going to the hospital for something like a cold or sprained foot. Please tell me the American system is better, I beg you.  |
Yep it's all the people that don't have their own doctors they have to go to the ER and clog it up for everyone else. I had to have emergency surgery a month or so ago, and with all the waiting behind everyone else, I almost died. It was an ugly thing.. 18 hours in the er behind people with the sniffles, and when the surgeon removed my gallbladder finally, he said if the surgery hadn't been done within an hour or two, he was pretty sure it would have ruptured.. and considering I have a genetic bleeding disorder, there would have been very little they could have done at that point to stop the bleed. It was such a horrible experience, and I got such terrible treatment from the nurses, we will be following up with legal action. Even other patients were coming up to us saying "Wow you are in bad shape and they aren't doing squat, if you need to sue or need a witness, here's my number". It was a HORROR story.