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Healthcare: How Long Do Patients Have To Wait? (cdn.statcdn.com)

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 3 months ago

and its not like you just go to non emergency surgery. there is a generally a process of identifying the need with the primary care that requires multiple visits so if the primary care takes a long time it effectively makes the non emergency surgery take longer to actually get done. This is even the case in emergency cases where it takes the primary to identify you have something very very wrong with you.