exactly

It sounds to me like she ended up having a bad experience but I don't think necessarily that means that the system is bad, more that she didn't present a "classic" case.

I too had an experience where I had strange symptoms (seemingly harmless back pain) and went to the ER (hoping to get some tylenol 3's really). In my case I'd just had a baby so the ER doc decided to send me for a CT scan just to be sure (I had many blood clots in my lungs). That ER doc very possibly saved my life.

Since I had just been through severe preeclampsia (and again, very possibly kept alive myself by various doctors) at the time and my daughter was being kept alive on a daily basis in the NICU, I must say that I was very, very happy to be in Canada's healthcare system: in the US we would have lost everything that we had financially.

Shrill