FALSE CREEK not seeing AMERICANS?
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FALSE CREEK not seeing AMERICANS?
"Sorry, we're not testing Americans at the moment."
WHAT?!?!? I thought this was a private clinic?
False Creek
(800)815-9338
Any other Americans have this problem?
WHAT?!?!? I thought this was a private clinic?
False Creek
(800)815-9338
Any other Americans have this problem?
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AlmostClever,
I saw an earlier posting by their Director who said they were looking into the liability insurance needed to cover testing of US citizens.
I run an IT consulting comapny and we need to carry huge liability insurance to do business for US clients; in fact, our regular professional liability carrier no longer supported businesses doing business for US clients and we had to switch. The history of lawsuits was making everyone a little jumpy, I guess.
Sandra
I saw an earlier posting by their Director who said they were looking into the liability insurance needed to cover testing of US citizens.
I run an IT consulting comapny and we need to carry huge liability insurance to do business for US clients; in fact, our regular professional liability carrier no longer supported businesses doing business for US clients and we had to switch. The history of lawsuits was making everyone a little jumpy, I guess.
Sandra
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Try Access MRI in Surrey, BC (a suburb of Vancouver). Somebody reported on here last week that they had a good experience, and a positive DX for CCSVI. It is also quite a bit cheaper than FC, I believe.
False Creek seems to me to have a bit of an attitude. At first, they were offering a bit of a deal to people with MS, but that seems to have evaporated since the demand exploded. They have also seemed to have had limited success in seeing CCSVI, though that may change now that Simka has attended there and shown them a few tricks.
They have seemed arrogant to me, and to say that they are not doing Americans has little to do with any real concern for Canadians. They are in it for the money, and whatever other reasons they may have had to become doctors. I wonder if they would give you treatment if you were struck by a car in front of their clinic, or say "sorry, yer not one of us". It makes me wonder how they could possibly accept Dr. Simka's expertise in training them - after all, he's Polish!.
Try Access. I think they were $1400 for the MRV, which is about $1450 US these days.
Best of luck.
False Creek seems to me to have a bit of an attitude. At first, they were offering a bit of a deal to people with MS, but that seems to have evaporated since the demand exploded. They have also seemed to have had limited success in seeing CCSVI, though that may change now that Simka has attended there and shown them a few tricks.
They have seemed arrogant to me, and to say that they are not doing Americans has little to do with any real concern for Canadians. They are in it for the money, and whatever other reasons they may have had to become doctors. I wonder if they would give you treatment if you were struck by a car in front of their clinic, or say "sorry, yer not one of us". It makes me wonder how they could possibly accept Dr. Simka's expertise in training them - after all, he's Polish!.
Try Access. I think they were $1400 for the MRV, which is about $1450 US these days.
Best of luck.
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The Access MRI facility has the 1.5T machine and False Creek has the 3.0T. Maybe that explains the price difference. Has anyone here gone to Access? Do they do the Doppler ultrasound too?
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I checked with them and they are only seeing Canadians with a referral from a Canadian doctor.Johnson wrote:
Try Access. I think they were $1400 for the MRV, which is about $1450 US these days.
Best of luck.
Back to BNAC and $4500....
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I'm sorry to read that. I am so glad that Poland, or Stanford, don't exhibit that same xenophobia. It is weird, because our publicly-funded hospitals accept foreign patients as a matter of course.AlmostClever wrote:I checked with them and they are only seeing Canadians with a referral from a Canadian doctor.Johnson wrote:
Try Access....
Back to BNAC and $4500....
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