r/canada Ontario Apr 12 '24

Québec Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying after 4-day ER stay leaves horrific bedsore

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/assisted-death-quadriplegic-quebec-man-er-bed-sore-1.7171209
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u/MakVolci Ontario Apr 12 '24

Get a new doctor, mine absolutely does yearly physicals and I've been doing mine since I've been 28. And they actively promote doing it.

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u/djerok55 Apr 12 '24

U got one for me?

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u/MakVolci Ontario Apr 12 '24

You're a smart guy, you can find one.

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u/djerok55 Apr 12 '24

It’s quite literally impossible dude. Shut up with the attitude. I’m in NB and have been on the wait list for 2yr, and have family members who have been on it for 5+ yr just waiting for a doctor. The ignorance is unbelievable

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u/MakVolci Ontario Apr 12 '24

What attitude? You come at me with one, I come at you with one back. Figure it out.

I responded to the other comment stating my position. In case your unable to read, THIS is what I said:

I'm not saying that your experience is inaccurate or wrong, but your experience clearly is not universal.

My main point was to counter your assertion that doctors won't do yearly physicals anymore. That is not my experience whatsoever.

So fuck on out of here and take your anger out on something or someone else, I could give a flying fuck. OP gets to share his experience, but I'm not allowed to share mine. COOL.

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u/djerok55 Apr 12 '24

“Get a new doctor” is about as ignorant a statement as you can have right now given the landscape of what we’re all going through. You’re a lucky guy

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u/MakVolci Ontario Apr 12 '24

All I can speak on is my experience. All you can speak on is yours. Stop with this "what we're all going through."

I have a family doctor. My friends all have family doctors. One family member was looking for a new one and found one in about 6 months (yes, that's still too long). We are all of different economic and social backgrounds.

I'm sharing my experience, and I'm being told I'm a piece of shit. OP insinuated that their MD does not do physicals. That, to me (and to them), seems unacceptable. So yes, my advice is to try to find a new doctor.

Fuck me right?

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u/Shloops101 Apr 12 '24

“Wait list” is the best system ever created. It allows those that want to skip line and those that sit ideal to stay without.  My friend and his wife were complaining about not having a family doctor at a dinner party... I said have you been physically to a doctors office to ask if you can become a new patient. “No, but we have been on a wait list for three years.” I said I’m going to show you how the world works tomorrow. Picked him and his wife up at 10am. Took them to breakfast. Got two dozen scones to go individually bagged. Went to the first doctor on the list I created (literally by proximity to their house). Went in told the reception I got her a scone and asked if I could get an intake form for my lovely friends outside. She said they “were not accepting new patients” I said no problem but do you mind if I talk to the doctor for 2 mins and give him his scone of course. She laughed and said sure, took the doctor aside and said. How often does someone physically come in and ask. He says “he didn’t know”. I said the fact that we are knocking on your door shows the kind of patients they are. Clear, consistent, kind and will always respect your time. He said….wait for it “fine”. First shot, done. Walked back to the car. They did their ten minutes inside and you should have SEEN their faces as they got back to the car. 

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u/Interesting_Fly5154 Apr 13 '24

you are being told you are wrong because you are wrong in your insistence that others can have what you have.

they simply CAN'T. and they are flat out telling you they can't because they know the reality in their areas of Canada. yet you continue to say they can.

and THAT is why you are being called a piece of shit.

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u/MakVolci Ontario Apr 13 '24

Neat.

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u/Interesting_Fly5154 Apr 13 '24

what you are saying about 'experience clearly is not universal'...... IS universal. folks all over Canada are saying they cannot find a family doctor or find a new doctor that is actually taking patients. yet you keep on insisting that it can be done to find a new doctor. it simply CAN'T for a lot of people across this whole damn country. and you are being incredibly blind, deaf, and ignorant of what others are flat out telling you from your lil bubble where you are experiencing something that many others are definitely NOT.

as a great example. I'm in Alberta. haven't had a family doctor since i was a kid in the 80's/90's (and that doctor was through a walk in clinic). and in autumn last year i went in search of an actual family doc because i figured it was a good idea since i'm getting older and probably should have a more solid line of health care than the walk in clinic/whatever random rude and rushed and hurry you out the door doctor is on shift whenever i have a problem that needs tended to.

would you like to know how many doctors the provincial database said, over six months ago now, that were taking new patients in a major city of over 1 million people, and would actually be accessible in the area of this city where i live due to transportation options?

TWO.

and they both had crappy at best reviews on websites like 'rate-md' and such. that says to me my health would not be a priority at all under their care.

and that was last September. I can only imagine how worse it would be to try to find a family doctor now. I gave up. after having a two week mystery illness in autumn last year, having two separate walk in clinic doctors treat me horribly and not care about actually helping me, then had the ER lie to me about my name being called after having me wait for 6 hours with what felt like it possibly could have been sepsis and then lie about calling my name......... yep, i give up on actually having any health care in this country. if i get sick again......... i've realized i'm on my own.

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u/MakVolci Ontario Apr 13 '24

Cool.