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Originally Posted by Yamer
Like claiming people wait 18 months to get a knee replacement?
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Wait, are you suggesting it's faster than that? I understand that in one case, someone had theirs done sooner, but this was not even close to my wife's experience. First, they take every angle to try to talk you out of the surgery in the first place. Then you get referred to the surgeon, and the appointment there is somewhere around the 15-18 month mark. Then, you have to wait until the surgery.
I understand that this is "elective" because it's not life-threatening or things of that nature. But the impact on people's quality of life cannot be debated either. And this is the issue with that system today. We have these elective surgeries that people want done, because the problems they're having are an enormous impact on their lives, despite that surgery being "optional". I put those words in quotes because it is questionable how optional those surgeries are for the individual. You can live without the knee replacement, you just happen to be in your forties and can't walk down a flight of stairs easily or a slight incline. So, you're not dying from this, and I suppose that is why it's elective.