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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by dominotw on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:03PM (#27801938)
what's with blanket dismissals and calling ppl names. 20% of candians are liars?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7292524/

"Long wait times have become a defining characteristic of the Canadian health care system. In 2016, the Commonwealth Fund ranked Canada last among 11 countries surveyed on wait times for specialist care.1 Roughly one-fifth of Canadians report being negatively affected by wait times, citing experiences of stress, anxiety, pain, lost income, delays in diagnosis and treatment, duplications of tests, and deterioration in their conditions."

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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by SgtBastard on Sunday July 11, 2021 @06:53PM (#27805144)
This study talked about accessing a specialist (cardiologist, obstetrician etc) not a general practitioner for a basic health check up. This borders on disingenuous.
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Re:List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K by dominotw on Sunday July 11, 2021 @07:39PM (#27805450)
> not a general practitioner for a basic health check up

I don't know what op meat by "basic check up". When i injured my knee i was referred to an ortho by my GP who then did a "basic checkup of my knee" to diagnose an mcl tear.

Also op said "basic check up" which you disingenuously changed to "basic health check up" which sounds like a generic health check.

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