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My doctor== bad.
She overbooks. She won't refill prescriptions over the phone like all my other doctors have. Both of these things are cash grabs - she can charge OHIP more that way. She also runs a cosmetic surgery clinic on the side, and has huge posters for Botox all over her office. Before sending me to the cardiologist, she had me go get a whole rack of tests. When I go to the cardiologist, he started running those same tests, until I told him I had just had those a month ago. My doc had not sent over *any* of the test results. So it was pretty much a waste of a trip. The cardiologist said he'd check the results when he got them, and talk to my doc, or call me if it is serious. His opinion is that it's just an occasional extra beat, and that I should just ignore it and try not to let the anxiety carry me into hyperventilating.
Once this is sorted with the current GP, I am going to start looking for another one. I am annoyed.
She overbooks. She won't refill prescriptions over the phone like all my other doctors have. Both of these things are cash grabs - she can charge OHIP more that way. She also runs a cosmetic surgery clinic on the side, and has huge posters for Botox all over her office. Before sending me to the cardiologist, she had me go get a whole rack of tests. When I go to the cardiologist, he started running those same tests, until I told him I had just had those a month ago. My doc had not sent over *any* of the test results. So it was pretty much a waste of a trip. The cardiologist said he'd check the results when he got them, and talk to my doc, or call me if it is serious. His opinion is that it's just an occasional extra beat, and that I should just ignore it and try not to let the anxiety carry me into hyperventilating.
Once this is sorted with the current GP, I am going to start looking for another one. I am annoyed.
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An example of when they get paid for not seeing a patient is referring them to a specialist. In this case, the specialist gets paid for seeing the patient, and the GP is paid for the referring the patient (separate from seeing the patient to decide that they need to be referred), both from OHIP. Another example is psychotherapy -- a doctor's "hour" of billing is (in reality) less, something on the order of 45 or 50 minutes spent with the patient. The remainder of that time is devoted to other work needed in the treatment, such as reviewing/making notes, etc.