Posted by: Endurimil
And if I wasn’t a veteran I wouldn’t have been able to access mental illness help after getting hit. Well, unless was able to spend $200 every two weeks for it.
Oh, those supports a year ago where cut by the management at NDHQ by the way.
Oh….wait did hey tell you how resilient you are?🤬
I just recently got to endure one hell of a ride in Both systems, as well as the US Healthcare system. And lemme say, Medical Care in the CAF isnt much better these days brother.
Our MO's and Nursing O's are leaving for the greenbacks once their obligatory contract is done. The rest are getting rode into the dirt, burning out, and taking a mental health 3B release just to survive.
Of the 4 Health Care establishments Ive dealt with since I decided to break my leg on a ride on 19 Dec, overall the American hospital was the best.
In the door, in a room, xrayed, splinted, taught the art of crutch and discharged in 1h45m. However that comes with downsides, had I not had my Blue Cross, I would have been on the hook for 11k USD. If you dont have health insurance in the US of A, you're doomed.
And while here back home we have public funding vs insurance based access. The 11.5hrs I spent sitting in tremendous pain at the ER in Ajax ON after being turned away by their own fracture clinic, with a ortho referral in hand no less, to be treated like a developmentally delayed child by a haughty doc from the UK tells me, we are unwell. Result of that visit? 2x T4's and a Doc who completely missed the blood clots that formed in my calf/thigh after the break that ended up almost dropping me.
And you'd think on return to Petawawa that the Green Machine would take care of its own? Nope. Just a B Surg who says he will handle the referral to the local fracture clinic on 21 Dec... then just doesnt and peaces out on the christmas leave block. Thankfully that was caught by a Nursing O friend who was curious why I wasnt casted, nor on thinners for the obvious clots and she got the wheels turning which finally got me a cast and blood thinners on... 11 Jan!
All in all, Healthcare across the nation needs a massive bolus of funding and reinvigoration. But that comes with a cost and I dont think the body politic of the Canadian public is ready to swallow that bill...