Re: Who's Really 'Sicko'
From: Bernard Cristalli (bcrist@club-internet.fr)
Sun Jul 1 00:39:58 2007
Touché !
Henry Gregor a écrit :
> Too shay....or, you know...the way the French would spell it.....:-)
>
> Hank
>
> */"Meenan, Anna" <annam@uic.edu>/* wrote:
>
> Gee, I hope you're not insinuating that FP's give substandard OB
> care. After all, the FP DID pick up the growth lag and make the
> proper referral, and an SROM with cord prolapse at 39 weeks is
> something no OB or FP (or midwife, for that matter) could prevent.
>
> Anna Meenan, MD, FAAFP
>
>> I am expecting a grandbaby in 3-4 weeks in the Canadian health
>> care system. My son's girlfriend was not seen by OB until her FP
>> recognized a growth lag - measuring 27 cm at 32 weeks. Only
>> then was she seen by OB. When I was having babies in the
>> Canadian system, I was seen by my FP until 28 weeks, at which
>> point I saw an OB once "in case I needed one". I did not see an
>> OB again, until my cord prolapse, following SROM at 39 weeks.
>>
>> My dad, also in the Canadian system, waited 2 weeks for a bed to
>> be officially "diagnosed" for an incidental finding picked up on
>> an U/S for something totally unrelated - he died 10 weeks later.
>> My son, who has a torn ACL, was told he would have to wait 9
>> months to get seen at an ortho clinic and perhaps another 9-12
>> months to get it fixed and he lives in London, Ontario, where Mr.
>> Moore extolled the virtues of the system. I could go on and on,
>> but you get the picture.
>>
>> Michael Moore is off base on this one - socialized medicine is
>> not a panacea, but perhaps John or Frances can comment further ....
>>
>> Susan Paterson CNM
>> WI
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