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StevieGee6 months ago
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Due to the profitability (and the coinciding over prescribing) of MRI scans in the US, we have an abundance of the machines and technicians available. It's very possible that the waits here wouldn't be as much of a problem here as in Canada.
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chevydog6 months ago
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You sort of touched on a question that i've been looking to get answered. Someone in an earlier discussion said that one of the reasons Canadian health care costs were so low was that there wasn't any need to employ people to reject you based on some criteria. So does anyone reject anyone? Obviously patients can say no to treatment. But does a doctor (e.g.) ever say in effect "Doing this particular stuff for you would be a waste of money and/or effort. So we won't"? If so, what criteria do they use?
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As I'm sure you know, private insurance companies in the US do this from time to time, for whatever reason. Sometimes a procedure is "too experimental"; sometimes (and this tends to incense people) it's merely for reasons of internal profitability. I know I was told once that if I were younger surgery would be OK - this was a strained MCL; but at my age they would do physical therapy instead. And I've had an MRI pushed on me whose need I wasn't sure of; and I've rejected surgery because I wasn't sure the doctor who wanted me to have it really got the whole story.
Health care of any type isn't endless. So at some point a "no" has to be the answer to some things. If it's not for proitability or some other "crass" reason, it'll be a doctor (perhaps against my wishes) or even a bureaucrat.-
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greenmac6 months ago
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I have never known of anyone that has been denied treatment. The only rejection would be if the patients body would not accept any further efforts to save it.In the case of terminal cancer... a person may try to live their last days at home with the assistance of care givers and drugs, or they may go to the palliative care unit of the hospital
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