While surgical wait times seem to continue to increase in Saskatchewan, a Round Lake man has a rather simple solution; go to Mexico for your operation. Walter White waited seven months to see a surgeon to operate on his shoulder, then went to Mexico and was under the knife in less than three working days after he got to the hospital, and for what he estimates to be less than 20 percent of the cost to the tax base here. White says doctors in Mexico even noticed a dying bone in his wife’s arm, and told them to see her doctor here in Saskatchewan. According to ministry of health stats, 90 percent of patients waiting for shoulder surgery can wait up to 62 weeks before their operation is complete here in Regina.

[ckrm aug 6 2019]