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glad it worked for you. but you had an emergency and govt. care gets you in quickly for that. suppose you had a need for something tha wasnt. you would still be waiting. lots of b.c. people come down to our great doctors in montana to pay for their own care here as they can get it.

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There are some other cases where an apparent non-emergency might be an emergency. My father last year had a small growth in his face. Being appearance-conscious and quite concerned, he got it checked out immediately. It turned out to be cancer. The next week he had it biopsied, and by that point the cancer had spread to cover a roughly 3"x2" portion of his face. The doctor told him that had it been another week or two, it would have spread to his lymph nodes, and he'd be dying right now. During that instance, I was pretty happy that we lived in the country with the fastest medical response time in the world.