The main problem as I’ve personally experienced it is the specialists not offering to send patients outside of their (the specialist’s, not the patient’s) comfort zone. Tell your specialist that you want to go somewhere outside of the city.
I’m from outside of Winnipeg. My Winnipeg specialist was about to write up a requisition for an MRI for me at her usual place. I had to ask to have her send the req to somewhere more familiar.
But I did say that’s the main problem. The other side of it is influential doctors preventing rural facilities from purchasing the most cost-effective modern equipment, because “you can’t have a hospital outside the city with a better CT scanner than we have at {x} urban hospital.”
The main problem as I’ve personally experienced it is the specialists not offering to send patients outside of their (the specialist’s, not the patient’s) comfort zone. Tell your specialist that you want to go somewhere outside of the city.
I’m from outside of Winnipeg. My Winnipeg specialist was about to write up a requisition for an MRI for me at her usual place. I had to ask to have her send the req to somewhere more familiar.
But I did say that’s the main problem. The other side of it is influential doctors preventing rural facilities from purchasing the most cost-effective modern equipment, because “you can’t have a hospital outside the city with a better CT scanner than we have at {x} urban hospital.”