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Originally Posted by BetterRed
F***, that sounds more like a war zone (been in a couple) and worse than some of the out of the way places I've lived in.
For most of the rest of world, the US healthcare 'system' beggars belief. I cannot understand how y'all put up with it. The highly regulated UK NHS system is not the only alternative as is often posited in the US. Indeed, only a few countries have anything similar. Most have a mix of universal government funding for the 'basics', and private (via insurance if you have it) funding for the 'extras'. As a casual observer I get the impression that both the US and the UK healthcare systems 'encourage' the use of Emergency Services over a regular doctor - that's crazy. Maybe its a cultural thing.
I didn't know what a 'GI Cocktail' was so I looked it up. Might interest you know the use of them is discouraged by the Aus&NZ equivalent of the FDA.
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Here in my section of Canada we're encouraged to go to the drop-in clinics for minor ailments, it's free either way so that's what we do. And we live right by a Children's hospital so emergency visits haven't been horrible and when my son severed the tendon in his index finger, the surgery was done as quickly as could be expected on a Sunday.
On the minus side my teenage daughter needs minor surgery on her big toe (nasty ingrown toenail that's not healing and keeps getting infected). She was told that they'd phone her a week before her surgery sent her home with a script for her current infection and another script for the *next* infection. As she's otherwise healthy, who knows how long she'll have to wait.