Receptionist with no medical training glues boy's eye shut during procedure

Yayyy 'for profit' healthcare!

While I'm against erosion of our public system, I don't see much that can be faulted here. They didn't staff the clinic on a holiday - no different than the publicly paid clinics we have here. I'm not sure a doctor applying the glue would have made any diff - the kid moved and it could happen to anybody. My guess is that a small scratch didn't need any glue in the first place, and the clinic might have been motivated by profit to do the procedure.

If the clinic is entirely for profit, never bills medicare, I don't have a problem with it being in existence. That said, the clinic should have to pay for the public system costs that resulted from this.

for the fucked up national health care system that was so bad your courts ruled that a "wait for health care is not access to health care".

Yayyy for pointless rhetoric!

Yayyy for pointless rhetoric!

So, you'd let the receptionist put glue on your child's eye? You wouldn't insist that a Doctor work on such an important part of their future, all in the name of profit?

Yayyy for blind partisanship! (pun intended)

for the fucked up national health care system that was so bad your courts ruled that a "wait for health care is not access to health care".



That ruling of Chaoulli v Quebec actually led to this outcome.

Yayyy for pointless rhetoric!

So, you'd let the receptionist put glue on your child's eye? You wouldn't insist that a Doctor work on such an important part of their future, all in the name of profit?

Yayyy for blind partisanship! (pun intended)

What does this have to do with 'partisanship'?

So, you'd let the receptionist put glue on your child's eye? You wouldn't insist that a Doctor work on such an important part of their future, all in the name of profit?

Yayyy for blind partisanship! (pun intended)

What does this have to do with 'partisanship'?

I believe you've expressed a distain for Socialized Healthcare in the past, preferring a for-profit model. If I'm mistaken, then I apologize.

Bingo. A Dr. would have a hard time billing a public plan for the treatment of a superficial scratch.

Apology accepted.

I don't have a problem with socialized medical care, but I think we should supplement it with private care options for those who want to use them. We already have this, it just needs to be allowed to expand further.

Apology accepted.

I don't have a problem with socialized medical care, but I think we should supplement it with private care options for those who want to use them. We already have this, it just needs to be allowed to expand further.

Most people don't realize there are already lots of private components to the healthcare system. Doctors are usually private practitioners, they just have a single insurance agency to bill for their services.

For services that aren't covered by public insurance, there are Doctors all over that will do things like boob jobs and liposuction. The problem being that most big private clinics that open tend to go bankrupt after a short time. No one uses them.

And then there are the quacks that let the secretary loose with the crazy glue.

I've had doctors screw up while working on me and another almost kill my mother due to mixing the wrong medications.

Doctors make far more mistakes than receptionists.

On the glue, it's really not a big deal. It does make for a good story in the media, however.

The difference here is that the public insurance system has rules about what is and is not billable and under what circumstances, and just like private insurance, they have complex algorithms to detect suspicious billing patterns. So if a doctor has a habit of questionable billing for things like cat scratches that probably don't require treatment at all, he's likely to get a visit from the insurance auditors. That prospect keeps the majority of doctors in line.

Meanwhile, the cash-paying patient who is going on their own outside the public system like this lady is a complete layperson so she has no idea that her kid is being over treated or that the fee for that treatment is excessive.

Doctors in both Canada and the USA mistakenly and negligently kill more people every year than criminals kill purposefully.

The fact of the matter is that as far along as medical science is, it's still a pretty big mystery and it's at best an inelegant guessing game much of the time.