Canada

I know the walk in can be done, but even that also see increase over time. I remember during early covid I can book telephone calls same day, but now if you want to book online/call then it's ~1 to 2 days. For same day it only works if the clinic doesn't take advanced booking for walk-ins and you have to get in the queue quickly in the morning. I use medimap quite frequently for myself and it's already concerning. I need refills every 6 months basically, sometimes the walk-in call only willing to give me 3 months so that's why I observe gradual increase of time required for booking.

Then when shit hits the fan(my son got a stomach flu ~2 months ago), and you literally hit every door shut in your face(fully booked everywhere). I eventually have to call 811 the nurse line, then they redirect me to some local emergency place that triage like hospital ER, got the doctor to check and teach us how to deal with it.

I can imagine someone with actual emergency but get turned away and miss the treating window and died. I just hope our health care don't go the way of US, aka pay or you die, approach.