Waiting for healthcare services there cost the government, taxpayers and patients another $15 billion, says the Canadian Medical Association. Maximum wait time for an MRI, for example is 30 days but CMA says the average patient goes almost 60 days instead. In fact, patients who don't get a scan within that first 30 days often end up waiting more on the average of 85 days. In the interim, of course, associated medial expenses just continue to mount.
Meanwhile, in a story reported last month in DMBN, the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, has been fired. She was blamed for provoking an international medical crisis when she closed, for safety reasons, the Chalk River nuclear reactor, among the world's top producers of medical isotopes and the main supplier to the US medical community.

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