No one with spare cash needs to experience these horror stories if they go to the U.S. to get diagnosed and treated.
One can also go to a private clinic here in Canada. But I wouldn't advise that, because I had a horrible experience doing just that.
You see I had a slight fear that I had lung cancer so I marched into one of these clinics, shelled out $700 , and had a CT scan done.
They found a couple of leisons of 4 millimeters in diameter, and in the written report they advised me that it's nothing to worry about, that the danger that they could be malignant was minimal, but that it would be a good idea to check on them in one year's time ... just to be sure.
Fine, I thought.
A few months later I found out that when one of the Canadian VIP's Cat Scan revealed the same small leisons as mine, his were immediatelly checked for malignancy. I was angry.
Then, a few days later I'm watching the Larry King show and there Tammy Faye Baker tells Larry about how her eency-weency leison ... HALF THE SIZE OF MINE ... was ALSO immediately checked for malignancy (in her case it was bad news). As you can probably imagine by this time I was fuming.
I've decided that the reason they didn't ask ME to shell out another $1200 for this very important follow up test is because they had bad experinces with smart alecs in the past who went pounding on Medicare's door instead. Medicare, having to do these follow ups then gave shit to the private clinics for costing them huge amounts of money.
So from now on ... when I want a Cat Scan & a truthful evaluation as to what should be done with the results, I'll have my scans done in the U.S.. And when they say that it would be criminal not to do a pricey follow up on certain findings ... Canadian Medicare better listen!