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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
OK, but a GP will not normally order an MRI in a specialized area. So using your link(thanks) it takes 35 weeks to get serviced by a specialist, plus 35 weeks to get an MRI. We are now up to almost a year and a half, that's quite a awhile for a test.
It sounds like the answer to all this is simply to go into an emergency clinic and that can skip the wait for a specialist. Now of course, its not an emergency, so......
I think we should agree that this is mediocre. Using your tools again, i checked out the wait times in London, England for full on knee surgery. Not only can you get an MRI, they do the full surgery in 18 weeks.
Lets just just agree its mediocre and not use terms like excellent, efficient, best in the world or anything like that. Cheap but mediocre.
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I don't mean to be a dick but I don't think you know what you're talking about. Family physicians can an order MRIs for lower back pain. And apparently they are ordering too many and half of the lower back MRIs ordered are "inappropriate or of questionable value".
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He noted that back pain is extremely common. “Almost all of us have back pain at some point. And generally, it is agreed in the medical literature and by the experts, imaging will not help in most cases,” he said.
“Most of the time, the treatment is the same – proper exercise and control of your weight,” he said. “Imaging helps only if we have something that might be surgical, like a true disc protrusion that is compressing a nerve route and it may benefit for patients to have that disc protrusion taken out.”
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http://m.theglobeandmail.com/life/he...service=mobile
Your year and a half claim is another exaggeration.