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I read something interesting today. Well, two things. My daughter recently had knee surgery. From the time the doctor ordered the MRI until her surgery, it was 3 weeks, 3 days. The MRI was was 2 days later, and the surgery could have been sooner, but we scheduled it for after school was out. I was curious as to how this might have played out in the UK.
In 2006, the average wait in the UK for an MRI was 7.5 weeks. That's the most recent data I could find. In May of 2009, there was an article with the UK happy that average wait times for surgery had dropped to just under 3 months. That means 19 weeks or so for the MRI and surgery. So instead of an early June surgery, she would have had in in late October, and therefore would be missing basically her entire basketball season (she still hasn't been cleared to play by her surgeon some 2.5 months later, but should be in another couple of weeks). That means late January, and the season ends in early February.
I realize that this isn't a life saving procedure, but it sure would suck if she missed her sophomore season because she couldn't get surgery in a timely fashion.
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