I dislocated my shoulder earlier this year. I walked into the hospital at 1:15. I didn’t walk out until 8:00. I didn’t get brought to the room until 4:00.
I slipped on ice this winter, and hurt my knee. I thought it was going to get better, but it didn’t, so the next day I went to the emergency room. This is in Quebec, the province with one of the highest waiting times in Canada.
I saw the triage nurse within 5 minutes, had an x-ray 30 minutes after that, and the doctor came to see me 30 minutes after that. I total of 90 minutes after arriving, I was walking out the door with a (free) leg brace and a diagnosis that the knee was only strained.
I didn’t even have to pay for parking, because my small local hospital doesn’t charge.
Okay, this was an unusual case because the weather was pretty bad so a lot of people who would have gone to the hospital didn’t. The normal wait time would probably have been about 4 hours. I like our rural healthcare!
Anyone care to guess how much I would have owed had this been in the States somewhere?
I dislocated my shoulder earlier this year. I walked into the hospital at 1:15. I didn’t walk out until 8:00. I didn’t get brought to the room until 4:00.
I slipped on ice this winter, and hurt my knee. I thought it was going to get better, but it didn’t, so the next day I went to the emergency room. This is in Quebec, the province with one of the highest waiting times in Canada.
I saw the triage nurse within 5 minutes, had an x-ray 30 minutes after that, and the doctor came to see me 30 minutes after that. I total of 90 minutes after arriving, I was walking out the door with a (free) leg brace and a diagnosis that the knee was only strained.
I didn’t even have to pay for parking, because my small local hospital doesn’t charge.
Okay, this was an unusual case because the weather was pretty bad so a lot of people who would have gone to the hospital didn’t. The normal wait time would probably have been about 4 hours. I like our rural healthcare!
Anyone care to guess how much I would have owed had this been in the States somewhere?
No idea but my out of pocket for my visit was 2.7k. And that’s after my insurance.