Say all you want about the deficiencies of our Canadian health care system but, if you have the right family doctor, you have gold. I just wanted to add to my blogs about my latest health problems by saying that I have an absolutely wonderful family doctor who really does care about his patients.
Dr. Alipio is fairly new as my family doctor and the one who replaced my long time family doctor who was also wonderful. I've been fairly lucky to have good doctors although the ones I had earlier in life were not so wonderful.
It was the Emergency room doctors at the hospital who made the arrangements for me to see the hematologist because they were the first to see the low hemoglobin level. It bothers me that this information is not necessarily sent to my family doctor, though. Anyway, I also had bloodwork done last week especially to be sent to Dr. Alipio who had no previous knowledge about the low red blood count found at the hospital. I was away for a few days after those blood tests and came home to 5 messages on my answering machine, all from him or his assistant expressing concern about the hemoglobin count and wondering if I'd already seen the hematologist. He is definitely a hands on doctor who follows up on any inconsistencies and I appreciate that so much.
Yes, our health care system is flawed but, if you're lucky enough to have a good family doctor, it isn't so bad. I'll never receive a bill or a co-pay from any of the medical services I've used in the last couple of weeks.
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