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by zulux 23 days ago
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Let's see what the Canadian Medical Association survey says.

https://www.cma.ca/our-focus/public-and-private-health-care/...

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This was commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association and it is certain that the CMA is cherry picking which results to show on their site. The surveyed doctors are only members of the CMA.

Also this survey dates back to 2023, post pandemic, a time when wait times were longer than usual.

Ok, "most". I think it's a hard sell to go to people that have socialized health care and be like "what if instead of a slightly longer wait, instead you had a system where bureaucrats at insurance providers pull rank over doctors on the treatments you're allowed to receive, and your ability to get healthcare is tied to your employment, and if you get sick you're going to go bankrupt"

Also, the wait time in OUR system sucks too. Try to find a psychiatrist that isn't booked like 3 months in advance. (AI isn't helping with the number of people that need psychiatric services..)

Look, it's a limited resource, and it boils down to: do you want doctors or accounts on your death panels.

How isn't AI helping? I don't know what the balance is, but it's there at 2am when you're in crisis in a way that your therapist isn't.

The doom trolling mixed with social media hysteria is creating a huge mental health crisis (not to mention the AI psychosis going on). I was talking to my psychiatrist the other day and she's freaked out. Social media IMO was a huge cause of our current mental health crises, and now AI hysteria is just throwing gasoline on the fire.