A tear-filled plea from a woman who believes her cancer was missed for years because she didn’t have a family doctor is proof of a system “in crisis,” a Nova Scotia doctor says. The province says it’s working on it.
Inez Rudderham said in a video now viewed more than 2.6 million times online that her stage 3 rectal cancer went undiagnosed for two years, despite having made three visits to emergency rooms.“I dare you to take a meeting with me and explain to me and look into my eyes and tell me that there is no health care crisis in my province of Nova Scotia,” Rudderman says in the video. “I dare you.”
“Hopefully it will mobilize the public to put more pressure on the department of health to make decisions and acknowledge that there is a crisis,” he said. “If these problems are not dealt with, it will only get worse.” Canadians were the fourth most likely to say they don’t have a regular doctor , behind Sweden , the United States and the United Kingdom . France topped the list with only 0.6 per cent saying they don’t have a family doctor.
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