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IT’S TIME to clear up some misconceptions about Medical Coordinator at
surgical waiting lists at Lions Gate Hospital. L GH. “People waiting for

One of the biggest
misconceptions ts that if you
need surgery you are in for a
wait of months or even years.
In reality, only” elective
surgery has a waiting Ist.
Emergency surgery 1s per-
formed immediately and
suspicious situations 2re
given priority.

So when reference 1s made
to the ‘‘surgical waiting list’’
tos referring to elective

DAY surgery has speed-
ed up the waiting lists at
LGSH. This eye cataract
surgery, left, is one of
the many = operations
performed at the
hospital. Above, Mary
Jones is the booking
clerk for surpery at
LGH and has been for
the past 16 vears.

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general surgery will be in
within two or three weeks.
But if you are on a long
waiting list such as or-
thopedics for a particularly
busy surgeon you may wail a
much longer time

surgery which is the term us-
ed for condinons that require
surgery, but are not hfe
threatening. The misconcep-
tion of waiting for months
does not even apply across

: A long wanting list does not
the board tn the area of elec- . B ne a
necessarily mean an inability
tive surgery. It depends on ;
to secure a bed in the
kind of

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a surgery you hospital, as is usually assum.
need.

“Not everyone waits the
same length of time,’” says See page C2

Dr. James W. Corbett,

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