Getting a doctor
Having moved from Prince Edward Island where I had the same doctor for almost as long as I lived there, it was an interesting experience trying to get a "family doctor" here in Ontario.
There are clinics scattered randomly (it seems to me) around Timmins but none in my immediate (walking distance) area. So Audrey asked around at the College where they have a medical center, if there were any doctors willing to take on new patients. We got two names and I found an address for one of them and went to the office and guess what... we have our names on the list and an appointment to meet and greet the doctor. She has just become a member of a group of doctors who form a Health Care group.
Who ever guessed it would be so easy?
Last week when I needed to see a doctor for a minor bleeding problem I went to an "after-hours" clinic and got in after a very short wait. That resulted in two referrals for further examination all of which came fairly quickly compared to the year I waited in PEI for treatment after my initial diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Shortly we will meet our new doctor and hope we really don't need her services. So to put it in context, we arrived in Timmins on August 1 and out first visit to our family doctor is scheduled for November 11th.
So this is my blah blog of the day. I see that nine views were made of my most recent post. I wonder who looks at this and I hope that if you do you enjoy it enough to tell me. However that is done in the mysterious (for me) world of blogging. tout fini, gut genug. auf wieders...
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There are clinics scattered randomly (it seems to me) around Timmins but none in my immediate (walking distance) area. So Audrey asked around at the College where they have a medical center, if there were any doctors willing to take on new patients. We got two names and I found an address for one of them and went to the office and guess what... we have our names on the list and an appointment to meet and greet the doctor. She has just become a member of a group of doctors who form a Health Care group.
Who ever guessed it would be so easy?
Last week when I needed to see a doctor for a minor bleeding problem I went to an "after-hours" clinic and got in after a very short wait. That resulted in two referrals for further examination all of which came fairly quickly compared to the year I waited in PEI for treatment after my initial diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Shortly we will meet our new doctor and hope we really don't need her services. So to put it in context, we arrived in Timmins on August 1 and out first visit to our family doctor is scheduled for November 11th.
So this is my blah blog of the day. I see that nine views were made of my most recent post. I wonder who looks at this and I hope that if you do you enjoy it enough to tell me. However that is done in the mysterious (for me) world of blogging. tout fini, gut genug. auf wieders...
t
posted by Oldguy | 8:10 pm
1 Comments:
Sounds like a better, quicker process than what we have out east!
I would have read this sooner, but I didn't know you were blogging again. Glad see it and I look forward to many more.
Kate
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