Comments on: Princess Margaret, I have to complain https://www.ihavecancer.ca/princess-margaret-complain/#utm_source=Source&utm_medium=Medium&utm_campaign=Campaign Why is there a lump in my chest? Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Suzanne Pope https://www.ihavecancer.ca/princess-margaret-complain/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Suzanne Pope Sun, 30 May 2010 11:07:09 +0000 http://www.ihavecancer.ca/?p=955#comment-627 Whenever I engage with our health care system, even by phone, I find that I have to prepare myself psychologically. Will I have to hold for 20 minutes? Will I be spoken to rudely? Will I be cut off? And all that's BEFORE I show up for the appointment. I've trained myself to have very minimal expectations of the customer-service piece – that way, if things go smoothly, I'll have feeling of joy that lasts for hours. In the context of universal health care, your feelings are universal, too. It's just that you get to feel them a lot more often, unfortunately. Do you remember, back in the 80s, how the government decided to control health care spending? By training fewer doctors! Our experiences today are part of the fallout from that. But I expect things will improve. After all, they were able to find $1 billion for G20 security, weren't they? Okay. End of rant. Hope your appointments since then have been better. ~ Suzanne Whenever I engage with our health care system, even by phone, I find that I have to prepare myself psychologically. Will I have to hold for 20 minutes? Will I be spoken to rudely? Will I be cut off? And all that's BEFORE I show up for the appointment. I've trained myself to have very minimal expectations of the customer-service piece – that way, if things go smoothly, I'll have feeling of joy that lasts for hours. In the context of universal health care, your feelings are universal, too. It's just that you get to feel them a lot more often, unfortunately. Do you remember, back in the 80s, how the government decided to control health care spending? By training fewer doctors! Our experiences today are part of the fallout from that. But I expect things will improve. After all, they were able to find $1 billion for G20 security, weren't they?

Okay. End of rant. Hope your appointments since then have been better.

~ Suzanne

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