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by **Sabre** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:57 pm

John Craig was on the money, the specialist have dismissed the bone factor to be the one which explains the problem and he has ordered a MR. He didn't give it much importance.

The problem with public health is that you get all the required tests, but the waiting is outrageous, she's going to be given a day for the test, and she must come back to specialist 22 May!! :angry:

May, FFS!!

It's not on to wait 3 months for a fúcking diagnostic. We're seriously considering to go to a private doctor (not free, expensive, but with reasonable waiting).

by **JC_81** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:11 pm

Sabre wrote:John Craig was on the money, the specialist have dismissed the bone factor to be the one which explains the problem and he has ordered a MR. He didn't give it much importance.

The problem with public health is that you get all the required tests, but the waiting is outrageous, she's going to be given a day for the test, and she must come back to specialist 22 May!! May, FFS!!

It's not on to wait 3 months for a fúcking diagnostic. We're seriously considering to go to a private doctor (not free, expensive, but with reasonable waiting).

Unfortunately Sabre mate, that's how long she would have to wait over here too.

There is a way the scan can be done quicker though if she's desperate. If symptoms worsen or the pain is unbearable and she presents herself to accident and emergency there is a chance they would admit her and do the scan as an inpatient rather than an outpatient. I'm not suggesting you 'play the system' to get the scan quicker (ie make out that the pain is worse than it really is or make out that she has symptoms that she doesn't - there are people who do this), but I am saying that there are ways to get the scan quicker if she needs it.

by **Sabre** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:46 pm

We might play the system. I know some people abuse of the public system and are in the free health service when they have a cough or the slighest pain. People do much of that.

We have what we call here "urgencies", and we might use it by making a bit of theatre, making it seems unbeareable.

So far, the pain is bearable, but not that it's irrelevant: The pain or the tingling didn't go despite her being without Kenpo this weeks, it has gone worse. In bed, she's not comfortable in a fixed position and has to move the leg, it doesn't help her rest. At class (she's a teacher) she has to be stand up most of the time, because if she sits down, she'll fill the tingling and the pain in the high.

It's a sad state of affaires, but as you somehow suggest, sometimes you have to make it look uglier than it is. Some people abuse of the system everyday, you have to use it once in 15 years, and they make wait you a lot. :no

Let's see what we can do, but we might well do some "theatre" and appear in the fúcking hospital urgencies.
:no

by **JoeTerp** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:51 pm

Interesting, after watching Michael Moore's movie, Sicko, I thought that Health Care in Europe was perfect. Not to say that health care in America is perfect, but we have a saying, "if you think health care is expensive now, wait till its free!"

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