My daughter heard your call: she did not come to the emergency room, because her condition was not critical, even if it required immediate attention and care given the risk of this wound becoming infected purulent which appeared overnight in the middle of his back.
Not having a family doctor, she went to the medical clinic near her home. Without any apparent consideration for her distress and beginning to panic, she was informed that no doctor could see her and that there were no nurses or assistants on the scene.
She was therefore directed to the private clinic located one floor below, where the welcome was immediately warm and compassionate. First aid was given to him immediately by a nurse technician and surgery was planned for the next morning.
From now on, in Quebec, to have the right to rapid treatment and care provided with humanism, you have to pay, and no insurance reimburses this type of intervention.
We read obituaries which praise the quality of reception in palliative care units, but which deplore the lack of access to basic care and its poor quality (The dutyJanuary 24, 2024).
Due to a lack of resources in the public sector, the Info-Santé line directs citizens to private clinics, a scandalous and possibly illegal practice (The PressJanuary 18).
The College of Physicians is concerned about the proliferation of private clinics owned by non-doctors who see it as a business opportunity (The duty1er FEBRUARY). The decline of the public network favors private medicine.
Will the creation of the new health agency bring back a minimum of efficiency in the public system, at the level of the first line of services? There is room for doubt.
Aren’t there minimum standards of reception and care in public clinics? If not why ? If so, why are they not respected? For the same budget, how is it that the private sector is incomparably more efficient than the public sector?