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Generally yes they will only call you if there is something wrong. Family docs / NPs have too many patients and tests to call everyone with normal results in most cases. A few things are weird about your case though.
While I'm sure stuff like this happens often, ideally it isn't supposed to. You should call your NP and schedule a follow up yourself.
When I had a family doctor he was making sure to tell the results over a follow-up appointment, good or bad, I really liked his empathy. I wish this was the standard..
I'd say that's the case in my experience anyways. No news is good news.
This is what every doctor I've seen (in multiple provinces) has done for decades.
They used to tell me they'd only call if there were issues, but most don't say anything anymore because it's common practice.
Yup, Canadian healthcare is a disaster, only second to the US system.
Facts put Canada as 5th best in the world, behind Sweden, Denmark and some of those neighbors.
5th. I know! Bizarre! I had occasion to look it up when my swedish friends were complaining about their healthcare (3rd best globally).
We're not second only to America, but there's a massive difference. We're not awesome and we need to get better, but our system could be so, so much worse. We lost a lot of doctors during COVID, and I don't blame them because we couldn't do the bare minimum as a society, but it's going to be a long while before staffing levels are back up.
You say that like politicians are doing anything to bring staffing levels back up.
That has definitely been the case for any STI testing I've had
Sounds pretty Canadian to me. We have private healthcare in everything but name. I'm on the hook for a $2500 dental bill for my kid right now. It's medically necessary. My insurance won't cover it. We can't pay it.
Meanwhile, the NDP are jacking themselves off over how they, "got dental and pharmacare for everyone^1^!!!
^1^ Does not apply if you have a job or a home. Until after the next election, when the program will be cancelled.
Your disappointment over dental surgery costs not being covered has made you really hate on the least-worse hope we have for costs like those being covered in the future and painted an untrue picture of healthcare in Canada.
Are you Albertan, or just shitting on things that could help you out of sheer anger and a desire to self-harm?
Are you Albertan
Yes. I live in Hell, thank you for asking. Knocking on doors for the NDP is a nightmare here, but I do it, because it's the least bad possible outcome.
or just shitting on things that could help you out of sheer anger and a desire to self-harm?
No. I'm being realistic. Why assume I'm angry about the government in bad faith? I have real material grievances: The current dental program doesn't help us pay for one cent of my kid's surgery. We're going to need to resort to payday loans and pawning stuff to pay for it. That's real anger about real stuff.
The Liberals will never follow through on rolling dental and pharmacare out without multiple layers of means testing. The NDP are going to force an early election they have no serious platform for, and will royally bungle their campaign. As is tradition.
Once the Conservatives are back in power in a year or two, the program will be cancelled. As is also tradition.
While I completely empathise with your frustration, I still don't understand why this leads you to attack the people doing the most to address the problem, rather than the people doing nothing, or actively making it worse. That's just self-destructive behaviour, and worse, it hurts everyone else at the same time.
very liberal comment here
Are you Albertan, or just shitting on things that could help you out of sheer anger and a desire to self-harm?
Are you a prick? or just shitting on people that you generalize?
Yes, looks like a standard practice in QC too. You can pass all kind of tests and... hear nothing...