@chippydoo wrote "These guys don't get paid if they don't do their specific thing. Then they lose interest afterwards and try to generate billing with $400 dollar 5-minute blood work result appointments."

That doesn't apply in most of rest of the world, fortunately. Here (Ontario), family doctors are paid by the province based on the number of patients under their care, so extra appointments mean more work for no extra money — that's why I'm so grateful that my already-overworked family doctor reserved double appointments for me during the first year after my diagnosis.

And hospitals receive provincial funding based on the size of their cachement area, so keeping me in a hospital bed for 3 1/2 months from 2021–22 didn't provide them with any extra revenue (just the opposite: it meant that in addition to my medical treatment, they had to pay for all my meals, prescription medicine, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, etc. as long as I was an in-patient).