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Posted on: 05-10-06 12:38:36
RajCanada,
The doctors that i am talking to you about include whites too. By whites i mean Canadian born and educated people. But the majority includes africans, Chinese, East Europeans. These are the kind of guys you find mostly in walk in's. But I have found that my office mates have very high regard to Desi doctors. Even at St. Joeseph's hospital emergency , a Desi doctor made the right diagnosis but he could not be with us for all the 4 days that a family member was in the hospital. He was there on one day and did the right thing while for the other 3 days , other doctors came and messed up with the diagnosis.
However, My experience at sick kids has been mixed. The first time, some whites really messed the diagnosis. The second time, the infant was treated by a jew and he made the right diagnosis.
I beg to differ with you regarding money can get you get doctors in India (if that is what you meant). I have known many doctors who charge Rs. 20 to Rs. 50 and make the right diagnosis (it was Rs. 5-Rs. 10 , Ten years ago). In India, you get to know the "Kairasi" Doctors by word of mouth and this will help you get to the right doctor's. DOctors in Apollo's / Famous hospitals often make wrong diagnosis or stretch the treatment to suck money from you (a very common complaint these days)
OTOH, Medical system in Canada is almost at the point of saturation that you canot get appointments to good doctors.
Also i donot know if you have heard this, but recently in 680 news, there was a report saying that in 2007 or so , Ontario will have to spend 1/2 its budget on healthcare and may be around 2020 or so , healthcare will take the province to bankruptcy. So IMO, I would not even think of spending my senior life in Canada.
just my personal views
TK A
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TK, in Delhi 3 years ago, most family doctors were charging around Rs 80-100 for consultation. Specialists were charging close to Rs 300 per visit. I do not know current rates. Add cost of medication to that and depending on severity cost of lab tests, x-rays, CT/MRI. Even simple illnesses run into couple of thousand rupees. This may or may not be much depending on what you earn in India (assuming one is living in India). Also depends if your employer reimburses you for medical expenses and what percentage.
I have seen families in India where medical complications requiring interventional procedures, etc., have taken away almost their whole life savings.
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
However, My experience at sick kids has been mixed. The first time, some whites really messed the diagnosis. The second time, the infant was treated by a jew and he made the right diagnosis.
It should be pretty obvious to you(since you somehow see the need to bring race into almost any post) that Whites are bad doctors and Jews are good ones. If there is any other relevance/conclussion we are to make as to why you bring race into the picture, do let us know. Maybe there is a scientific reason why Medical Practice and Race is intrinsically linked.
Greyg and any other noobie...use your discretion while taking advice from a forum...free advice is sometimes worth its cost.
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Jake3d, I would appreciate if you can provide some good advice rather than Criticising.
Let new comers get the real information and possible solutions available.
I have seen so many good people over here, who are trying to offer their help.
So please try to keep on helping if you can.
It is very valuable, and would help our desi to overcome their problems have success in their life.
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
Also you can try out this in Canada (We had tried it out for genuine reasons). Go to 4 or 5 doctors in your neighbourhood and all the four or five will give you different diagnosis. We had to pull our hair to conclude which diagnosis out of the 7 or 8 doc's that we visited was true.
A very good example of wastage of resources. Is it because of free health care system or it is your second nature.
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