🧵 on “patient-centred care” post-hospitalization medical care for complex conditions in BC @Josie_Osborne #BCMinistryofHealth
Getting outa St. Paul’s soon.
Will be on many complex drugs for the rest of my life. It reminds me of all the drugs my PWA friends take.
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BC Min of Health want me to self-inject tricky Methotrexate using an extremely complicated contraption that is difficult to open,
navigate, use w one eye, no nursing training. Lost count at step 7.
Nurse says, “can you get a friend to come every Tuesday to do it for you?”
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Jul 28, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I get a letter from the BC Cancer Agency. Time for a mammogram. Call the mammogram clinic at 750 W Bdway. After I ask for an appointment, they ask, "do you have any lumps you are concerned about?" Yes, I say, then they make me call another line which refuses 1/
To make the appointment unless I have a doctor or clinic I go to. I hang up and call the main line again. She is saying the same thing, either you have a doctor or you have to sign up for TELUS Health. I say, "TELUS won't serve me unless I pay them $6,000." I don't have 2/
Apr 24, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Coal Harbour Medical Clinic now.
Vancouver
British Columbia
#bcpoli
Few wearing any kind of mask, people outdoors on the sidewalk doing rapid tests - *lots* of coughing.
Appointments at this clinic not accessible for immunocompromised.
Few wearing any kind of mask, people outdoors on the sidewalk doing rapid tests - *lots* of coughing.