Access to surgery is not an election priority

Access to surgery is not improving. Governments refer to physician wait lists as though we are responsible for them and, together with hospital administrations, have put the blame for delays on surgeons. I have had patients get angry at me about how long they have to wait for a consultation; yet, I have no control over the wait list. Although it can be difficult to generalize a national initiative to specific provinces, there seems to have been no improvement at the local level, at least from my perspective