How quickly can you arrange for my medical care? - By: Mike Sjokvist

We hear this question all the time from our clients who contact us to help them avoid surgical waitlists. For surgeries in Canadian public hospitals, many of our clients report waiting lists as long as 2 years!
A comparison of two different client referrals might be instructive:

Client 1:
Contacted us on a Thursday morning. He was on a seemingly endless waiting list in Alberta to get in to see a cardiologist. In the meantime, he was experiencing frequent chest pains and shortness of breath.
We arranged for a consultation with a cardiologist the next day in Oklahoma. Over the last 8 years, we have referred hundreds of Canadians for cardiac procedures to this same hospital.
Our client was delighted and immediately arranged tickets for an overnight flight. The next day (Friday), our client had a cardiac bypass surgery, which undoubtedly, saved his life.
Total wait time from his first telephone call to Timely Medical Alternatives – 24 hours

Client 2:
Contacted us on a Monday, seeking an MRI for his painful right knee. MRI’s in British Columbia, in the public system, cant take a year or more to set up.
In the private system, in which Timely Medical operates, we are able to schedule an MRI within hours (not years). But in order to schedule any medical imaging, including CT scans, PET scans (for cancer), ultrasounds, or CT angiograms, a requisition from a physician is required. 2 weeks later, he got in to see his family doctor, who filled out an MRI requisition form. Our client instructed the office to fax the form to Timely Medical Alternatives.

Completely ignoring his request, it was faxed to an intermediary organization “which we use to handle these things”. This information was given to our client after he had waited 4 days, in vain, for a call from the MRI facility.
This intermediary organization, it turned out after our client contacted them, had lost the form!
So our client came to our office to get one of our requisition forms, and we filled it out together. He then got into his car and drove it back to the doctor’s office for a signature from the doctor. The doctor had left the office for the day. “Could one of the other doctors in the clinic please sign it then?” asked our client. “Not without re-examining your knee” was the reply.

So our client suggested that they put his doctor’s stamp on the form, which the people in the office reluctantly agreed to do.
Back to our office came our client with his stamped form. We faxed it to the MRI clinic ourselves. 2 hours later, our client got his MRI.All things considered, the American medical system seems to take the patient’s welfare more seriously . It is faster and more efficient.

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