Listening to the experience of many immigrants, coupled with my own personal experience, and finally came to the conclusion that: Canada is not an emergency. You're in a hurry and he's not in a hurry. However, if you look at it from a different perspective, it is possible for an emergency patient to cross over to the family doctor without having to make an appointment in advance and go directly to the hospital for a checkup, which has already reflected? Emergencies are seen first. , is considered to be prioritized.
In China, when you go to the emergency room, you bring your medical handbook, register first, and then go to the doctor. The doctor will diagnose the general condition based on his experience, and then recommend relevant tests (e.g. CT, ultrasound, etc.). China has more people and more people get intestinal and respiratory diseases, especially in summer, there are more chances of multiple clusters, so the doctors are experienced because there are more chances to practice. As the above post said disease, if it is happening in China, the doctor asked a few questions will immediately make the judgment of enteritis, and then let the patient to the laboratory, prescribe drugs, hanging bottles immediately hang on, anti-inflammatory pain, and solve the problem.
Medical equipment in China's big cities can reach the international advanced level. The doctor will recommend the patient to do all kinds of tests in order to get more income for the hospital and more commission for himself. A little bit of a small disease to hang drip flow, so although the effect is fast, but over time, the role of the autoimmune system is lost. At the end of last year, someone just counted, said a certain city (I forget which city) the average person to play 8 bottles of drip per year.
Canadian doctors, on the other hand, are very careful with antibiotics and promote the role of the autoimmune system. A friend of mine once had a fever that wouldn't go away for a few days, but insisted on not taking any antipyretics, drinking only hot water, and assisting with other physical cooling methods as requested by the doctor, and after a week, really fought it off on her own. If you can agree with this, the emergency room in Canada is not urgent, maybe there will be a little bit of agreement (not completely agree, because the emergency system in Canada, and not only the emergency room, the whole health care system has to improve the problem).
When you go to the emergency room in Canada, you tend to see the nurse first, not the doctor. The nurse will first go through the basics of your situation, first name, last name, home address, phone number, and any allergies. Then the routine examination (temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, etc.), and then a variety of specialized tests (blood, urine and stool tests, etc.), the kind of CT, ultrasound, etc. I do not know what time to line up, have not experienced. The patient has to go through five or six tests at the nurse's place before he can see the doctor. The doctor is the one who interprets the results of the tests after they come out. I guess you can only see the doctor directly if you are unconscious (and then you can't because you are already unconscious). If it's just pain, then you'll have to put up with it for a while. It is indeed painful for patients with acute episodes of appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy. I wonder if they will line up labs for such very urgent patients ahead of other patients who are not urgent? Or will they wait in line strictly on a first-come-first-served basis?
Canadian ERs only deal with the symptoms at the time and find out the problem through instrumentation. Like me and the situation written in the post above, after finding out the cause of the disease, only give to take some medicine, or even do not take the medicine, let you go to the pharmacy to buy your own. At this point, if you still follow the Chinese habitual thinking, waiting for a bottle to stop the pain, it is impossible. So of course you are disappointed, what is the point of seeing this emergency room.
If there is a problem with the results of the emergency room tests, they will send the labs to the family doctor, who will do further diagnosis based on the patient's past medical history. Canadian doctors lack clinical diagnostic experience compared to Chinese doctors, or they simply don't advocate relying on experience to diagnose emergencies, and rely on scientific instruments to make judgments. Therefore, it is our experience that if you can diagnose an emergency by yourself (e.g., if you have leftover food), don't go to the emergency room. Keep some common medicines at home for emergencies. Or when you don't feel well, go to the hospital early, don't put it off until you can't stand it anymore and then go to the emergency room. Maybe you can buy yourself some time and suffer less. Because if you have pain, you are sick, and it doesn't cost you anything to go to the emergency room.