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^^ Almost 8 months (12/12/2006-08/02/2007)
thats not bad at all. I know ppl who have been stuck for 'additional screening' for years now. professional folks, docs and all.
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since I am very straight
Yeh, that's credibly reassuring coming from someone who previously said, "I still found myself a bit emotional and teary on the day of oath". :D
No need to repeat yourself. I said it on an open thread and it proves nothing like you advocate of it. We all see what you are after however. ;)
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thats not bad at all. I know ppl who have been stuck for 'additional screening' for years now. professional folks, docs and all.
I know. I feel lucky myself. I personally know an MD (who was on Nadia Khan's show recently) who moved to UAE after waiting for his oath letter for more than 2 years after he had his interview. He has been stuck in name check since forever.
Now a days, they don't even send out interview letters until the name check is complete. That is why, they have started doing same day oaths (the day you have your interview), like the one I had.
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You guessed perfectly what we like for you :k:
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Aasif, I’ve one last question for you. What do you think about the movie Casabalanca? 
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Tell us now Roman. Are you ignorant by culture, environement or a particular teaching? Or does your sexual orientation play a role in it?
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I was born in Pakistan but I quickly went to USA. Its pretty awesome. But sometimes i always miss my cuzins that are in pakistan as well.
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Well I have both American and Canadian citizenships....beat that :)
You can not beat me :-)
Congrats to both of you :-)
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^ you can easily discard the useless one, yeah the Canadian one :p
Yah, one with the free medical care, negligible city crime and no us or them cowboys running our country.
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Let us see what ahppens when US starts attacking Al-Qaida in Pakistan because Pakistan won't do it itself. Let us see these guys' loyalties.
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Yah, one with the free medical care, negligible city crime and no us or them cowboys running our country.
Yes the one with 6 months waiting time to have a simple surgery done. And I am speaking from the experience. You must watch too much of Michael Moore.
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yep someone i know was going to bring their kid for a surgery to US because the surgery that was needed was considered not proper by the canadian health system, and would not be covered, if they ahd to pay out of pocket anyways then the credentials of canadian docs and facilities were sub par compared to US ones.
I do think that a safety net sort of univeral healthcare package is needed in US though
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Yes the one with 6 months waiting time to have a simple surgery done. And I am speaking from the experience. You must watch too much of Michael Moore.
ask me. my father got his open heart surgery done with in 15 day span. n ALLHUMDULLAH hez fine. i just visited him :)
(ppl from state even come to the doc who did surgery of ma dad)
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critical surgeries are given preference, non critical ones..yet still important ones make you wait for ages.
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for critical ones, i dont know about canada, but it sure takes time in states.
for better dont go in the stupid bhess of critical or non-critical.
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u must mean behes? not bhess :)
read up. not my sentiments, the study is a few years old but shows the problems canadian doctors have noted with the delays..as has candian medical association.
continue your..bhess with them :)
www.cnehealth.org/pubs/health_care_in_canada.pdf
For example, i*n its 2001 annual survey involving more than 2,500 doctors in twelve different specialties, the Canadian think tank, the Fraser Institute, found that, for patients requiring surgery, the total average waiting time from the initial visit to the family doctor through to surgery was sixteen weeks, a significant increase over the last year of the study. In every category, physicians felt waiting times had exceeded “clinically reasonable” delays *(Gratzer, 2002, pg 20).
**Canadians wait an average of 5 months for a cranial MRI scan; Americans just 3 days (Bell, et al, 1998). Indeed, Canada has fewer MRIs per capita than Iceland, Hungary, South Korea, and the Czech Republic (Gratzer, 2002, pg 53). Unsurprisingly, many choose to fly south to the US for diagnosis and treatment.
A key factor behind these statistics is the inability of the Canadian system to provide even equipment deemed basic, let alone new technology. *
Dozens of diagnostic and therapeutic products developed decades ago, in widespread use in other countries, are relatively unavailable to Canadians. One example is the SynchroMed implantable drug infusion pump, a therapeutic device that, when combined with an antispasmodic drug, can be used in patients with severe spasticity resulting from injury (spinal cord trauma, brain injury) or disease (multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy) to regain their mobility and independence, and to control their pain. Patients use SynchroMed, in Yugoslavia and Russia, saving their respective health care systems upwards of $100,000 per year in treatment costs. Canadian hospitals, however, refuse to provide patients with the $8,000 device (Gratzer, 2002, pg 83).
*An assessment in 2000 by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) argued that shortages have led to an “unconscionable” delay in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and debilitating bone and joint ailments *(Gratzer, 2002, pg 88). “We’re not talking about Ferraris and Lamborghinis here,” according to Dr Hugh Scully, the head of the CMA. “We’re talking about the Chevrolets and the Fords that are necessary to make it [diagnosis] accessible and reasonable for everybody1. To use Dr Phil Malpass’ phrase, medicare is “functionally obsolete”2.
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America is great, but citizen or not, they will always treat Pakistanis like would be terrorists at ever airport:(
So, should always remember to appreciate Pakistan, as ultimately, it is our home...
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^^ they only started treating them as terrorists after those idiot British Pakistanis blew themselves up in London
Before it was Arabs who used Pakistan and Afghanistan as a staging area for terrorism but now its Pakistanis themselves are involved in this
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k fraudz lets check whether we both stand on the same base to go on further behes!
can u innovate ny favorable side of the current canadian health system?
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just noting that whatever wait we have in US is negligible compared to what canadians have to deal with.