The complaint compartment.

[Paystar]

That's the opposite picture I get from other people I've read who live in Canada. The health care is free and fantastic.

Maybe in the big cities like Toronto and Hamilton. But not small town northern Onatrio. My daughter spent time at Sick Kids in Toronto when she was born and they were great. And my mom was in a cancer hospital in Hamilton. They were the ones that found the cancer after our local family doctor and hospitals kept telling her to go to a chiropractor, it's just a bad back. Well turns out it was pancreatic cancer.

And around here, if you do get hurt and have to go to hospital, be prepared to sit there dying for 8 hours minimum.

 

[Paystar]

Probably malpractice lawsuits … wait, is that allowed in Canada?

No, the hospitals got their buts covered so good you can't do anything against them.
My family has tried, with lawyers.
They killed both my grandparents. Had big signs over the beds..."do not let patients get up on their own", they keep beeping the pager because they had to go to bathroom. Nurses never got up from desk because they were too busy telling stories of their weekends at the cottage, so both my grandparents (in different years) got up on their own, fell and hit their heads.

And I've seen it with my own eyes. I've been in for surgeries in the past and watched staff and surgeons ignore patients while they talked about their boating weekend. I have no use for any of them. Yet they cry and cry for raises.

 

[number two]

Is that Socialism in action?
And we vote for it here?
Amazing!

 

[ultrarunner]

Careful what you wish because you might get it!

With many things it’s easy to embrace the positives and totally overlook the negatives… often only realizing when too late.

The ranks of the sole practitioner or small one location medical group are fading…

Few women Docs embrace running a practice and actually seek managed care positions where they can schedule vacations and someone else deals with all the regulatory and compliance issues…

Many requirements are the same for a small practice as for a large multi location group…

 

[BubbaSam]

Gone are the days where a Man's WORD is his bond. I'm only 55, but I am very old school. When I say I will do something, I do it. To the BEST of my ability, 100% and then some.

I'm a retired Army dude, 36 years in boots. I attack life with a vengeance and do what is right, always, even when no one is watching. Just how I was raised.

We just built our "retirement" house, bought a nice slice of land, and over the past year of putting this all together, dealing with Contractors has been the bane of my existence. NO ONE wants to work these days it seems.

Missed deadlines, over charging, shoddy work, having to do things two or three times... makes me want to go into business for myself. I would show up when I say I will be there, quote a fair price, have the person hiring me for the work, set the standard for me, and I would meet or EXCEED that standard in a timely manner. In todays market, that model would not fail.

If I were a Project Manager for a General Contractor, I would hold crews to the timeline. Inspectable items would be INSPECTED, and things would be done right the first time.

I hired a landscaper to do the final landscaping around our house. Sod, irrigation, Front Gate, trees, etc. All I get from this guy is excuses after excuses. He blows timelines all the time, and something always comes up. He started off very good, great work, showed up when he said he would, but then, just fell off. I noticed he "sub'd" out, and I just think he's over his head. The issue is... there is NO ONE else that can finish what he started. Rock and hard place... I'm between it!

I'm still working as a Defense Contractor, and if I did my job half assed the way I've seen work done for me, people's lives would be at stake.

I just don't get it.

Ok, now that that's off my chest... LOL

Have a fantastic Friday everyone... back to our scheduled shenanigans.

First of all I want to thank you, Darth_Dmack, for your message. I too am ex-military, not as long as your time in grade, but I ALSO was raised with the same principals.

My word is my bond, my handshake is still very meaningful. It's SO unfortunate that the world has gone where it has gone. I'm not saying everyone else has fallen off the wagon but yet I will say that there are so fewer with those principals than there should be.

THANK YOU AGAIN!

 

[BubbaSam]

Is that Socialism in action?
And we vote for it here?
Amazing!

Oh boy... don't get me started. All I can picture is the front sheep goes over the cliff and the rest follows. What are these people thinking? It's a sad state of affairs!

 

[WinterDeere]

Probably starting to drift toward the politics that will get this thread shut down, if we keep going on the socialized healthcare thing.

So, has anyone actually dug through the Imane Khalif gender controversy, to a level where they can explain the situation in words we can all understand? There's been so much speaking between the lines, and with limited time and only a passing interest, I haven't bothered to try to figure it out, myself.

 

[chim]

OK, to back away from political stuff, in no particular order:

* Bad drivers - there ARE drivers who think they can drive just fine while on their cell phone. They can't. Also those who feel it's OK to scoot by two stopped lanes of traffic on the shoulder. Death wish bikers like the one we had fly by splitting lanes like we were stopped. We were doing 60-65 MPH at the time. Evel must have been going 80 or more when he screamed by. OK. Confession. There was a time when I was the idiot on the bike or in the fast car.

* Using tired old nonsense terms like "price point", "at the end of the day", etc. My grammar, punctuation and spelling isn't perfect but...............

* And the above reminds me of another. Unbridled usage of quotation marks. Way back when I was young, our teacher stressed that the quotation marks are used to call attention to set apart words that were written or spoken somewhere else. A secondary use was to represent word(s) written in sarcasm or understatement. For example if someone wrote about a tractor being "slightly used", I'd expect it to see a tractor with the snot beat out of it. If someone posted "I'm sharpening my 'mower blades' today", I'd picture some sort of homebrew metal thing that replaced the original blades.

 

[chim]

So, has anyone actually dug through the Imane Khalif gender controversy, to a level where they can explain the situation in words we can all understand? There's been so much speaking between the lines, and with limited time and only a passing interest, I haven't bothered to try to figure it out, myself.


Hermaphrodite?

 

[WinterDeere]

Hermaphrodite?

That's what I've been assuming. I knew one once, 30 years ago. Identified as a guy, but was petite and feminine, it was a real struggle for him growing up.