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If you need emergency care, you don't have to wait (UK). My grandfather had a fall recently where he hit his head, and had a brain CT within two hours (he fell about 1am; he was admitted, assessed, treated, and discharged by 6am). A family member had an urgent referral for a mammogram last Thursday, and was assessed and given the results today. Routine GPs appointments can generally be gotten within a week, and emerg…
My wait for a routine MRI is about 2 hours.... My wait for a specialist referral is 2-3 days and any delay is usually on my end. There are just some things the US healthcare system accidentally does much better than Europe.
So you want to tell me that from the point when you ring your healtcare provider saying "I want to get an MRI done", to you lying down on the table being scanned the time is around 2 hours?