Questions are being raised about the case of a 36-year-old Ontario woman who died of liver failure after she was rejected for a life-saving liver transplant after a medical review highlighted her prior alcohol use.
I mean I get where you’re coming from, and I cannot speak to what it is like in the UK (I can only speak as a man in the US), but you should not lie to your doctor.
If you see a doctor, and they start treating you differently after finding out that you smoke weed, then you find another doctor.
Unless you’re in Canada and there’s a doctor shortage and you can’t just shop around for a different family doctor if you don’t like your current one. If you’re lucky enough to even have a doctor here…
So I’m assuming you’re in Canada and don’t have experience with US healthcare… But we have the same issues here. Unless you’re extremely wealthy, you are very limited as to what doctor you can or can’t see based on your insurance plan which is almost always based on your employment.
There are wait times and you cannot “shop around” for a GP in the way you’re implying.
This is generally pretty bad advice.
I mean I get where you’re coming from, and I cannot speak to what it is like in the UK (I can only speak as a man in the US), but you should not lie to your doctor.
If you see a doctor, and they start treating you differently after finding out that you smoke weed, then you find another doctor.
Unless you’re in Canada and there’s a doctor shortage and you can’t just shop around for a different family doctor if you don’t like your current one. If you’re lucky enough to even have a doctor here…
So I’m assuming you’re in Canada and don’t have experience with US healthcare… But we have the same issues here. Unless you’re extremely wealthy, you are very limited as to what doctor you can or can’t see based on your insurance plan which is almost always based on your employment.
There are wait times and you cannot “shop around” for a GP in the way you’re implying.