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This includes people on a waitlist for hip operations. Are those life-threatening?

• xnx 10mo ago
  Also waiting for MRIs. Maybe in some circumstances waits for MRIs were delaying some other life-preserving intervention, but this article does not seem like useful information.
  • littlestymaar 10mo ago
    > but this article does not seem like useful information. It's basically a lobbying group to liberalize healthcare in Canada, so of course it's not useful information, its goal isn't to give people a good understanding of the reality, but to persuade people that the system is broken.
• nradov 10mo ago
  Not immediately life threatening, but they have a major impact on quality of life and overall healthspan. When people lose mobility their overall health and fitness tends to steadily decline, although it can take a long time until those deficits become clinically significant. This is why affluent Canadians often skip the waitlists and pay out of pocket for joint operations as medical tourists in the USA.