A new online platform helps connect patients with private surgeons throughout Canada

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As far too many people in this country know, wait times for any kind of surgery are getting longer and longer.

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The Fraser Institute’s latest wait times report noted that Canada’s median time between a referral and treatment is now 30 weeks — the longest ever recorded and a 222 per cent increase from 1993.

But those on the front lines, like Ontario family doctor Sean Haffey, know that it can take up to a year just for patients to see some surgeons, and up to two years for treatment.

The public system may not be crumbling, Haffey said in an interview with the National Post, but it is buckling.

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