http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-907 Highly Obsessed: The Snowboarding & Cycling Blog Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:07:09 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-907 [...] getting a knee drained - been there, done that. [...] [...] getting a knee drained – been there, done that. [...]

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Anonymous Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:17:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-54 Health care is an emotional subject that brings out some of the worst economic thinking. In some sense we've always been in a health care crisis and we always will be in a health care crisis. The nature of health care, because it's always changing and it's getting better all the time, means that we can never completely resolve the problems that we're facing today and that we never have resolved them in the past. <a href="http://www.merchantadvisors.com/agents.asp/" rel="nofollow">Cash Advance</a>, <strong>Turn your future sales into immediate business cash!</strong> Health care is an emotional subject that brings out some of the worst economic thinking. In some sense we’ve always been in a health care crisis and we always will be in a health care crisis. The nature of health care, because it’s always changing and it’s getting better all the time, means that we can never completely resolve the problems that we’re facing today and that we never have resolved them in the past.
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]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Anonymous Mon, 07 May 2007 01:44:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-52 Hey, I had to wait *no time* for ortho rehab. That started right away. The waits were a) for an MRI (and you can check the Ont. gov't website and it'll tell you most Toronto hospitals have quite a wait) and b) for the surgery itself (I was looking at six months.. others I've met were waiting the same.. I ended up delaying mine PAST six months in order to time it properly between snowboarding seasons). --adam Hey, I had to wait *no time* for ortho rehab. That started right away. The waits were a) for an MRI (and you can check the Ont. gov’t website and it’ll tell you most Toronto hospitals have quite a wait) and b) for the surgery itself (I was looking at six months.. others I’ve met were waiting the same.. I ended up delaying mine PAST six months in order to time it properly between snowboarding seasons).
–adam

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Anonymous Fri, 04 May 2007 20:39:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-53 Hey Starbuck21, try reading the Romanow report to get an understanding of the pros and cons of government funded healthcare. Aren't medical bills the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US? To the rest of you - Grow up. Maybe someone would give a damn if you all didn't come off as pouty teenagers. Hey Starbuck21, try reading the Romanow report to get an understanding of the pros and cons of government funded healthcare. Aren’t medical bills the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US?
To the rest of you – Grow up. Maybe someone would give a damn if you all didn’t come off as pouty teenagers.

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Anonymous Fri, 04 May 2007 20:35:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-51 Wow, maybe you guys just need to improve your research skills. The College of Physicians and Surgeons can give you the name of family doctors accepting patients in your area. Also, I work in healthcare, Orthopedic Rehab actually, and I've never heard of the wait times you described. We have people coming in every week, and I've never seen anyone wait as long as you. Maybe you were unlucky? Wow, maybe you guys just need to improve your research skills. The College of Physicians and Surgeons can give you the name of family doctors accepting patients in your area. Also, I work in healthcare, Orthopedic Rehab actually, and I’ve never heard of the wait times you described. We have people coming in every week, and I’ve never seen anyone wait as long as you. Maybe you were unlucky?

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Anonymous Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:59:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-40 Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. Your best bet, I think, is to find a private MRI clinic.. though that is expensive. (I know they exist in Quebec but I don't know where else in the Maritimes.) Amazingly, apparently Ontario and Manitoba lead the way for shortest wait times. Check out this link: http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?snav=nr&id=689 Good luck, adam Wow, I’m sorry to hear that. Your best bet, I think, is to find a private MRI clinic.. though that is expensive. (I know they exist in Quebec but I don’t know where else in the Maritimes.)
Amazingly, apparently Ontario and Manitoba lead the way for shortest wait times. Check out this link:
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/shared/readmore.asp?snav=nr&id=689
Good luck,
adam

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Anonymous Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:51:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-39 So this is my story.... I went skiing in Feb and busted my knee. I couldn't walk for about 1 week. Apparently I broke my ACL and type 2 tare on my MCL my leg kept giving out to. I went to physico for 2.5 months 3x / week and was doing well. my GP sent me back to work when I still didn't think I was ready beacuse I was still in pain in the morning. so here I am working at a coffee shop 40 hours / week and my leg gives out constintly at the worst times. I am expected to stand all day. So I said I can't deal with this anymore and called my doctor. I was told in Nova Scotia to even hear back when the MRI will be takes 3 months and they usually take 6 months from that time so that is 9 MONTHS!!!!!! and my legs HURTS I am only 23 years old and I have to literally pull myself up to the 4th floor every day. One thigh is 2 inches smaller than the other one. I can't swim, I can't run, jog, walk up/down hills/stairs. and I've been told I have broken cartlege in my knee (miniskis(bad spelling)) so what to do. It is about 9-12 months for the surgery and they don't even have the MRI. It is summer time i'm going to get fat now because stupid easy shit is so friggen hard to do. I want to move!!!! where are the shortest times to wait in Canada someone help me I hate this place! So this is my story…. I went skiing in Feb and busted my knee. I couldn’t walk for about 1 week. Apparently I broke my ACL and type 2 tare on my MCL my leg kept giving out to. I went to physico for 2.5 months 3x / week and was doing well. my GP sent me back to work when I still didn’t think I was ready beacuse I was still in pain in the morning. so here I am working at a coffee shop 40 hours / week and my leg gives out constintly at the worst times. I am expected to stand all day. So I said I can’t deal with this anymore and called my doctor. I was told in Nova Scotia to even hear back when the MRI will be takes 3 months and they usually take 6 months from that time so that is 9 MONTHS!!!!!! and my legs HURTS I am only 23 years old and I have to literally pull myself up to the 4th floor every day. One thigh is 2 inches smaller than the other one. I can’t swim, I can’t run, jog, walk up/down hills/stairs. and I’ve been told I have broken cartlege in my knee (miniskis(bad spelling)) so what to do. It is about 9-12 months for the surgery and they don’t even have the MRI. It is summer time i’m going to get fat now because stupid easy shit is so friggen hard to do. I want to move!!!! where are the shortest times to wait in Canada someone help me I hate this place!

