Fat in the Fire

Can FatLady Find Her Way to Health and Fitness?

RateMDs.com Stirring up Controversary in Canada?

Published in December 3rd, 2007

Posted by FatLady in Canadian Health Care, Ontario Health Care

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“People may be a little bit less happy about customer service issues with Canadian health care,”

Researching the Pros & Cons of Hysterectomy in the Treatment of Endometrial Hyperplasia

Published in November 17th, 2007

Posted by FatLady in Canadian Health Care, Complex Atypical Hyperplasia, Diagnostics, Doctors/Physicians, OHIP, Ontario Health Care, Ontario Women's Health Council, TAHBSO, endometrial hyperplasia, hysterectomy, women's health

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When faced with a difficult decision, I sometimes make the old Pro & Con lists. Not original, but hey, it works. But to do so, I really needed to know a whole lot more about hysterectomies in general and TAHBSO in particular. Nothing like some good, old-fashioned research.
The internet is a sometime confusing [...]

Canadian Health Care in the News: Critically ill older women receive less life support

Published in November 15th, 2007

Posted by FatLady in Canadian Health Care, Ontario Health Care, gender bias, women's health

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A little something more to look forward to….

Margaret Munro

CanWest News Service

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Older women with heart failure and other critical conditions receive less life support and die more than men in intensive care units, according to a disturbing new Canadian study.
This difference was most pronounced among women over age 50, who were 32% [...]

Canadian Health Care in the News: OHIP Lets Family Down

Published in November 13th, 2007

Posted by FatLady in Canadian Health Care, Diagnostics, Doctors/Physicians, Health Care Policies, OHIP, Ontario Health Care

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From the Toronto Sun, via Canoe.ca
I have refrained from commenting on news items I’ve posted just because I’m just trying to understand all of this, and maybe because I haven’t entirely decided for myself if my particular ailment gives me “permission” to mouth off about the system as a whole–even though I’ve already mouthed off [...]

Government malpractice to blame

Published in November 12th, 2007

Posted by FatLady in Canadian Health Care, Doctors/Physicians, Health Care Policies, OHIP, Ontario Health Care, politics

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Op/Ed piece from this morning’s Winnepeg Sun
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

If you’re one of the five million Canadians without a family doctor, you may we wondering how such a thing could happen.
How, in a prosperous country like Canada, could we be short thousands of physicians?
Health Canada pegs the doctor shortage at 5,800 by 2010. But [...]

Whereupon She checks into the Hospital for a D & C Slash Endometrial Biopsy

Published in November 11th, 2007

Posted by FatLady in Canadian Health Care, D & C, Diagnostics, Doctors/Physicians, OHIP, Obesity, Ontario Health Care, menopause

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…continued from here
The D & C slash endometrial biopsy went about as well as I could have expected. It’s an outpatient procedure requiring general anesthesia so my husband had to take a day off work so he could be with me and drive me home afterward .
I don’t think the procedure took very long; [...]

Canadian Health Care in the News

Published in November 9th, 2007

Posted by FatLady in Canadian Health Care, Doctors/Physicians, OHIP, Ontario Health Care

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From the website of 580 CFRA Radio:
Canada Has Worst Rating for Health Care: Study
Josh Pringle
Thursday, November 1, 2007
A new study suggests Canadians are most likely to head to an emergency room as an alternative to a visit to a doctor’s office or clinic.
The Commonwealth Fund says Canada has the worst rating in [...]