PRIVATE MEDICINE in TORONTO growing fast although "Private medicine" is officially not allowed by the "Socialist" Canada Health Act .
300 Executives of LOBLAW Grocery chain, owned by Billionaire Galen Weston OC, have private treatment at the CLEVEL:AND CLINIC TORONTO,(30,000 sq.ft. at Brookfield Place). Cost:$3,500 each. Includes 5hr Annual examination compared with a 30 min OHIP exam. Also not all tests paid by OHIP.
Public company MEDISYS also provides Canada-wide PRIVATE MEDICINE.
Some GPs use "WELLNESS INSTITUTE" to avoid legal restrictions on Private ptractice
"Socialist" OHIP medicine does not allow TIME for proper diagnosis. Multiple Toronto Teaching hospital specialists failed to diagnose a woman with Primary Aldosterone tumour for seven years even though a CAT scan showed an adrenal "incidentaloma". She was labelled "Chronic fatigue syndrome",even though she had the classic medical student text-book symptoms & signs of increasing BP + FATIGUE + NOCTURNAL POLYURIA + low K.. Because of OHIP economies could not be admitted to HOSPITAL for supine aldosterone/renin ratios.
