[MutableLambda]

Canadian healthcare system is a weird one. It works great if you have something known and life-threatening, in most other cases the system is optimized to delay and defer. It's always understaffed because nurses generally don't get paid enough, and the ones that work mostly optimize on throughput, not quality.

I had a family doctor in Ontario once that moved from the US and she was in shock how many people 'slip through the cracks' without a follow up after a test. She moved back shortly after. Now I'm in British Columbia and I cannot even get a family doctor because the waiting list in Burnaby (a suburb of Vancouver) is 10 years. And again any walk-in clinic optimizes on throughput, not quality.

[kurupt213]

10 years? Sounds like Canada is moving away from a PCP model and pushing new patients to clinics.

This is by design.

[brailsafe]

10 years, damn. In Van proper and knew it was bad, but didn't know it was that bad.