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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 460836" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>JJJ/MWM... She's several hundred miles from <u>anywhere</u>. This is beyond "hick town" stuff... its a mining town out in the literal boonies. Not even sure there IS a cardiologist in the town, though there might be. And if I remember right, she doesn't have a family doctor - and in Canada, no way to get to a specialist without a family doctor to do the referral. The typical route in that situation is to go to the ER - but that isn't working.</p><p></p><p>It would be like a weekend trip or so, to get to a "real" hospital.</p><p>And with difficult children... <ugh> </p><p>I wish there was a simple answer, but there isn't.</p><p></p><p>Hmmm... </p><p>Does Ontario have a system where you can phone in to a 1-800 number and talk to a nurse? Its used to "triage" various problems... for example, for a parent of a sick kid to get advice on whether to take kid to ER or not. Potential heart-attack symptoms would definitely fall into that. We have that system HERE (I'm not in Ontario) - and where I am, we don't have much in some ways... so it might be worth looking into. Here, if the RN who takes your call deems you to need to go to ER, then THEY contact ER and tell them you are coming in, and that they need to run X and Y tests ahead of calling specialist VV etc. - and they tend to get listened to when a person just walking in might not be taken at face value.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 460836, member: 11791"] JJJ/MWM... She's several hundred miles from [U]anywhere[/U]. This is beyond "hick town" stuff... its a mining town out in the literal boonies. Not even sure there IS a cardiologist in the town, though there might be. And if I remember right, she doesn't have a family doctor - and in Canada, no way to get to a specialist without a family doctor to do the referral. The typical route in that situation is to go to the ER - but that isn't working. It would be like a weekend trip or so, to get to a "real" hospital. And with difficult children... <ugh> I wish there was a simple answer, but there isn't. Hmmm... Does Ontario have a system where you can phone in to a 1-800 number and talk to a nurse? Its used to "triage" various problems... for example, for a parent of a sick kid to get advice on whether to take kid to ER or not. Potential heart-attack symptoms would definitely fall into that. We have that system HERE (I'm not in Ontario) - and where I am, we don't have much in some ways... so it might be worth looking into. Here, if the RN who takes your call deems you to need to go to ER, then THEY contact ER and tell them you are coming in, and that they need to run X and Y tests ahead of calling specialist VV etc. - and they tend to get listened to when a person just walking in might not be taken at face value. [/QUOTE]
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