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Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by sudosysgen »

refurb wrote: post #109
sudosysgen wrote: post #107

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That is untrue. There are almost a dozen within 30 minutes of where I live.

Please provide links. Doctors are not able to work in both the public and private systems, they have to choose. There are a few clinics that provide care entirely outside the public system but since the demand is low they are rare beyond MRI clinics in a few provinces. But please, send me links to the dozen of private clinics (dont work in the public system) that are 30 mins of where you live.

I'm not going to doxx myself.

Demand used to be low, it is increasing steadily due to mismanagement.

If you don't trust me, type "private clinic toronto" into Google Maps.

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by mattkrause »

hungryforcodes wrote: post #60
hluska wrote: post #49

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I’m Canadian and am extremely happy with the state of healthcare. It has nothing to do with propaganda but personal experience. Please don’t claim to speak for me. Your view does not match the typical Canadian’s.

I'm Canadian and since living abroad I can only say how impressed I am with health care systems OTHER than Canada's. Getting a specialist appointment in Canada can take weeks to months and even then the specialist barely has time for you. I have friends from Europe who (now) have dual citizenship and fly back to their country of origin for anything beyond a basic checkup. In Asia I go to the hospital and I get all th…

If you're still in Quebec, have you tried the Carnet Santé website? https://carnetsante.gouv.qc.ca/portail

It should have most of your testing, albeit with a 30-day delay that is supposed to let someone discuss potentially-scary test results with you.

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by refurb »

sudosysgen wrote: post #111
refurb wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please provide links. Doctors are not able to work in both the public and private systems, they have to choose. There are a few clinics that provide care entirely outside the public system but since the demand is low they are rare beyond MRI clinics in a few provinces. But please, send me links to the dozen of private clinics (dont work in the public system) that are 30 mins of where you live.

I'm not going to doxx myself. Demand used to be low, it is increasing steadily due to mismanagement. If you don't trust me, type "private clinic toronto" into Google Maps.

I see clinics doing sports medicine, endoscopies and sexual health. Lots of comments about “super expensive”.

No hospitals or major research centers that would actually be anywhere near the issues happening in NS.

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by revolvingocelot »

lostlogin wrote: post #88
christophilus wrote: post #46

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That sounds to me like no true Scotsmanship.

The 'But communism polluted us too" comments here are a touch too defensive, and I don't get the point.

It's a thought-terminating cliché that has the useful side effect of getting everyone to talk about the sociopolitics of authoritarism or the Cuban Missile Crisis or anything other than the fact that modern industrial society doesn't have to be as polluting as it is.

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by anonuser123456 »

julz_hk wrote: post #40

I'm surprised that Chronic Wasting Disease (a prion disease similar to CJD or BSE but found in wild and farmed deer, moose etc) isn't mentioned. A quick search however brings up this article linking prion disease, sewage sludge pollution and these cases. https://www.cp24.com/news/ask-questions-but-don-t-panic-abou...

CWD is everywhere in the US. We’d be seeing this everywhere if it were CWD related.

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by sh4un »

rdtennent wrote: post #16
sh4un wrote: post #9

Canadian healthcare is scary, and it's made worse by these politicians that always go to the US for care. The joke is that it's gotten so progressive that no one gets better, we all have to equally suffer. You can see clearly how this situation was mishandled.

Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. The issue in this case is not the quality of care but the possibility that the provincial government is suppressing testing that might reveal that a naturally-produced neurotoxin has contaminated bottom-feeding crustaceans such as lobster.

No Canadians are not satisfied. It's the biggest complaint of everyone outside of the top few large cities.

The government is clueless, but also the healthcare isn't very good beyond common issues.

It's not like in the US where you have multibillion dollar facilities dedicated to a disease.

Unfortunately the same doctor treating you for cancer is the same doctor putting stitches in some kids finger at the local hospital and not a specialized medical team at the Johns Hopkins Center.

Everything here is treated with Amoxicillin, Tylenol, and if they trust you enough with the hard drugs, maybe some diclofenac.

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by sudosysgen »

refurb wrote: post #113
sudosysgen wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to doxx myself. Demand used to be low, it is increasing steadily due to mismanagement. If you don't trust me, type "private clinic toronto" into Google Maps.

I see clinics doing sports medicine, endoscopies and sexual health. Lots of comments about “super expensive”. No hospitals or major research centers that would actually be anywhere near the issues happening in NS.

I never said hospitals. I said clinics. Research is not something the private sector wants to do in this domain, because it's not profitable.

If all you saw was endoscopies and sports health, you weren't looking. There are tons of generalist clinics.

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by fer »

southerntofu wrote: post #18
sh4un wrote: post #9

Canadian healthcare is scary, and it's made worse by these politicians that always go to the US for care. The joke is that it's gotten so progressive that no one gets better, we all have to equally suffer. You can see clearly how this situation was mishandled.

> The joke is that it's gotten so progressive that no one gets better I don't think that's the reason. Public health systems in Canada/France/Belgium have (had?) a very good reputation because they were in fact really good until the neoliberal turn on the 80s/90s. When you have health workers running the show with a fair budget, wait times are low and results are good, and everyone is happy. Now introduce some manage…

Honest question: what social security hole are we talking about here? What kind of fraud? The gross majority of the social charges of a large company depend on employee wages. Having worked for a few CAC40 companies, knowing the makeup of their workforce, and looking at their public financial data, the numbers seem square.

On the other hand, every day I see small businesses with significant undeclared revenue and obvious money laundering schemes going on. France makes it very easy to anonymously report all sorts of crimes, from domestic violence and child neglect to terrorism, but only a selected few can report to TRACFIN.

Personally I can't wait for France to adopt a fiscal data module like the Belgian HoReCa black-box [0], and given the overreaching arms of the French fisc I'm surprised it hasn't already.

[0] http://www.salesdatacontroller.com/belgium-prices-are-10-hig...

Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by aaron695 »

gfykvfyxgc wrote: post #4

Seems obviously BMAA but clearly the government don’t want to say so because it will destroy the lobster industry. We should all be terrified of BMAA and it’s here because of climate change. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190124110834.h... Climate change is making the oceans and fresh water toxic and very deadly. We’ve seriously fucked the earth. Have you ever heard weasel words more reminiscent of a c…

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Re: Baffling neurological illness affects growing number of young adults

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Post by refurb »

sudosysgen wrote: post #117
refurb wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see clinics doing sports medicine, endoscopies and sexual health. Lots of comments about “super expensive”. No hospitals or major research centers that would actually be anywhere near the issues happening in NS.

I never said hospitals. I said clinics. Research is not something the private sector wants to do in this domain, because it's not profitable. If all you saw was endoscopies and sports health, you weren't looking. There are tons of generalist clinics.

What kind of community clinic would see this? The "whistleblower" in this article is a member of the health authority. You expect a generalist seeing rich people for their arthritis to be diving into this?
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