Vaccinations at Pharmacies, particularly Tetanus

[TorontoBuilder]

Sounds like you need a drive down my way, step on a nice clean steralized nail, and go to any of the country hospitals for a tetanus shot. In and out in an hour unless there is a car accident someplace nearby.

yeah I'm sure I could have driven to a rural hospital and been treated fast.

This experience just has me more determined to assemble an emergency medical kit that I can self administer anything I need short of major surgery.

 

[jcdammeyer]

Apparently here in BC not only can the Pharmacists give the TD shots but they are also publicly funded.

 

[Susquatch]

yeah I'm sure I could have driven to a rural hospital and been treated fast.

This experience just has me more determined to assemble an emergency medical kit that I can self administer anything I need short of major surgery.

Wise to do that.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

The saga is over.

I got the TD vaccine this morning.

In speaking with the Dr, she mentioned that I was good still and didn't need a new jab until June. I mentioned that on Saturday when I called their medical receptionist told me that the recommendation was to get a shot if you had a rusty puncture and hadn't had a jab in 5 years, and said I should go to walk in clinic.

I said that I countered by saying that I had read that the effects of the vaccine last much longer than the 10 year guideline. The receptionist said on no, I strongly suspected that the person was misinformed. This is why I didn't travel outside of Toronto to chase down getting the shot, or choose to go to the ER and wait 18 hours. The Dr then said that their staff were not supposed to offer such advice.

In the end, I got the vaccine because I was there, and now I have extra peace of mind after having a rusty screw stuck in my foot for about a minute, and for all the other cuts I shall surely get between now and June.

 

[djberta]

This thread came up right on time as I need to go get mine. I drilled in to my finger yesterday with a driver bit so I need to go get the shot, its been about 18 years so I am likely really due.

 

[MrWhoopee]

I am heartened to hear that the Canadian health care system is nearly as complicated and illogical as ours here in the U.S., although we pay twice as much for it. We get all of our vaccines at the pharmacy, but there seems to be a shortage of pharmacists. Our preferred pharmacy has restricted hours as a result.

Being in undeservedly good health, I was without a doctor after I moved from my hometown to the mountains of northern California. My wife, wishing to keep me around for awhile, insisted that I needed to be getting regular check-ups. She was working in health care, so had the inside info on the good doctors in our area. She identified one internist (G.P.), but he was no long accepting new patients. A friend of mine was one of his patients and, as luck would have it, my friend died. My wife was on the phone as soon as we got word of his passing. I now have a very competent, thorough, old-school doctor.

 

[Mcgyver]

I went to the walk in clinic a few weeks ago for 5 stitches. I got a call 2 weeks later from my doctors office. I guess they get back charged. I had no idea!

Stunning. I've all but bugged of the Canadian medical system. I can't take it anymore. My GP passed away awhile ago, local clinic closes not at closing time but whenever the waiting room has enough in it to keep them busy until closing time. You go fight the traffic to get there and hours before closing and are turned away. Emerge is a humiliation. I resolved to lie in bed this week until either my throat agony lessened so I could eat, or I died. Lost 9 lbs Tues - Sat.

To make it worse, there is a very effective pill that reduces by 80% of the symptoms of Covid. But you can't get it unless you are 65+. What happened to freedom? There is a legal product I badly need, I have the money and seller wants to sell, but the government interferes, oppressive imo , and dictates that I cannot buy it. And the sheeple go baa, it's the the government must be right, etc.

My current strategy is walk over to emerge at 3:00 a.m. for anything serious. Last time I did so was for any eye issue. 1/2 a dozen giggly girls at the station and not a soul in the place but them and me. Still took three hours to see a doctor. He misdiagnosed it but was sharp enough to know it wasn't his expertise and hooked me into the eye clinic who saw me when they opened a few hours later). The place had all the compassion, urgency and care you'd expect from the DMV.

