Anyone with more #BritishColumbia#GovernmentofCanada#legalities on this private medical clinic in #VictoriaBC that I was alerted about today?
Alerted by a friend who was told by her family physician that if she wanted to remain a patient that she needs to pay $1500 first.
That sounds illegal & in violation of federal health act.
Can anyone in BC please tell me more about legalities of this??
@chris I thought that was kinda illegal, when she started telling me about her/her husband's horrific & what they felt as blackmail billing.
They weren't expecting to be hit like that. She's been going to walk-ins since being told to pay $1500 to remain a patient. I'm trying to help her get a new family doc ATM. Both her & her husband are elderly & need a family doctor who will help them manage their health.
Weird question, but is anybody in my reach on Mastodon a native-speaker of Oceanic languages?
(that's Hawaiian, Samoan, Fijian, related or nearby Polynesian/Micronesian languages, which I say to clarify the question for other people in the middle who might be forwarding it, not because anyone who speaks one will need the clarification)
This is not for anything big; I'm just trying to get some POV about how folks refer to the alphabet & diacritic marks.
@BBCRD what is the current status of the baptools project?
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Who was Rabindranath Tagore and why is his work and teaching still so influential today?
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