Socialized Medicine Part II

I am sure this will be a long series as this Socialized Medicine is just CRAP. I pray everyday our family stays healthy but I REALLY PRAY to God that nothing serious happens here or we are movin home, no questions asked lickety split fast boat to the States please!
Carson cannot seem to stay well. It is a bummer, it sucks, I hate seeing him sick but for the most part it seems to be just little viral infections that come and go. Or so we hope. A little cold here diarrhea there. He woke up Monday and was not feeling well so I made him an appt. Again, he sees a general or GP as a pediatrician is a specialist here. I hate this, I hate this b/c toddlers are not little people they are unique and things can get really bad for them in lightspeed compared to adults and I always found our pediatricians got that and made sick kids a concern and priority. So our appt was for 5:15. At lunch he seemed to have a hard time breathing, it definitely was not wheezing but it was labored but I could tell it was throat ish not lungish. I was not panicked but concerned. I called the Dr. to see if we could come in early. Now I must remind you we have a fancy non bulk billing Dr. I mentioned Carson was having trouble breathing she said "no I am sorry that is all we have we are booked, I guess you could go to the hospital if it gets bad, you could come in at 2 but I can not promise when we could see you. " Ahhh thank you for the hospital option, yes, the ER midday and nothing is bleeding or falling off, that seems rational to go there first instead of my Dr's office great plan. By all means please see the old bird with the corns before the sick child this is all very sensical, and yes, let me come and wait with my twins indefinitely, i'll bet you will find a place for me 'straight away' after listening to us recite Thomas books for two hours." I just said yes, thank you see you at 5:15 and watched Carson and the clock like a hawk until then. 5:15 rolled around, we see the Dr. who at least has more sense than the first two and knew that certain vaccinations were part of the WHO mandates. Kind of a big thing to know, but the first two did not. Car has a viral infection, no not allergies, yes it is possible to get sick this often, try "panadol" (tylenol) hot shower, fluids blah blah blah. Just to make sure lets get a throat culture to rule out whooping cough. For this we have to go to a pathologist, not like we think of them for cancer but like a Labcorp. Except you have to go for EVERYTHING! Urine, throat cultures, the most basic in office stuff you have to go to this awful place.
We arrive today around lunch, probably the worst time but...it is attached to a GP bulk billing place that runs as busy and crazy as a free clinic in the states, oh yeah thats what it is a free clinic, Dr.s peak their head out call a name two times... quick then assume the person is not there slam their door and thats that. Pity the old, slow moving or deaf soul. It is awful to me. The sign for the pathology tells me to take a # sit down and my number will be called. It is not the nice deli number situation, it is a card holder with laminated #'s and a dead bug inside. I pick my # not thinking to look through and see if it is actually in numerical order, I just focus on not getting dead bug wings with my #. We waited for a solid hour and no numbers were called. NONE! There is no one to ask. The front desk says they run separately and they have no idea, and pathology just has two pocket doors that say do not disturb testing in progress. Finally we left, who knows it may have been our turn in minutes but we were 15 and I saw a nice old lady with a 13 that is when I gave up. I hate this part of OZ. No pics for this section only frowny faces. Minus 10 for Oz on the score sheet. I hate to be political but you do not want this model coming to a Dr near you. Period. No matter what your bend this model does not work. I know all humans should have access to healthcare, I can not imagine having a sick loved one and not being able to access care for them but there has to be other answers than having the government run this, cuz it SUCKS when they do. REALLY SUCKS!