This epidemic of uncertain care is an unintended outgrowth of a decades-long boom in elective surgery.
In 2001, patients requiring elective surgery could wait as long as 18 months for an operation.
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They also want to establish dedicated elective surgery centres, which, they suggest, private companies could run.
Even now, American Jews by the thousand spend weekends performing elective surgery on their automobiles.
Earlier, the PCT said it was investigating the "uncommon" deaths of two patients following elective surgery at the centre.
All elective surgery, a total of 10 operations, at the hospital were cancelled due to the threat of flooding.
If we need to attract people in to run some of these dedicated units working around elective surgery, let's do it.
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Ramone, who lived in Wilton, Connecticut, had elective surgery on Feb. 27 to prevent an aortic aneurysm, son Matt Ramone said.
Despite repeated government assurances, she fears companies will be able to cherry-pick activities where they can make money, such as elective surgery.
GPs are private contractors, and independently run treatment centres, introduced by Labour, provide around 5% of elective surgery requiring short hospital stays.
Still, people can wait for months, or even years, for elective surgery.
Your view is distorted and presumptuous on your idea about elective surgery.
Luigi Belcuore, from Morton Bagot in Warwickshire, had agreed to the trial while having elective surgery on his right knee to repair cartilage damage.
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Patients can rarely find this information before getting elective surgery, or when deciding to commit to a given institution for a long-term course of treatment.
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The military brass has convened a team of experts to look into possible remedies, ranging from hardy corrective goggles to improved contact lenses and elective surgery for specialists.
"There is a huge emergence of local Africans that chose to come to South Africa for elective surgery, whether it be breast reduction, tummy tucks, lipo, " she says.
In the NHS there have been trials in elective surgery with patients offered a choice of up to four hospitals for treatment, often assisted by a Patient Care Adviser.
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Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.
Nearly 20 billion was spent last year worldwide on a variety of medical procedures from fertility treatments to elective cardiac surgery, dental work, as well as cosmetic procedures.
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In their excellent new book, How Capitalism Will Save Us, Forbes Chairman Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames note that demand for mostly elective plastic surgery has rocketed sixfold in the last 15 years.
Hearing aids are considered elective, much like plastic surgery or liposuction.
He can do well in relatively low-cost elective matters like Lasik eye surgery or cosmetic dentistry, but not in the high-price emergency situations that cost so many times as much and that virtually all of us eventually face.
Citigroup Inc. offers the Citi Health Card, while Chase has ChaseHealthAdvance, a line of credit aimed at helping customers finance elective health procedures such as corrective eye surgery.
Patients pay cash for elective procedures like stomach-stapling or laser eye surgery, so these customers get in the habit of searching for bargains.
You see this problem in elective angioplasty heart procedures, in radiology, in back surgery.
CareCredit, an arm of General Electric Money Company, states clearly that the card is intended for patients seeking elective treatments, such as dental work or vision correction surgery, not for emergency care.
Since there is no third party involved in this realm of healthcare (because it is considered elective), no politician speaks of a drain by breast augmentation surgery on the economy.
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