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Anonymous Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:12:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-50 any way you look at it, government controlled healthcare is going to be a pain the butt. i'm from the U.S., and am a forensic nursing/criminal psych major, and i'll tell you right now the most trouble we have with healthcare providers is when it's government regulated, like social security and medicare. while free healthcare for everyone sounds great, it never really works out the way it's supposed to, like the paramedic from germany said. my cousin's grandparents live in germany, and several years ago when Opa had some health problems, he got put on a waiting list for several months and by the time he even got in for a preliminary examination with the doctor he had gangrene in his feet and ended up losing some toes and was stuck in a wheelchair for the last few years of his life. and even in the U.S., it's worth paying for the ambulance if you need immediate care because of the healthcare professional shortage- and even though salaries are pretty good (i'm looking at a couple hundred thousand a year after grad school- thank god i can pay off my loans) the malpractice insurance is through the roof and the insurance companies are insane. some government regulation is necessary, but it shouldn't be federal- each state (or province in your case) would be better off going on individual cases and determining what regulation is needed so people don't have to wait for necessary treatment- like my 3-year old brother who had to waith six months for treatment because he had Lyme's disease, which isn't a "politically correct" disease because most general physicians (and neurologists) don't understand one hell of alot how to treat it, and insurance companies don't want to pay for something they don't understand, even though it's at epidemic proportions in my area and a six-week old baby has seizures for over half a year for "unexplained reasons." but enough with the horror stories, good luck with your knee, hopefully it was just a pinched blood vessel that ruptured and caused it to swell like that and the actual damage isn't too bad. any way you look at it, government controlled healthcare is going to be a pain the butt. i’m from the U.S., and am a forensic nursing/criminal psych major, and i’ll tell you right now the most trouble we have with healthcare providers is when it’s government regulated, like social security and medicare. while free healthcare for everyone sounds great, it never really works out the way it’s supposed to, like the paramedic from germany said. my cousin’s grandparents live in germany, and several years ago when Opa had some health problems, he got put on a waiting list for several months and by the time he even got in for a preliminary examination with the doctor he had gangrene in his feet and ended up losing some toes and was stuck in a wheelchair for the last few years of his life. and even in the U.S., it’s worth paying for the ambulance if you need immediate care because of the healthcare professional shortage- and even though salaries are pretty good (i’m looking at a couple hundred thousand a year after grad school- thank god i can pay off my loans) the malpractice insurance is through the roof and the insurance companies are insane. some government regulation is necessary, but it shouldn’t be federal- each state (or province in your case) would be better off going on individual cases and determining what regulation is needed so people don’t have to wait for necessary treatment- like my 3-year old brother who had to waith six months for treatment because he had Lyme’s disease, which isn’t a “politically correct” disease because most general physicians (and neurologists) don’t understand one hell of alot how to treat it, and insurance companies don’t want to pay for something they don’t understand, even though it’s at epidemic proportions in my area and a six-week old baby has seizures for over half a year for “unexplained reasons.” but enough with the horror stories, good luck with your knee, hopefully it was just a pinched blood vessel that ruptured and caused it to swell like that and the actual damage isn’t too bad.

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Anonymous Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:27:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-49 If that's the case with me, all above commenters are gonna get drunk with me on my tab! If that’s the case with me, all above commenters are gonna get drunk with me on my tab!

]]> http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Anonymous Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:12:00 +0000 http://www.highlyobsessed.com/2006/03/25/the-ol-knee-and-ontario-health-care/#comment-48 No, I wasn't on a waiting list. I was really surprised at how fast I got in because I had heard that waiting times were bad for MRI's. Funny thing is: my MRI showed a small tear in the carilage, but about a week later the knee started feeling better, and now it's fine! Go figure ... Good luck with the knee, JB. No, I wasn’t on a waiting list. I was really surprised at how fast I got in because I had heard that waiting times were bad for MRI’s.
Funny thing is: my MRI showed a small tear in the carilage, but about a week later the knee started feeling better, and now it’s fine! Go figure …
Good luck with the knee,
JB.

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