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Originally Posted by marlin5353
No offence taken Lillyth and if my post was disrespectful to you Walter than I truly do apologize as it was not my intent. I do not judge but was only trying to use my experiences with our health care system to help.
Being in Canada it is tough to see one specialist never mind about getting a second opinion. My point being that this is a spine forum and our system will be able to help you with your spine. It took me over a year from the date of my MRI to see a neurosurgeon. Once I saw him he said that there was a few issues with my spine that requires further investigation and ordered a new MRI for the one I had was from over 1 year ago. It took me 7 days to get a response from 2 Doctors from Europe who do ADR's.
My intend on my first post Walter was to reassure you that our system is slow but you CAN get help here, it unfortunately takes a lot of time.
Mark
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In no way did I think you were being disrespectful. Your intent was clear to me. Normally, you would be right. But having found doctors that get it, I decided it was better to just get my unfortunate method of pain management out of the way first. That way I know before we waste everyone's time. In fact, one might even inquire over the phone of the support staff before even MAKING an appointment.
I don't know the Canadian system at all, but I do know that universally doctors tend to judge people like Walter and I. We tend to get accused of being "drug seekers". In the words of my favorite US doc: "Next time a doctor says that to you, I want you take your car, drive it over his foot, and leave it there. Then tell him to take two aspirin or ibuprofen. Wait and see how long it takes him to exhibit car removal seeking behaviors." LMAO!
