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“You are the first person who has ever listened to me”

14 January 2012
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We hear this comment all the time. Sadly, in our socialized healthcare system, in Canada, compassion generally takes a backseat to maintaining the bureaucratic status-quo.

We get calls from Canadians who have been suffering, often in severe, immobilizing pain, for years.  And nobody will take the time to listen to them, to hear about their condition. And so they wait, and wait, and wait.

Most Canadians simply have no idea how poorly we are served by our healthcare system, until they need access to it themselves. We are working with a woman in Ontario who has a prolapsed bowel and bladder.  She has been in pain since October of last year. She has been “promised” a surgical date “sometime in April”.  In the meantime, she is bleeding constantly.

Contrast this with another client of ours who needs arthroscopic knee surgery and is on a long waiting list. “Why cant he get his surgery in the public healthcare system, right away?” asked his wife. “Don’t they understand that he is in pain?” “Why won’t they listen to him?”.

Her husband and the woman in Ontario, are just two of the estimated 750,000 Canadians on lengthy medical waiting lists.

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About Us

Timely Medical Alternatives Inc. was founded in 2003 as Canada's first facilitator of private pay medical services and diagnostic imaging. Since then, we have expedited private medical services for thousands of clients and in the process, have saved the lives of 6 of our fellow Canadians.

Services

Timely Medical Alternatives Inc. is able to expedite virtually any surgery, diagnostic imaging, or biopsy. Many of our private medical services are available in Canada; some are available in the US, where we have a network of hospitals and private medical services clinics with which we work. There is no charge for our service.

Procedure

The role of our firm is to act as a facilitator, brining our clients together with private medical services and clinics which can provide the needed services and / or procedures in a timely manner. Once arrangements have been made to the mutual satisfaction of our client and their physician, we have no ongoing involvement in the doctor-patient relationship.

Waitlist

This distinguishing feature of Canadian public healthcare is the nearly universal waitlists for virtually all diagnostic procedures and for surgeries. We are able to facilitate private medical services and diagnostics within 2 – 3 days and surgeries as quickly as 48 hours, in urgent cases. Many of our referrals are to facilities within Canada.