UNIVERSAL AND ACCESSIBLE MY ASS!
I am fed up with the health care system! If I am having this much trouble getting to see a doctor I can only imagine what homeless people/immigrants go through! This is impossible and I am about ready to give up!
Here's my situation. With a four month wait-time to see my family doctor I decided I would follow up with my gynaecologist. They wouldn't book me an appointment (even for follow up to my previous visit) without a new referral from my family doctor). When explained about the wait time they told me to go to a walk in clinic. Fed up with that non-sense I decided to take matters into my own hands and go see a Naturopathic Doctor and hopefully get tested/assessed for anemia and a gluten intolerance. $300 later I have a very thorough health assessment, no actual "test" done, some chinese herbs and a recommendation to get blood work done at a walk-in clinic (CBC and ferritin levels). So I went to the walk-in clinic today and they wouldn't take me because I have a PEI health care. "We can't risk it" is what their reason was.
What's a girl to do!?
posted by paulette at
6:46 AM
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Tue May 11, 01:24:00 PM
It's time to get an Ontario Health Insurance Plan card since you live and work here. Then at least they will do your blood work. http://www.ontarioimmigration.ca/en/after/OI_AFTER_HEALTH.html . Getting OHIP might take a while, so while you are waiting for that to go through (assuming you haven't handled this yet) you can go back to the original suggestion of a walk-in clinic for a blood work referral, and maybe that will be taken more seriously than a recommendation from a Naturopathic Doctor's. I don't recommend going to the Emergency Room unless absolutely necessary. I waited for six hours in the middle of the night because I couldn't get to a walk-in clinic and needed to be dealt with before travelling.
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