He's got a fever of 103.
George does, that is. Yesterday I got to experience two milestones--baby's first visit to a walk-in clinic and baby's first visit to an emergency room. Not a bad run considering he's five months old. My favourite part was when I called the nurse's hotline and described his symptoms (39.6 degree temp--that's 103.3 for you yanks, pulling on his ears, coughing, grunting, sleepy) and the nurse told me to take him to a doctor right away. Then, when I get to the clinic, Dr. Superior acts like I'm some overprotective loon wasting his time and sends me packing with an Advil sample and the kind words "there's nothing I can do to treat a fever that you can't do at home."
Two hours later, George's fever is even higher so we take the better-safe-than-sorry approach and stroll on over to the emergency room (luckily, we now live half a block from a hospital). The doctor there was much nicer and explained that George's immunity is down due to teething and he has contracted a flu bug of some sort. He said not to think twice about bringing him back if I feel I should or if his condition changes. Oh, and he actually examined him, which was a nice change of pace from the first doctor. I hate walk-in clinics. I also hate having a miserable baby dealing with teething and the flu at the same time.
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Ah yes, walk-in clinics: All the detached uncaring goofiness plus expense of private medicine, yet mostly covered on the public dime.
Mme Metro went to one once, desperate to find a female quack. Said female quack never once looked at her while she took down a history that would have indicated depression to the raw-est med school grad.
Then she--still without looking--wrote her a prescription and handed it to her without looking.
Mme looked it up when she got home: it was for weight-loss pills.
The other female doctor we found literally vanished on us--without leaving a locum and possibly with the law in pursuit.
I love the Canadian system, but to misquote every wonk the BC and federal governments ever had talking about this: It isn't going to get any better unless we start throwing money at it.
And I'll happily elect the next person with the balls to say that they'll raise taxes to do it.
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