- Joined
- Sep 24, 2019
Man, that was a n unnecessarily shitty UC experience.
My province of Ontario in Leafland relies more and more on urgent care to bridge the gap between primary care and emerg using the same criteria: too much to take care of at home but not the life or death or really, really sick reasons to go to emergency.
Something else our province is doing which I like and would like better if some pharmacy chains weren’t screwing over their pharmacists.
Years ago, our pharmacists were authorized to give flu, then CoVD shots after a quick course on stabbing people with sharp needles. That took some of the load off our primary physicians.
Now pharmacists can diagnose and prescribe for about 30 things including UTIs, ear infections and other simple stuff. That’s taking a big load off an even more stretched medical system.
Had an ear infection in the fall. My local pharmacist, when I z told him, entered a code into my phone which brought up a questionnaire. The right answers on that generated a quick exam and an Rx. The whole thing took 45 minutes and 10 of those were spent waiting for him to be free.
I have no primary practitioner and the urgent care clinic I use opens at 0700 but is booked solid for the day by 0710. I would have been a good 10+ hours waiting in ER.
Our system is badly broken and not getting better. CoVD caused a lot of early retirements among doctors and nurse practitioners and we haven’t been able to replace them. The private providers we have left are buried in paperwork, on top of huge patient loads.
My province of Ontario in Leafland relies more and more on urgent care to bridge the gap between primary care and emerg using the same criteria: too much to take care of at home but not the life or death or really, really sick reasons to go to emergency.
Something else our province is doing which I like and would like better if some pharmacy chains weren’t screwing over their pharmacists.
Years ago, our pharmacists were authorized to give flu, then CoVD shots after a quick course on stabbing people with sharp needles. That took some of the load off our primary physicians.
Now pharmacists can diagnose and prescribe for about 30 things including UTIs, ear infections and other simple stuff. That’s taking a big load off an even more stretched medical system.
Had an ear infection in the fall. My local pharmacist, when I z told him, entered a code into my phone which brought up a questionnaire. The right answers on that generated a quick exam and an Rx. The whole thing took 45 minutes and 10 of those were spent waiting for him to be free.
I have no primary practitioner and the urgent care clinic I use opens at 0700 but is booked solid for the day by 0710. I would have been a good 10+ hours waiting in ER.
Our system is badly broken and not getting better. CoVD caused a lot of early retirements among doctors and nurse practitioners and we haven’t been able to replace them. The private providers we have left are buried in paperwork, on top of huge patient loads.
) and they all had talents like gymnastics and I was the only one who couldn't do anything BC I was fat"
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