I swear they in large part keep you waiting as part of a PR policy, must have the public always thinking we are just holding on and desperate for funds. Like years ago when one of our kids was born - they introduced a new austerity measure, bring your own diapers ...... as were were ushered into (25 years ago) a $300, 000 birthing suite ( i asked).

I don't think i'd want the US model, but it sure seems like ours delivers inferior care.

 

[jcdammeyer]

The saga is over.

I got the TD vaccine this morning.

In speaking with the Dr, she mentioned that I was good still and didn't need a new jab until June. I mentioned that on Saturday when I called their medical receptionist told me that the recommendation was to get a shot if you had a rusty puncture and hadn't had a jab in 5 years, and said I should go to walk in clinic.

I said that I countered by saying that I had read that the effects of the vaccine last much longer than the 10 year guideline. The receptionist said on no, I strongly suspected that the person was misinformed. This is why I didn't travel outside of Toronto to chase down getting the shot, or choose to go to the ER and wait 18 hours. The Dr then said that their staff were not supposed to offer such advice.

In the end, I got the vaccine because I was there, and now I have extra peace of mind after having a rusty screw stuck in my foot for about a minute, and for all the other cuts I shall surely get between now and June.

My Pharmacist says 10 years.

 

[Doggggboy]

My Pharmacist says 10 years.

Pharmacists here say 10 years for general protection, 5 years for bites or dirty, deep punctures like nails or punji sticks.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Stunning. I've all but bugged of the Canadian medical system. I can't take it anymore. My GP passed away awhile ago, local clinic closes not at closing time but whenever the waiting room has enough in it to keep them busy until closing time. You go fight the traffic to get there and hours before closing and are turned away. Emerge is a humiliation. I resolved to lie in bed this week until either my throat agony lessened so I could eat, or I died. Lost 9 lbs Tues - Sat.

To make it worse, there is a very effective pill that reduces by 80% of the symptoms of Covid. But you can't get it unless you are 65+. What happened to freedom? There is a legal product I badly need, I have the money and seller wants to sell, but the government interferes, oppressive imo , and dictates that I cannot buy it. And the sheeple go baa, it's the the government must be right, etc.

My current strategy is walk over to emerge at 3:00 a.m. for anything serious. Last time I did so was for any eye issue. 1/2 a dozen giggly girls at the station and not a soul in the place but them and me. Still took three hours to see a doctor. He misdiagnosed it but was sharp enough to know it wasn't his expertise and hooked me into the eye clinic who saw me when they opened a few hours later). The place had all the compassion, urgency and care you'd expect from the DMV.

I swear they in large part keep you waiting as part of a PR policy, must have the public always thinking we are just holding on and desperate for funds. Like years ago when one of our kids was born - they introduced a new austerity measure, bring your own diapers ...... as were were ushered into (25 years ago) a $300, 000 birthing suite ( i asked).

I don't think i'd want the US model, but it sure seems like ours delivers inferior care.

sorry you couldnt get the antiviral...

as an ex-pat american, I can say as much as our system may suck at times, it is infinitely better than what all but the wealthiest of my US relatives have experienced. With the exception of when they were in military. But you shouldn't need to join the military to get healthcare.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

Pharmacists here say 10 years for general protection, 5 years for bites or dirty, deep punctures like nails or punji sticks.

Yeah, that is a very old recommendation and likely to be revised, but vaccines are cheap so why take any risks since not everyone responds to vaccines to the same extent. Especially if you have to take your vaccine on emergency basis while you are on immunosuppressants.

 

[jcdammeyer]

Yeah, that is a very old recommendation and likely to be revised, but vaccines are cheap so why take any risks since not everyone responds to vaccines to the same extent. Especially if you have to take your vaccine on emergency basis while you are on immunosuppressants.

Linda has a lot of continuing ed courses to do each year to maintain her license. If for some reason there is a change to the 10 year period she'd likely be the first to know. Often way before Doctors and Nurses.