Everyone seems to have a story of someone waiting far too long for basic medical care in Canada.

Dean Simpson from Manitoba, who recently suffered a painful back injury, certainly does. In fact, the wait he faced for treatment was so long, he and his wife decided to fly to Mexico and pay out-of-pocket for his surgery. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time a family from Manitoba has considered drastic and expensive options to avoid the long wait for surgery in the province. And the data suggest there are many more untold stories of patients stuck on wait lists.

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According to the latest wait times data , last year in Manitoba, the median wait between referral from a family doctor to a specialist and receiving treatment was 37.9 weeks. This is substantially longer th

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