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#101,581
PillO said:
I need to rant a little today... Please feel free to skip over this.

I have been in a fair bit of pain today. Probably because of the unstable weather - cold and damp always make things bad.

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My knee hurts. I injured it a number of times back when I was in the army; the result of running with a 40lb pack. When you are 25, you are immortal and your body will last for ever. That's OK, I have been dealing with that pain for a couple of decades.

Last winter (in fact 53 weeks ago this past saturday) I injured my shoulder skiing (yeah I know, existing bad knee and I manage to do a shoulder...) For those that are curious, I have a torn labrum (the joint capsule that holds the shoulder together). I had a surgical consult in May. As is required for protection from lawsuits, most conservative treatment was tried first. As expected, it failed. I opined to the sports medicine doc that I should have a Burkhart repair; he responded that the repair would be like sewing hamburger and that more likely I am headed to a replacement. Here we are 6 months later and I still don't have surgery scheduled. Here in Ontario, there is an 18 month wait-list for shoulder surgery. My surgeon is one of the top in the province, he has an 18 month wait for a consult and a further 18 month wait for surgery - yes, 3 years to get surgery. My shoulder has been really painful the last week.

And finally, the thumb of my fretting hand hurts. I may have injured it in the skiing accident and not noticed for a while because of the shoulder pain. But it could also be a separate injury/pathology. Currently, everyone is stumped by this one because the pain is not local to any of the usual suspects. An MRI was requisitioned at the beginning of December; I don't have an appointment for that yet. Until we see pictures, we won't know what it is nor what the repair is. It has been really painful since September.

Socialized medicine sucks. It takes what feels like forever to get a diagnosis and another eternity to get treatment. And that is with my connections in the healthcare establishment getting me faster access. Canada - one of three countries in which it is illegal to buy healthcare.
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That will make for a most sucky day. Sorry you have to wait so long. There are definitely advantages as well as disadvantages to each of our systems. Gell well soonish.
 
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#101,582
GBassNorth said:
These are the stations I grew up on...
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Just remembered, there was KSJO and KFOG and very occasionally KFRC
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this was mine..
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#101,596
PillO said:
I need to rant a little today... Please feel free to skip over this.

I have been in a fair bit of pain today. Probably because of the unstable weather - cold and damp always make things bad.

[rant]
My knee hurts. I injured it a number of times back when I was in the army; the result of running with a 40lb pack. When you are 25, you are immortal and your body will last for ever. That's OK, I have been dealing with that pain for a couple of decades.

Last winter (in fact 53 weeks ago this past saturday) I injured my shoulder skiing (yeah I know, existing bad knee and I manage to do a shoulder...) For those that are curious, I have a torn labrum (the joint capsule that holds the shoulder together). I had a surgical consult in May. As is required for protection from lawsuits, most conservative treatment was tried first. As expected, it failed. I opined to the sports medicine doc that I should have a Burkhart repair; he responded that the repair would be like sewing hamburger and that more likely I am headed to a replacement. Here we are 6 months later and I still don't have surgery scheduled. Here in Ontario, there is an 18 month wait-list for shoulder surgery. My surgeon is one of the top in the province, he has an 18 month wait for a consult and a further 18 month wait for surgery - yes, 3 years to get surgery. My shoulder has been really painful the last week.

And finally, the thumb of my fretting hand hurts. I may have injured it in the skiing accident and not noticed for a while because of the shoulder pain. But it could also be a separate injury/pathology. Currently, everyone is stumped by this one because the pain is not local to any of the usual suspects. An MRI was requisitioned at the beginning of December; I don't have an appointment for that yet. Until we see pictures, we won't know what it is nor what the repair is. It has been really painful since September.

Socialized medicine sucks. It takes what feels like forever to get a diagnosis and another eternity to get treatment. And that is with my connections in the healthcare establishment getting me faster access. Canada - one of three countries in which it is illegal to buy healthcare.
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Sorry to hear of your injuries and insults to injuries. While staying away from the political, I only wish folks understood the consequences of single-payer. It's a system and like all systems whether private or socialized, it has its good and its bad.

While I was on vacation in the Hawaiian Islands over Xmas I met a retired Canadian doctor who was on vacation with his wife who was a retired nurse. We discussed the Canadian system to an extent and he addressed the wait times that have become synonymous with socialized medicine.

He told me that those in the Canadian system could choose to pay a high co-payment to be put near the front of the line for procedures/surgeries and that the system uses the payment to offset the costs of the single payer system. Have you looked into this option? Is it something that you could swing?
 
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#101,597
Larry V said:
Sorry to hear of your injuries and insults to injuries. While staying away from the political, I only wish folks understood the consequences of single-payer. It's a system and like all systems whether private or socialized, it has its good and its bad.

While I was on vacation in the Hawaiian Islands over Xmas I met a retired Canadian doctor who was on vacation with his wife who was a retired nurse. We discussed the Canadian system to an extent and he addressed the wait times that have become synonymous with socialized medicine.

He told me that those in the Canadian system could choose to pay a high co-payment to be put near the front of the line for procedures/surgeries and that the system uses the payment to offset the costs of the single payer system. Have you looked into this option? Is it something that you could swing?
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Careful though, this may apply to socialized medicine in commonwealth countries (UK included). In France the waits are minimal in comparison. So much so, folks joke about it..
 
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#101,598
Chucky Stiletti said:
Careful though, this may apply to socialized medicine in commonwealth countries (UK included). In France the waits are minimal in comparison. So much so, folks joke about it..
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Having zero experience in any single-payer system and other than speaking to anecdotal evidence relayed to me, I have nothing to be careful about. ;)
 
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