>8 weeks seems like a long wait time to me though:
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>On average, admitted patients waited 7.9 weeks for treatment in March 2011, compared to eight weeks in March 2010. For outpatients it is just 3.7 weeks, compared to 3.8 weeks in 2010."

I thinks sometimes those waiting times depend on how flexible the patients are. For example, a couple of years ago our daughter was having difficulties breathing, the doctor sent us to an specialist, who saw my daughter within the same week, but she needed surgery, so the Dr told us that we could wait 6 months to get her surgery in Vancouver or have her surgery in Surrey (part of the greater Vancouver) in less than two weeks. Of course we did not have any problems traveling 20 km or so to cut the waiting period, but I know of some people who wouldn't have done it for they think that VGH (Vancouver General Hospital) is better than the Surrey Memorial Hospital, I do not know which one is better or from where they got that idea, but the truth is that the attention in SMH was excellent.