For certain values of "success," of course.
Friend of mine (Canadian ex-pat) just posted this on Twitter*:
"My cousin just called. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in March, was put on the urgent list for surgery. It’s mid-August. “Oh well I just have to wait”, she says. Every day untreated means progression of disease. #CanadaWaits #socializedmedicinekills"
Then:
"It’s “a good cancer to have”, in that typically they can just cut out the affected organ. But who knows if, in the ensuing time, it’s affection other systems?"
"I am so angry that people are treated like this. Six months almost with no surgery date. In a first-world, technologically advanced country."
From another friend in response:
"I’ve had arguments online w/Canadians about how this kind of thing doesn’t happen & I’m a stupid American & don’t know what I’m talking about. A friend of a friend came to the US for hernia surgery because he was in excruciating pain & the wait was 1.5 years."
And finally, from my ex-pat pal:
"My father’s first oncologist appointment was scheduled for after he died."
But hey: Free.
(*Anonymized to protect her identity)
Friend of mine (Canadian ex-pat) just posted this on Twitter*:
"My cousin just called. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in March, was put on the urgent list for surgery. It’s mid-August. “Oh well I just have to wait”, she says. Every day untreated means progression of disease. #CanadaWaits #socializedmedicinekills"
Then:
"It’s “a good cancer to have”, in that typically they can just cut out the affected organ. But who knows if, in the ensuing time, it’s affection other systems?"
"I am so angry that people are treated like this. Six months almost with no surgery date. In a first-world, technologically advanced country."
From another friend in response:
"I’ve had arguments online w/Canadians about how this kind of thing doesn’t happen & I’m a stupid American & don’t know what I’m talking about. A friend of a friend came to the US for hernia surgery because he was in excruciating pain & the wait was 1.5 years."
And finally, from my ex-pat pal:
"My father’s first oncologist appointment was scheduled for after he died."
But hey: Free.
(*Anonymized to protect her identity)
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