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Yeah, yeah, and then you're on this because I know about, I used to have the bad cluster headaches and I go to ER. I think, yeah, and I've had to wait 12 hours and things, so I know what that's about. Yeah, they're going to put the shock victim before you, of course, but it makes sense. I agree to it. But you know what's funny is I think most people will do that because it's either in the middle of the night and they can't really get in the hospital, so it's one way to do it or now there's an increasing thing now where people really don't have family doctors, so their only way to be seen in any fashion is to check into one of those places. That's why in Toronto it's divided up. They also have the dental emergency, so you don't jam up like the Toronto ER with that nonsense even if it is four in the morning. Oh dude, I haven't had a family doctor in over 20 years, but I know what a walk-in clinic looks like, you know, and like I say if I'm not bleeding and it ain't broken, I don't need to go to a hospital. I can deal with a cold. I can deal with sniffles. If I'm not thinking about calling an ambulance, it'll wait until morning and I'll go to a walk-in. If more people would do stuff like that, our ERs wouldn't be overbooked and you wouldn't have to wait 12 hours to see somebody when you actually needed to see somebody. Everybody is just, you know, I need it and I need it now, like with your cluster headaches. Instead of waiting the 12 hours, you could have been seen in like 45 minutes, gotten some oxygen probably is what they probably would have given you. I know it helps a lot with cluster headaches because I deliver a lot of oxygen to people with cluster headaches and you would have been feeling much better much faster. It's our system, it's overloaded because of abuse and misuse, not because the system is broken. This is repeater station kilo kilo 7, November Quebec November. Later on, wow, it turned out to be a lot more internal. I had it fixed. It was my teeth because at the time I was in my teens, I still had my wisdom teeth and they were bothering me. As soon as I got those taken out, I never had any more cluster headaches again. But what's funny, yeah, because they also rot your gums and that's going to cause you a lot of pain. Well, another thing I would use when I didn't want to use the ER and it was the middle of the night, I just used the phone book doctors. They charge for each visit and if it's something important like a prescription, that's the move that I'll pull to do that. I've never, as far as I know, most walk-in clinics, you have to have like, well, you have to have a doctor. You can't just walk in and just be seen like some of the places in the states where the ghetto hood rats will walk in there, get their little BD shot and then they're back out on the street. You can't just do that in Canada. If I go, there's a clinic place on Main Street here in Vancouver, I got to show my contact information with my family doctor back in Toronto or I wouldn't be seen here if I need anything. You don't need to have a family doctor to go into a walk-in here. All you need is your health card. Unfortunately being out of province, you'll have to pay for your visit. When I've been in Quebec and when I was in Cornwall, I never had a doctor. I went to the local walk-in clinic, handed in my card, my health card, waited my turn, told them what was wrong and went in and saw a doctor. Don't need to have a family doctor, that's the whole idea of the walk-in clinics. It's not like the free clinics that the US has, those are totally different. There are a few of those around too. Montreal's got one, I think there's actually a very small one here in North Bay but it's mostly a needle exchange place, that's more or less all they do. But not a walk-in clinic man, you don't need a doctor.